By Ambassador Dhano Obongo March 30, 2017 (SSNA) — Turkey’s relations with the European Union (EU) are observed not only in Europe, Africa, and Turkey but the entire Arab/Muslim world has become attentive to what has been presumed a developing affiliation. Turkey’s eligibility for EU membership has been substantiated collectively by EU leaders in 1989,…
By Eric Reeves March 27, 2017 (SSNA) — If we needed any confirmation of the supremely callous quid pro quo between Khartoum and the U.S intelligence community under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, it comes today in the form of a dispatch from Sudan Tribune (see below). The dispatch confirms that the Obama administration, during its last…
By Eric Reeves Darfur Basics March 19, 2017 (SSNA) — There are many elements to the current critically dangerous situation on the ground in Darfur: [1] Rampant insecurity, increasingly created by irregular and unchecked Arab militia forces; [2] Denial of humanitarian access (to perhaps 30 percent of the population in need according to some humanitarian estimates); the needy population is estimated to…
By Riang Y. Z. Nyak March 14, 2017 (SSNA) — Recent developments in South Sudan are truly indicative of a situation that has become obvious to many in the course of the last three years of the war. Since the four-day battles in Juba in July 2016, a number of people have come up with…
By Eric Reeves March 4, 2017 (SSNA) — A series of recent dispatches from Sudan Tribune and Radio Dabanga make painfully clear the consequences of gross mismanagement of the Sudanese economy by the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime, which retains its monopolistic hold on national wealth and power despite the absurdly factitious “new government” announced by President (and…
March 3, 2017 (SSNA) — Last January, former President Barack Obama eased the 19-year economic and trade sanctions on Sudan. The decision came as a response to the collaboration of the Sudanese government in the fight against terrorism, denying safe haven to the South Sudanese rebels and, improving humanitarian access to people in need. This…
By Dr. Gatluak Ter Thach* February 23, 2017 (SSNA) — The international media and regional media outlets are silent of seriously informing the world about manmade catastrophes in South Sudan. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), together with South Sudanese regime in Juba, have announced that a graved famine hit South Sudan, especially…
By Chap Phan February 21. 2017 (SSNA) — Many people, including this author, have expressed concerns many times about Juba’s regime inability to bring peace and show leadership in ending civil war. The regime has chosen to fight against the people with no victory in sight. War has spread to the wider country since the…
By Eric Reeves February 21, 2017 (SSNA) — The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army-North (SPLA/M-N) today reports that Khartoum has begun a new military offensive in South Kordofan: “Today morning, 21st February 2017, the Sudanese army and its allied militia started their dry season offensive around 6 am at Krongo Abdalla in Kadougli county, breaching the declared joint cease-fire,” reads a s statement…
By Eric Reeves February 12, 2017 (SSNA) — Towards the end of her long chapter on the Rwanda genocide in “A Problem From Hell” (2002), Samantha Power renders a moment from this terrible international failure that has long haunted me. It is both unforgettable in its implications and points to far too much that is unforgivable. The…
By Professor Simon E. Kulusika February 6, 2017 (SSNA) — Before explaining the meaning of the title of this article, it may help the reader in understanding what will be said later to know the person who is the writer of the article. Where he was born, the Kumam people of Soroti District of Uganda,…
By Kuir ë Garang February 5, 2017 (SSNA) — There are many South Sudanese who talk of ‘public opinion’ or ‘popular view’; but how do you gauge that such a view is actually an unsolicited opinion which people hold without fear of retribution? In a nation where holding a contrary opinion is considered a national…
By António Guterres February 3, 2017 (SSNA) — Far too often, the world views Africa through the prism of problems. When I look to Africa, I see a continent of hope, promise and vast potential. I am committed to building on those strengths and establishing a higher platform of cooperation between the United Nations and…
By Eric Reeves February 3, 2017 (SSNA) — Among the myriad Executive Orders that President Trump has inherited from the Obama administration is one essentially lifting sanctions on the regime in Khartoum, Sudan. During his last week in office Obama declared there had been sufficient “positive action over the past six months” by the very…
By Dhano Obongo February 2, 2017 (SSNA) — In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. Then He made people and things became complicated. At a crossroads of Eurasian and African peoples on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, God placed what was called a promised land inhabited by the descendants of a man…
By Eric Reeves January 28, 2017 (SSNA) — Here is a revealing glimpse into the kinds of indiscriminate, ignorant, ham-fisted policies that will follow from the incomprehensible election of an ignorant, vicious, and pathologically narcissistic man—surrounding himself with advisers who know how to echo him, and often know no more than this crudely uninformed but…