http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/site/index/ en U.S. Department of State 2012-02-14T01:02:06+00:00
While the points of agreement reached in the bilateral negotiations all seem to be positive steps toward the goal of implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), the fact that they come so late in the life of the six-year interim period is a cause for concern. Given that the South has not yet received the benefit of important promises made in the CPA, including security measures such as Joint Integrated Units and the much-needed oil wealth that was to be shared between North and South, it now stands at a serious disadvantage with the referendum just 14 months away. It is also hard to imagine how the parties have waited four and a half years to assess national laws for conformity with CPA obligations. It's the fourth quarter here, and the clock is ticking.]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/sudan_progress/ Tue Sep 29, 2009
GoKnow Darfur......

Isn't it a little naive to be shaking hands on Darfur/Sudan...so soon after the horrendous genocide, refugee diaspora, and displacement of a region? Cohesion and unification are products only reached after the perpetrators are brought to justice, and the victims have been made whole. Are we risking complicity in the greater crime of self-delusion?]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/sudan_progress/ Thu Sep 03, 2009