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The Overthrow of Omar el-Bechir

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 16 April 2019
Certain pockets of Sudan are still at war, and the Khartoum government is still military. Nothing has changed despite the fact that President Omar el-Bechir has been toppled. For Thierry Meyssan, Sudan’s problem, after 30 years of dictatorship by the Muslim Brotherhood, is above all cultural. Current events have no relation with an aspiration for liberty, but only with freedom from starvation.

Norway, UK and US statement on the current unrest in Sudan

14 April 2019
On April 11, the brave people of Sudan through their determined and principled call for change removed a President who had headed a brutal regime for 30 years. A new Transitional Military Council was formed on April 13, after the people decisively rejected the initial military leadership who had a close association with the former regime.
The new leader of the Transitional Military Council has pledged to turn over power to a civilian government. However, at this point, the constitution (...)

The Egypt/Sudan/Eritrea/Ethiopia crisis

6 February 2018
Egypt and Sudan are entangled in a number of conflicts:
The border between the two states has not been defined. The Halayeb region, occupied by Egypt since 2000, is still claimed by Sudan. Upon Egypt’s surrender of the Tiran and Sanafir islands to Saudi Arabia, in 2016, the kingdom reportedly acknowledged Egypt’s sovereignty over Halayeb.
Sudan is ruled by a branch of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, now banned by Cairo. It has just signed a agreement with Turkey, current sponsor of the (...)

EU Support for a Muslim Brotherhood Militia in Sudan

29 April 2017
The US NGO, Enough, has published a report, Border Control from Hell, How the EU’s migration partnership legitimizes Sudan’s "militia state", challenging the EU policy on Sudan.
The NGO believes that the Union is subsidizing the establishment of two detention camps in Sudan as well as fitting out and training security forces to limit the influx of African migrants into Europe. Yet, the principal beneficiaries are the Rapid Support Forces (“RSF”). The latter were established by former soldiers (...)

Consultative meeting United Nations/African Union

Addis-Ababa (Ethiopia) | 21 May 2011
Jean Ping
1. The members of the Security Council of the United Nations (UNSC) and the Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AUPSC) held their 5th consultative meeting at the Headquarters of the African Union, in Addis Ababa, on 21 May 2011.
2. Reaffirming the UNSC’s primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security and the mandate of the AUPSC with regard to the promotion of peace and security in Africa, as well as the provisions of Chapter VIII of (...)

Sudan Troika Joint Statement on Cessation of Talks in Sudan

by Hillary Clinton, Jonas Gahr Støre, William Hague

15 March 2011
Sudan Troika Joint Statement on the Cessation of National Congress Party – Sudan People’s Liberation Movement Talks
The members of the Sudan Troika express serious concern about the announced breakdown of talks between the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) this weekend.
In this sensitive period, it is critical that the NCP and SPLM maintain their dialogue and make further progress toward the creation of sustainable economic, political, and (...)

The Balkanization of Sudan: The Redrawing of the Middle East and North Africa

by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

Ottawa (Canada) | 21 January 2011
With outcome foretold, the recent referendum on the "independence" of oil-rich South Sudan is part of a deeper agenda bearing little relation to human rights concerns. The real question is not if, but who has been stoking the flames of conflict and violence in Sudan. This pundit sees a link between the Sudanese referendum and other processes unfolding in the region, which spell out the overlapping U.S. and Israeli agendas for energy resources control and the balkanization of East Africa and the Arab World.

U.S.-Norway-U.K. Statement on Southern Sudan Referendum

by Hillary Clinton, Jonas Gahr Støre, William Hague

9 January 2011
We welcome the start of polling today for the Southern Sudan Referendum. This represents a historic step towards completion of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement. We recognise the significant progress which has been made in recent weeks towards preparing for the referendum, including the successful completion of voter registration and other technical arrangements. We welcome the preliminary reports of the UN Secretary General’s Panel on the Referenda in Sudan, Carter Center, European (...)

George Clooney sponsors satellite monitoring of Sudan

29 December 2010
An internet site dedicated to the satellite surveillance of southern Sudan goes live on 29 December 2010. Satellite Sentinel is the latest CIA find in terms of political communication: the aim is to come up with evidence of President Omar al-Bashir’s guilt pending his appearance before the International Criminal Court, which has charged him with three counts of genocide.
The launching of the website was trumpeted by a posse of Hollywood stars summoned by George Clooney for his Not on our (...)

