BY THOMAS C MOUNTAIN When US National Security Advisor John “The Walrus” Bolton threatened the International Criminal Court with US Sanctions, many of us here in Africa cheered, long having given up hope that the ICC would ever be held to even the slightest account, least of all for its crimes against our continent.
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By Al Jazeera, Sudanese foreign minister Ibrahim Ghandour has denied his government used chemical weapons against its citizens, dismissing allegations as “a joke.” In October 2016, Amnesty called for an international investigation into “dozens of suspected chemical weapons attacks against civilian populations over the past nine months” in Jebel Marra, citing “credible evidence of horrific […]
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By Sudan Tribune, Commander of the Rapid Support Forces (aka the Janjaweed militias), Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, said his fighters have arrested about 600 Ethiopian illegal migrants near Sudan’s border with Libya and Egypt. Last June, hundreds of RSF elements have been deployed in the remote desert of the Northern State shortly after complaint by the […]
Continue ReadingBy Aljazeera, SUDAN is reported to have ordered two senior UN officials to leave, amid tensions between Khartoum and the peacekeeping mission in the western Darfur region. A UN spokesperson, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said Ali Zaatari and Yvonne Helle were ordered to […]
Continue ReadingBy Relief Web, AMBASSADOR Tomas Ulincy, Head of Delegation of the European Union to Sudan (EU) and Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Representative in Sudan launched yesterday at Corinthia Hotel two newly EU funded projects to strengthen access to quality primary education in the states of Gedarif, Red Sea, Kassala, Blue Nile, South Kordofan and the Darfur […]
Continue Reading“The Save Darfur Coalition was actually begun exclusively as an initiative of the American Jewish community” – The Jerusalem Post By Thomas C. Mountain, The so called “Save Darfur Coalition” raised tens of millions of dollars, some say a hundred million or more to help the people of Darfur yet an investigation by this writer […]
Continue ReadingBy Jeffrey Gettleman, Khalil Ibrahim, a powerful Sudanese rebel leader who mounted a daring and near-successful raid that took his fighters from the sun-blasted deserts of Darfur to the doorstep of the capital, Khartoum, was killed in battle on Sunday, the Sudanese government said. Sudanese military officials said they killed Mr. Ibrahim and several comrades during […]
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