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Bisogna temere i demoni secessionisti del Sudan
Published: 22/07/201022/07/2010
Original Version: Beware of Sudan’s secessionist demons
Dopo le disgraziate elezioni dello scorso aprile che hanno confermato Bashir al potere, il Sudan sembra irrimediabilmente diretto verso la secessione; tale evento a sua volta potrebbe costituire un funesto…
Il Nilo: un serpente bicefalo con un pungiglione sulla coda
Published: 15/07/201015/07/2010
Original Version: Two-headed serpent with a sting in the tail
I cambiamenti climatici e le trasformazioni demografiche nell’Africa orientale sono all’origine dell’aspra disputa che vede Egitto e Sudan contrapporsi ai paesi a monte del Nilo – scrive…
East Africa seeks more Nile water from Egypt
Published: 16/05/2010Four East African states have signed an agreement to seek more water from the River Nile – a move strongly opposed by Egypt and Sudan.
Under colonial-era accords, the two countries get 90% of the river’s water.
Upstream countries including…
The democratic mudslide of Sudan
Published: 07/05/2010As expected, Sudan’s incumbent President Omar al-Bashir won the national presidential poll with approximately 68 percent of the vote, despite facing war crimes charges over Darfur. The April elections were touted to be the country’s first multi-party democratic elections since…
Crisi sul Nilo
Published: 29/04/201029/04/2010
Original Version: Crisis on the Nile
Il disaccordo sulla gestione delle acque del Nilo, fra l’Egitto e il Sudan da un lato, e i paesi alle sorgenti del Nilo dall’altro, rischia di creare una grave crisi politica…
Is South Sudan another Darfur? (video)
Published: 28/04/201028/04/2010 – Following Darfur’s tragedy, concern has now turned to South Sudan. A peace agreement was signed in 2005 by the north and the south, ending over 20 years of civil war. A referendum is supposed to be held in January 2011 (France 24)
Bashir wins Sudan elections (video)
Published: 27/04/201027/04/2010 – Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has been declared the winner of this month’s dispute-ridden elections. Former rebel leader Salva Kiir has also been confirmed the landslide winner in the semi-autonomous south in the first polls since the North-South war ended (NTV Kenya)
Sudan Elections 2010: Defective beyond repair!
Published: 27/04/2010The Sudanese are a peaceful, polite and tolerant people: so, it was only natural that the elections proceeded as peacefully as they did. However, the electoral commission, which acts as a puppet for the ruling NCP, was clearly incompetent in…
Poll result delay worries Sudanese (video)
Published: 21/04/201021/04/2010 – Results from Sudan’s first multi-party election in 24 years, originally expected on Tuesday, have been delayed indefinitely by the national election commission. “We cannot set a definite date to announce the results because [the counting] is a very complicated process,” Hadi Mohammed Ahmed, the head of the committee, said. International observers from the European Union and the US-based Carter Centre have said the elections did not meet international standards. The opposition has said the vote was rigged and that they will not accept the results (al-Jazeera)
Sudan through the eyes of al-Turabi
Published: 19/04/2010Hassan al-Turabi is an influential Sudanese political leader and a prominent Muslim scholar whose long-running power struggle with Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, shows no signs of ending.
During an active political life of some 40 years, al-Turabi has been…
Sudan elections – A Travesty, a Logistical Nightmare, Irrelevant, Democracy
Published: 13/04/2010Sudan’s first multiparty elections in 24 years started yesterday in an atmosphere of anger, hope and confusion. The last election, in 1986, followed a people’s uprising that removed a military dictator. How times change. Today another military dictator – Field…
Il Sudan sull’orlo della secessione
Published: 09/04/201009/04/2010
Original Version: Sudan poised perilously on partition
La crisi legata alle elezioni sudanesi è sintomatica del fragile accordo di spartizione dei poteri che dovrebbe garantire il referendum dell’anno prossimo sulla secessione – scrive la giornalista inglese Julie…
Sudan’s Elections and Birth Pangs of the South
Published: 07/04/2010Sudan stands at a political crossroads on the eve of presidential, parliamentary, and local elections to be held in April 2010. Yet with the election date fast approaching, opposition parties and the southern-based Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) are threatening…
Il Sudan ha bisogno di un’iniziativa internazionale
Published: 04/02/201004/02/2010
Original Version: Sudan Needs International Action
Il Sudan, il più grande paese dell’Africa, rischia di scivolare nuovamente in una guerra civile che potrebbe portare alla disintegrazione del paese e ad una catastrofe umanitaria di proporzioni enormi –…
Sudan Needs International Action
Published: 28/01/2010Distracted by Haiti’s humanitarian catastrophe, by the Afghan war, and by Al-Qaeda’s resurgence in Yemen, the world is doing little or nothing about Sudan. Yet, if left unattended, the looming crisis there could dwarf them all.
The Sudanese problems are…
Today’s lesson: Omar Al Bashir and Turkey
Published: 16/11/2009Let me make a free contribution to the ongoing 5th Academy of Politics organized by the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, because the “do’s and don’ts” of politics that we witnessed with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s aborted visit…
Obama opts for compromise on Sudan
Published: 20/10/2009It has become a familiar refrain coming out of Washington – incentives for progress or threats of action if there is no movement towards peace, better human rights or de-nuclearisation.
