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Saturday, May 27, 2006

Eric Reeves says only NATO military action can save Darfur

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Further to an earlier entry here at Sudan Watch, note the following excerpt from concluding paragraph of Eric Reeves' latest opinion pi...

What does warmongering 'humanitarian' Eric 'disingenuous' Reeves want for Darfur and Sudan, does he (or anybody else) know?

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Eric Reeves certainly has a way with words (its how he makes his living, he's a professor of English) but his arguments and rationale so...

British PM Blair calls for major reforms to modernise UN

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May 27, 2006 Ottawa Citizen report - UN 'not legitimate' now, Blair says - excerpt: "A Security Council which has France as a ...
Friday, May 26, 2006

British Govt statement on the Sudanese Govt's decision to agree to a UN Technical Assessment Mission for Darfur

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UK Department FID Press Release May 25, 2006 via ReliefWeb: The Government of Sudan today agreed to allow a joint African Union/United Nati...
Thursday, May 25, 2006

UN Security Council to visit Sudan on 5 June, 2006

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The UN Security Council with all its members, headed by the envoy of Britain, Sir Emyr Jones Parry, is due to begin a five-day visit to Suda...

United Nations Security Council Report of the Secretary-General on Darfur 19 May 2006

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Brief intermission to digest this report. Note, number 4 for starters. I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to para...

Joint UN-AU assessment team to visit Darfur within days, UN envoy says

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Further to reports today by Reuters, Bloomberg, Associated Press, BBC and UPI noted here earlier, a report by UN News Centre, just in, conf...

Sudan agrees on UN/AU Darfur assessment mission

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Reuters report Opheera McDoom, just in - excerpt: Sudan has agreed to allow an African Union-UN assessment mission into the country ahead o...

UN's Brahimi says his talks in Khartoum going well: UN and Sudanese govt had reached a "joint vision"

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Reuters report (Opheera McDoom) May 25, 2006 - Sudan's parliament divided over Darfur UN troops - excerpt: Brahimi, after two days of t...

Sudan suggests watchdog role for the UN force in Darfur

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According to an unsourced article at the Sudan Tribune, Sudanese government yesterday said it would not permit the deployment of Internatio...

Chinese peacekeepers in Wau, South Sudan - near Darfur

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Somehwere in the archives of Sudan Watch are several news reports that quote the late John Garang as saying he would never allow Chinese pea...

Kenya to train 160 Sudanese soldiers on demining

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The Kenyan Government will in the next eight weeks train 160 Sudanese soldiers on how to tackle land mines menace, Kenya Times reported May...

Union of NGOs in Arab states urged

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Excerpt from Gulf Times May 25, 2006: Releasing a communique at the end of a three-day seminar on 'The role of NGOs in sustainable deve...

South Sudan: Violence in Jonglei, Upper Nile forces Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) withdrawal

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Thanks to a Sudan Watch reader from MSF in Europe (aka Doctors Without Borders) for emailing me the following news report by IRIN May 23, 2...

Dinkas fleeing war to face starvation - Beliel Camp, South Darfur - New IDP camp at Nyamlell in Aweil, Northern Bahr el Ghazal

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The Dinka ethnic community in the southern Sudanese state of Northern Bahr el Ghazal, comprises the counties of Aweil North, East, South and...

Pictures of the $100 laptop: 1st working model of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)

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From May 23, 2006 blog entry by Pablo Halkyard at PSD blog - The World Bank Group: Pictures from the unveiling of the first working protot...
Wednesday, May 24, 2006

NATO says AU asks for more Darfur help

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"The AU has asked NATO to extend its support. NATO has already taken a decision to be willing to do it, so that will now go forward,...

Khartoum talks fail to meet UN Security Council deadline: Sudan is now in violation of international law

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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's veteran troubleshooter Lakhdar Brahimi and UN peacekeeping chief Hedi Annabi began talks in Khartoum o...
Tuesday, May 23, 2006

UN chief talks with Sudan's president on UN peacekeeping operation - Troops, by themselves, cannot be the full answer

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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has spoken with the Sudanese President seeking support for the deployment of a UN team assessing conditions ...

Advisory group of new UN disaster relief fund CERF holds inaugural session

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UN News Centre May 23, 2006 reports that Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown welcomed the Group members into their new positions an...