Double-edged Sword: Vigilantes in African Counter-insurgencies
Executive Summary As weak African states face growing insurgencies, they do what weak states tend to do: subcontract certain security...
International Crisis Group 1
Oct 7, 2017
Cholera in Sudan is Now Endemic–and yet the UN’s World Health Organization says nothing
Cholera in Sudan now has a deadly grip, continuing to re-emerge in areas thought free of the disease. It is pandemic in all eighteen of...
Sudan - Research, Analysis, and Advocacy 1
Oct 4, 2017
First global pledge to end cholera by 2030
Health officials from around the world are meeting in France to commit to preventing 90% of cholera deaths by 2030. The disease, which...
BBC News
Oct 3, 2017
The Twists and Turns along China’s Belt and Road
“The project of the century” is how Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi touted the Belt and Road Initiative to the world when addressing the...
International Crisis Group 1
Oct 2, 2017
How to Ensure a Credible, Peaceful Presidential Vote in Kenya
I.Overview Kenya must hold repeat presidential elections before 1 November, after the country’s Supreme Court annulled a first vote that...
International Crisis Group 1
Oct 2, 2017
More news on deaths, injuries from Kalma IDP camp, South Darfur
Despite the mounting death toll from the murderous attack on peaceful, unarmed demonstrators at Kalma camp (September 22, 2017, South...
Sudan - Research, Analysis, and Advocacy 1
Sep 29, 2017
A New Roadmap to Make U.S. Sudan Sanctions Relief Work
I.Overview By 12 October, the U.S. will decide whether to permanently lift economic and trade sanctions it suspended since January 2017....
International Crisis Group 1
Sep 29, 2017
US urges South Sudan to seize last chance to save peace deal
By Edith M. Lederer U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley urged South Sudan’s leaders on Tuesday to seize “the last chance” to salvage the 2015...
Washington Post
Sep 26, 2017
Yet Again, Kalma camp (South Darfur) for displaced persons is the scene of deadly violence by Kharto
Yet again, Kalma camp for displaced persons—just outside Nyala, capital of South Darfur, has been the scene of deadly violence by...
Sudan - Research, Analysis, and Advocacy 1
Sep 22, 2017
The Long Arm of Ethiopia Reaches for Those Who Fled
By Felix Horne “Wako” fled Ethiopia for Kenya in 2012, after his release from prison. He had been locked up for two years after...
Human Rights Watch
Sep 20, 2017
Cholera Epidemic in Sudan
Dear Dr. Ghebreyesus, We wish to kindly draw your attention to the cholera epidemic currently ravaging many parts of the Republic of...
Abdelbagi Jibril,
Sep 19, 2017
As the death toll climbs in Sudan, officials shy away from the ‘cholera’ label
By Glenn Kessler It's rare to have two U.S. agencies that report to the same person disagree. But this a matter of international...
Washington Post
Sep 16, 2017
