They come at first light with shovels and sacks, hunched shadows praying for glimmers across a stingy land. These men with torn clothes and sandaled feet don’t ask for much, just enough gold to head home feeling blessed beneath the blazing sky of northern Sudan. (more)
After 17 months of diplomacy, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice was only able to get 12 of the 15 countries on the United Nations Security Council to vote to place increased sanctions on the Islamic Republic’s illegal pursuit of nuclear weapons. Yesterday, on Fox News Sunday, Rice jumped to defend the Obama Administration’s lackluster performance by claiming that previous Iran resolutions were not unanimous during the Bush Administration and that there were “abstentions”. Her strategy to minimize the Bush team’s performance in order to make her own poor performance look better isn’t factual. After so much hype about President Barack Obama’s foreign policy engagement strategy, the Obama UN resolution was remarkably weak, took too long to get and received less support than Bush’s team got in producing FIVE Security Council resolutions on Iran. (more)
When I heard that Murray was back, I called immediately. He told me to come on over for he had a wonderful story to share. We settled into is his den with large tumblers of Talisker scotch, the drug of choice of in our part of the Capital city. (more)
WASHINGTON — Former NBA center Manute Bol is hospitalized with severe kidney trouble and a painful skin condition after falling critically ill while returning home from helping fight election corruption in his native Sudan. (more)
London, England (CNN) — Amongst the slums, the sand and the incessant heat, it is an unexpected vision of paradise: lush, copiously watered greens peppered with pristinely kept bunkers and a freshly built clubhouse. (more)
The International Monetary Fund board has approved a $40 billion bailout for Greece, almost one year after the Senate rejected my amendment to prohibit the IMF from using U.S. taxpayer money to bailout foreign countries. (more)
In November 2007, Gillian Gibbons, a British schoolteacher in Sudan found herself behind bars in a Sudanese prison sentenced to 15 days after being found guilty under Section 125 of the Sudanese Criminal Act, for “insulting religion, inciting hatred and showing contempt for religious beliefs”. She had committed the crime of allowing one of her pupils to name a teddy bear Mohammed after the first name of one of the popular students in class. Little did she know that she also committed the criminal offense of maligning the Prophet Mohammed. She was spared 40 lashes because she apologized to the shar’iah court and after intervention by British leaders was given a presidential pardon by Omar Bashir after seven days in prison. (more)
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is often lauded by the Arab world for championing the Palestinian cause. However, after stumbling into the world of Sudanese politics, Carter has lost all credibility. Inexplicably, Carter gave his blessing (with perfunctory caveats) to a rigged election that has handed victory to a genocidal war criminal who granted safe haven to Osama bin Laden in the 1990s. (more)
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has been declared the winner of this month’s landmark elections, despite facing war crimes charges over Darfur. (more)
Since winning freedom in 1776 and beginning the American journey under our Constitution in 1789, the United States has been a beacon for individual rights to life and liberty. A nation as complex as ours has many heroes, many struggles and shining examples of humanity, modernity and compassion. From the men and women who serve across the globe wearing the uniform of our Armed Forces, to those in Clandestine service within the Intelligence apparatus, and Americans who give their heart and souls through humanitarian work, America is strengthened by selfless heroes. (more)
Truth is a tough mistress. The sting of her whip? Intellectual and moral consistency. Truth frustrates moral relativists and hypocrites alike. Truth is not interested in your voter registration card, which campaign you work for, what Plum Book position you snagged a presidential appointment to, or what “non-partisan” charitable organization allows you a place to park your desk. Truth is just truth. (more)
“Every day we don’t act…” How those impassioned those words are. How commanding. The very essence of presidential, moral leadership. Unsurprisingly, such eloquence escaped President Obama’s lips during the weekly address—and for a blink, I had “Hope.” Hope that he would switch from the sexy topic of financial regulation to matters more pressing on the presidential portfolio. Like genocide prevention, crimes against humanity, rigged elections, or just foreign affairs in general. Instead, Obama embraced the domestic politics of the day—and willfully ignored the elections in Sudan. (more)
Freedom from fear. A generation has been born and raised the world over since Sudan held elections. This week, the people of this war-torn country voted. The Obama Administration proclaimed the elections would be as “free and fair as possible.” Genocidaire and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir no doubt enjoyed such legitimization. After all, if the American president is willing to legitimize the election via U.S. envoy Scott Gration, Bashir demonstrated hubris and confidence that the do-gooders would be silenced, or muffled as he continues to engage with partner Scott Gration, as their razzle-dazzle diplomatic dance obscures his intentions. His record. The truth of genocide, the gerrymandering of districts throughout Sudan, the rampant corruption, occasional kidnap of Aid workers, the unreported rapes and murders of his opponents, and so many more crimes against humanity. (more)
Voting has ended in Sudan, after five days of landmark elections that were marred by logistical problems and allegations of fraud. (more)
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan’s first multiparty elections in more than two decades will go ahead despite the withdrawal of several opposition parties alleging campaign irregularities, the election commission said Saturday. (more)
(CNN) — Sudan on Tuesday signed a framework peace accord with rebels from the nation’s volatile Darfur region, state media reported. (more)
Abstract: In the real world, as opposed to what French President Nicolas Sarkozy calls President Barack Obama’s "virtual world," America faces the reality of Iran’s intransigence and aggressiveness; China’s headlong pursuit of its own national, regional, and global interests; Russia’s determination to regain its Near Abroad; the Arab states’ refusal to accept any kind of a reasonable settlement of the kind that Israel has already offered under several governments; Syria’s designs on Lebanon; and Hugo Chávez’s designs on the weaker countries in Latin America. President Obama’s foreign policy agenda of gradual American retreat will have inexorable consequences: When erstwhile allies see the American umbrella being withdrawn, they will have to accommodate themselves to those from whom we were protecting them. If Obama proves impervious to empirical evidence and experience, all these accommodations, the weakening of alliances, the strengthening of centers of adversarial power in Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, Caracas, and elsewhere will continue until we are awakened by some cataclysm. (more)
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The top U.S. diplomat for Sudan is urging a range of steps to quell violence surging in southern Sudan as two key votes approach — one of them a referendum on independence that some fear could spark a new civil war. (more)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A group of aid agencies is warning that Sudan’s volatile southern region could collapse into chaos again. (more)
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