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Sudan in Crisis

… street protests have taken place across the Republic of Sudan. Protestors targeted the regime of Sudan’s longtime president, Omar al-Bashir, winning his … Watch calls those elections fraudulent. Protesters near the Sudanese Army headquarters in Khartoum in April 2019. On …
A crowd of protesters at night in Sudan

Sudan: Popular Protests, Today and Yesterday

… In April 2019, four months of sustained protests throughout Sudan culminated in the ousting of President Omar al-Bashir, … International observers have suggested that the uprising in Sudan represents a second “Arab Spring.” Yet perhaps more … important is the long history of popular protest within Sudan, which have twice in the past toppled autocratic …
 SPLM rally in Southern Sudan, 2010. (Image by U.S. Institute of Peace)

Tribal Militias in Sudan

… The war between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary militia Rapid … bombardment has destroyed the feeble infrastructure of Sudan ’s capital city, Khartoum.  On one level, the war … failed to reach an agreement on the future governance of Sudan and how to integrate the RSF and the SAF.  Tensions …

'The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis': Understanding the Darfur Conflict

… For the past four years, the remote Sudanese region of Darfur has been the scene of a bloody … a chronic problem of bad governance that has plagued the Sudan since its independence from British colonial rule in … A Profile The Darfur region lies in the western part of the Sudan (Africa's largest country), near the borders with …

Who Owns the Nile? Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia’s History-Changing Dam

… the Texas security company, revealing Egyptian and Sudanese plans to build an airstrip for bombing a dam in the Blue Nile River Gorge in Ethiopia. The Egyptian and Sudanese governments denied the reports. Whether or not … and conflicts in the Nile River Basin. Downriver Egypt and Sudan argue that they have historic rights to the water upon …

All Politics is Local: Understanding Boko Haram

… in the region over the following centuries. The Sudanic Belt, or Sahel, spanning from Senegal to Eritrea  This region, known as the Sudanic Belt, encompasses the bio-geographic zone south of … about 1480 to 1520 was a time of active Islamization in the Sudanic belt. During this period many scholars from Mali, …
people holding sign - from today our identity is Southern and African not Arabic and Islamic

Crisis in Darfur: Ethnic Cleansing

… cleansing means and a mini lecture on the background of Sudan and Darfur, Sudan. Once students have the background information, the … and their president started and sustained this conflict in Sudan and that the ethnic cleansing has been brutal to its …

Avoiding the Scourge of War: The Challenges of United Nations Peacekeeping

… 2011, the United Nations welcomed its newest member. South Sudan's January referendum on independence and subsequent peaceful separation from Sudan following years of violence marked a high point for … coherent peacekeeping agenda. The limited success in South Sudan offers some hope, but the Cȏte d'Ivoire and Somalia …
A U.S. FBI agent sorts through rubble. (Photo by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation)

The 1998 East African Embassy Bombings

… Operation Infinite Reach, launched against targets in Sudan and Afghanistan on August 20. In Sudan, the United States used thirteen Tomahawk cruise … out to be a legitimate factory that produced nearly half of Sudan’s medicines and had no connection to Osama bin Laden. …

Pirates of Puntland, Somalia

… 6 antiaircraft guns, and ammunition to Kenya and Southern Sudan, took five months. The crews survived their ordeal, … (as well as Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, Russia and Mexico) in the "axis of upheaval." These … failed state. In marked contrast to Ethiopia or Nigeria or Sudan [ On Sudan and the Darfur Conflict, see this February …
In Mauritania, Aissata Abdoul Diop shows how the maize ears have dried in the drought stricken garden, 2012. 

Hunger Is Not Eradicated: The Food Crisis in Africa

… Central African Republic, Somalia , Ethiopia , and South Sudan —have entered a polycrisis that will be difficult to … 10% of a population of perhaps 10 million people died. In Sudan 2 million people died from starvation and war.   In …

A New World Order? Africa and China

… it to seek oil supplies from African countries including Sudan, Chad, Nigeria, Angola, Algeria, Gabon, Equatorial … is more willing to help Africa than the Western world. Sudan and Zimbabwe , generally considered the worst human … affairs” also appeals to some African countries such as Sudan and Zimbabwe that are considered “rogue” regimes …
Hiroshima after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city.

Terrorism: A New Kind of War?

… Department identifies Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria as state sponsors of terrorism. Terrorism is …
Three Young White Men and a Black Woman (1632) by Christiaen van Couwenbergh.

A Question of Power, Not Sex

… Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone and the Darfur region of the Sudan.   There is a long history of sexual abuse and …
Kosovo is located to the south of Serbia.

The Perils of Breaking Away

… in secessionist regions such as Georgia’s South Ossetia and Sudan’s Darfur. What’s needed is an agreed set of principles …
Protesters with signs in support of immigrants: "We are all here thanks to immigrants", "If you don't want immigrants, stop destabilizing their countries"; "Defend DACA"

Honduras, TPS, and U.S. Policy

… with almost 200,000 Salvadoreans and also people from the Sudan, from Nepal, from Haiti, all of whom are being now …