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...country. For the next 16 years, identifying de Waal as an “enemy,” the Sudanese government banned the activist from returning. He could only make occasional visits to the rebel-held territories.ENEMY OF THE STATEIn 2004, when the African Union (AU) convened the Darfur peace talks, de Waal was approached about a position as an adviser to the mediation.For a year, the Sudanese government wouldn’t allow de Waal to take the post—they still considered him an enemy of the government.But in December 2005, he officially joined the negotiation team...
...began her presentation on the situation in Uganda by screening a short documentary that captured the horrific conditions of concentration camps in Norther Uganda. The film provided alarming statistics on the lack of access to water and basic health care. “Unlike the situation in Darfur, the Ugandan crisis has gone on for twenty years,” Boston said. “Nine percent of the population is trapped in these camps, where 95 percent of the residents live in abject poverty, where thousands die every month of disease and malnutrition, where the children are forced...
...rights, with heavy moderation from Swanee Hunt, who runs the Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program. The speakers—Veronica Louis Renzi Tambura, Kamilia Ibrahim Kuku Kura, Buthiana Abbas Kambal Hassan, and Safaa Elagib Adam—came from different regions, including Darfur, Khartoum, and southern Sudan. Tambura, the first and most fluent of the speakers, spoke of how women obtained a 25-percent quota in Sudan’s government by “threatening to remove politicians from office” with the country’s “majority of women...
...will even whisper about such things. It's easy to see why. NATO intervention would be aimed at saving Muslim lives, but that wouldn't stop al-Qaeda from screaming about the West's recolonization of the Islamic world. Bringing stability to a region as complicated and brutalized as Darfur could take years, if not decades. U.N. peacekeepers still patrol Kosovo today, and that's an easier case...
...could fill volumes detailing the geopolitical reasons America should abandon Darfur to its fate. The argument for military action, by contrast, rests on just two tarnished words. Last week a small crowd gathered in Kigali, Rwanda. "If you don't protect the people of Darfur today," said a man named Freddy Umutanguha, "never again will we believe you when you visit Rwanda's mass graves, look us in the eye and say 'Never again.'" Try offering a geopolitical answer to that...