Whether on Burma, Iran or now Sudan,…
Nubi minacciose si addensano sul Sudan
Published: 24/09/200924/09/2009
Original Version: Storm clouds over Sudan
Nel Sudan martoriato, ad una fetta di popolazione sempre più ampia che vive sotto la soglia di povertà si aggiunge la violenza tribale, salita ormai a livelli incontrollabili. Mentre si aggrava…
Storm clouds over Sudan
Published: 16/09/2009Pagan Amum, secretary-general of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), has a story. He once went to a restaurant in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia with friends from north and south Sudan. The owner of the restaurant was puzzled to see…
Sudan-United Arab Emirates: an odd deal over land
Published: 27/07/2009THE pristine grasslands of south-eastern Sudan may be the largest trackless swathe of Africa. The annual migration of wild game across the Boma plateau may equal the more famous annual migration through Tanzania’s Serengeti plains. Yet for the next 50…
L’attività dell’Unione Africana nel Darfur e la decisione sulla questione Bashir
Published: 17/07/2009La decisione, da molti temuta, è arrivata: il 4 luglio, nel corso del vertice svoltosi a Sirte (in Libia), l’Unione Africana (UA) ha dichiarato di non voler cooperare con la richiesta di arresto per il Presidente del Sudan…
Keeping the ICC at bay
Published: 16/07/2009Some consider Sudan to have come out on top after the recent African summit. It gained the strong support of the 54 African Union states in the form of a summit resolution not to cooperate with the International Criminal Court…
Efforts to disarm Sudanese ex-combatants making headway, reports UN official
Published: 12/07/200918 June 2009 – The United Nations reports that progress is being made in the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) of soldiers in north and south Sudan, a key component of the 2005 agreement that ended the country’s 21-year civil…
African Union in rift with court over Bashir extradition
Published: 04/07/2009The African Union says it will halt co-operation with the International Criminal Court over its decision to charge Sudan’s leader with war crimes.
President Omar al-Bashir was indicted over alleged atrocities in the Darfur region in March.
But delegates to…
Crisi in Sudan: speranze e pericoli dell’indipendenza
Published: 27/06/200927/06/2009
Nel 2011 il Sud Sudan probabilmente voterà per la secessione, attraverso un referendum. L’Africa dovrebbe così acquisire un nuovo Paese. Ma il Sud Sudan potrebbe nascere come uno Stato fallito in partenza
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New Darfur crisis looms as Bashir digs in on aid
Published: 27/05/2009Delivering a blow to hopes that he would soon reverse the expulsion of humanitarian aid agencies from Darfur, the Sudanese President Omar al Bashir has renewed his attack on the charities, accusing them of seeking to bring about a regime…
Who are Sudan’s Jem rebels?
Published: 15/05/2009The Justice and Equality Movement (Jem) is the most powerful anti-government faction involved in the Darfur conflict in Sudan. Jem leaders claim they have as many as 35,000 well-armed fighters in the western Darfur region of Sudan that borders Chad.
Is the Darfur bloodshed genocide? Opinions differ
Published: 08/05/2009U.S. presidents and some activist groups have called the bloody campaign by the Sudanese Arab-led government and allied militias ‘genocide.’ But others doubt the violence fits the legal definition.
Il mandato di arresto per Bashir e la reazione della Comunità internazionale
Published: 25/03/2009Il 4 marzo 2009, la Camera preliminare uno della Corte Penale Internazionale (CPI) ha accolto la richiesta del procuratore Luis Moreno-Ocampo di emettere un mandato di arresto nei confronti del presidente del Sudan al-Bashir (la prima nei confronti di un…
Il mandato contro Bashir: dove sono gli altri criminali di guerra?
Published: 08/03/200908/03/2009
Gran parte del mondo arabo ha accolto negativamente la decisione di emettere un mandato di cattura nei confronti del presidente sudanese Bashir. Una decisione del genere trasuda ipocrisia – afferma un editoriale del quotidiano saudita Arab News. Che ne
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Anteporre la giustizia alla pace significa il disastro per il Sudan
Published: 07/03/200907/03/2009
L’azione legale intentata dalla Corte Penale Internazionale nei confronti del presidente sudanese Omar al-Bashir potrebbe distruggere anni di faticosi progressi diplomatici. I costi umani per il popolo sudanese potrebbero essere incalcolabili – sostengono Julie Flint e Alex de Waal,
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L’incriminazione di al-Bashir è stata tatticamente mal gestita
Published: 22/07/200822/07/2008
La decisione del procuratore della Corte Penale Internazionale di richiedere un mandato di cattura nei confronti del presidente sudanese Omar al-Bashir rischia di essere inefficace ai fini di una reale condanna di quest’ultimo, e controproducente per quanto riguarda la
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Caso Bashir: quando la Corte Penale Internazionale lavora contro i propri obiettivi
Published: 22/07/200822/07/2008
Le accuse rivolte contro il presidente sudanese Omar al-Bashir hanno suscitato aspre polemiche all’interno del mondo arabo dove molti, pur riconoscendo i crimini commessi da al-Bashir, nondimeno hanno parlato di politica “dei due pesi e delle due misure” adottata
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Alex de Waal: Obstacles to Peace in Darfur (video)
Published: 10/01/200805/01/2008 – Alex de Waal, advisor to the African Union at the Darfur peace talks in Abuja, discusses some of the necessary conditions for peace in Darfur and the major obstacles standing in the way
Sudan: i nodi del conflitto nel Darfur
Published: 01/07/200721/06/2007
La drammatica e tuttora irrisolta crisi del Darfur alimenta una guerra spesso dimenticata o strumentalizzata a scopi puramente ideologici, senza che le vere cause del conflitto siano realmente indagate e tenute nella dovuta considerazione per giungere ad una sua effettiva
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