If the referendum in South Sudan results in secession of the South, former South African president Thabo Mbeki told audiences at two universities in Sudan, it is imperative to understand that it will not divide into an ‘African’ south and an ‘Arab’ north. The African Union, he said, believed firmly that northern Sudan is no...
read moreOrganisers of the historic referendum in Southern Sudan on Thursday announced that the threshold of 60% turnout had been reached: the results of this vote will be valid, and, if news reports are to be believed, the North looks set to accept the result. The looming threat of violence that has galvanised international groups and media...
read moreTo my surprise I recently came across an article on the Sudanese referendum that serves as an interesting example of a situation in which celebrities are becoming involved in a cause, and their actions seem to be both heartfelt and may hold a genuine promise of producing some meaningful results. The article was published in TIME...
read moreIn 2006 – ancient history in the modern media – the Lord’s Resistance Army left Northern Uganda. They left in their wake one of the most under-reported African conflicts of the last century, with hundreds of thousands displaced in IDP camps, and thousands more bearing the physical and psychological scars of a...
read moreSudan’s referendum in 2011 looms large on the agenda of think tanks and humanitarian do-gooders following African affairs, and for good reason. The result (if it isn’t delayed again) will see the creation of a new state and all manner of challenges to Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s grip on power. The one major trend in...
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