Africa

[Dabanga] Sudan / Darfur / Massachusetts — As the war in Sudan enters its third year, resulting in what has become the most acute humanitarian catastrophe in the world, with millions of civilians bearing the brunt and facing famine, leading Sudan researcher and analyst, Prof Eric Reeves, argues that if humanitarian convoys cannot reach the North Darfur capital El Fasher, where escalating hostilities over the past weeks have prompted more than three million people to flee, then “the UN or other international actors must begin a sustained program of

[Crisis Group] This week on The Horn, Alan talks with Abdul Mohammed, a former senior official on Sudan at the UN and the African Union, about Sudan’s growing fragmentation after two years of war, risks of a de facto partition and prospects for getting a peace initiative on track.