‘A clean near-term battlefield victory is unlikely in the present conditions,’ Eiad Husham.
Seven Questions on Sudan’s Conflict and Politics
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What interests lie behind the Sudan-South Sudan conflict? | by Gavin Jackson
Following the declaration of independence by South Sudan – which is dependent on financial and military aid from American imperialism – tensions between Khartoum and Juba have been steadily ramped up over the past year and have brought death and destruction both sides...
“Darfur Debate Ends With More Questions Than Answers”
In no less than 24 hours since the much anticipated Mamdani-Prendergast debate on Darfur at Columbia University on April 14, bloggers have run amok with all kinds of biased summaries of the event. Reading the Twitter and blog posts, it really sounded like there wasn’t...
Civilizing Projects, Tribal Administration and the Color Khaki
When Mohamed al Dabi, retired general, was sent as Presidential Representative to Geneina in January 1999 he insisted that he be allowed to don his army uniform. ‘The people will only respect me if I wear khaki,’ al Dabi said. Khaki was the color of the British...
Mamdani Responds to His Critics II
In this second part, I intend to focus on the ideas, practices and politics of the Save Darfur movement. More specifically, I shall respond to three types of criticisms: (a) that I did not think it necessary to speak to responsible persons from Save Darfur before...
The Darfur diversion: “Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror”
The Electronic Intifada, 8 June 2009 In Errol Morris's 2004 film The Fog of War, former US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara recalls General Curtis LeMay, the architect of the fire-bombings of Japan during World War II, saying that "if we'd lost the war, we'd all have...
Mamdani: Teenage Activists of ‘Save Darfur’ – Child Soldiers of the West
Once again, Mahmood Mamdani provoked a fervid debate among scholars, activists and other people concerned with politics in Africa. After his controversially discussed comments about Zimbabwe, Mamdani (in his book Saviors and Survivors) accuses the ‘Save Darfur’...