Joe Biden is paving the way for a new African state

8 June 2010
U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden will attend the opening of the Football World Cup in South Africa.
While he’s at it, he will make several stopovers in Africa. He is accompanied by General Scott Gration, President Obama’s special envoy to Sudan. Their assignment is to finalise the secession of South Sudan, which could occur in the first half of 2011. On this account, they will meet with Salva Kiir, who is slated to become the first president of the new (...)

Lies behind Darfur

by Omar Al-Ramlaw

Winnipeg (Canada) | 2 October 2009
The Darfur War has been described as the worst conflict in the world today - and yet despite intensive media coverage, many aspects of the conflict are kept in the dark because of the propaganda battle that runs in tandem with the war on the ground. The view from there offers different perspectives. The West’s present concern over Darfur in southern Sudan is not genuine concern over genocide against the peoples in that poorest of poor part of a forsaken section of Africa. No: "It’s the oil, stupid."

Assembly of the African Union (Sirte, 1 – 3 July 2009)

Decision of the AU dealing with the International Criminal Court

3 July 2009
The Assembly,
1. TAKES NOTE of the recommendations of the Executive Council on the Meeting of the African States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC);
2. EXPRESSES ITS DEEP CONCERN at the indictment issued by the Pre-Trial Chamber of the ICC against President Omar Hassan Ahmed El Bashir of the Republic of The Sudan;
3. NOTES WITH GRAVE CONCERN the unfortunate consequences that the indictment has had on the delicate peace processes underway in The Sudan (...)

Under the guise of humanitarian intervention

Africom’s Covert War in Sudan

by Keith Harmon Snow

11 March 2009
Sudan holds important oil reserves in its South, becoming the focus of growing competition for influence between the US and China, the leading recipient of Sudanese oil. The US has responded to China’s growing influence in Africa with the formation of the United States Africa Command, or AFRICOM, in 2008. There are many indications that the Obama administration is poised to take an even more aggressive stance toward Sudan than the previous administration. Taken in this context, the war crimes charges against Sudanese President Bashir would appear to be an intensified push by the US and other imperialist powers for domination of energy-rich parts of the African continent.

Time for accountability

Should George W. Bush Be Arrested in Calgary, Alberta, To Be Tried For International Crimes?

by Anthony J. Hall

Lethbridge (Canada) | 9 March 2009
While the ICC decision to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity is a welcome development, it is hardly the only situation where it should be applied. Some see it as a double standard promoted by the ICC in the choice of its targets for prosecution. According to Prof. Anthony J. Hall, there is already enough documented evidence to indict George Bush and underlings for analogous crimes in the context of the government orchestrated 9/11 events. On March 17, 2009 George Bush will cross an international boundary as a private citizen for the first time without diplomatic immunity. How the Canadian authorities will respond remains to be seen.

Who sold "Carlos"?

Paris (France) | 6 September 2006
The conditions in which Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, called "Carlos", was transferred to France on August 1994, to be judged, are more and more mysterious. At the time, it had been known that the French Interior Minister, Charles Pasqua, had negotiated this arrest with his friend, the Sudanese islamic leader Hassan al-Tourabi, and that the operation had been directed by the prefect Philippe Parent.
Carlos was a revolutionist militant who had formed a combatants’ secret organization whose (...)

George Bush discusses Peace Agreement in Sudan

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 8 May 2006
THE PRESIDENT: I want to thank Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for joining me, and I also want to thank Deputy Secretary of State Bob Zoellick. He has just briefed me on his trip to Abuja, where he has played a very important role in setting up a peace agreement between the government of Sudan and a major rebel group in the Darfur region.
Congratulations on a job well done, Bob. Thank you.
Last week we saw the beginnings of hope for the people of Darfur. The government of Sudan and (...)

EU declaration on access for humanitarian operations in Darfur

Brussels (Belgium) | 6 April 2006
The European Union regrets that in recent days representatives of the international community, and most recently Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland, were not authorized by the Government of Sudan to visit Darfur. The humanitarian situation in Darfur requires sustained action by the international community. USG Egeland has an important role to play in that respect.
The European Union is committed to providing adequate support and funding for humanitarian (...)

“Sudan follows the steps of Iraq”

by Moukhtar al Dobabi

10 March 2006
The call issued by the Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, to replace African forces with international troops is not a personal initiative. In effect, it is a US-European project and that explains the justifiable rejection it has found in Sudan. The deployment of international troops will lead to the failure of the African Union to solve the Darfur crisis. It is another way to say that the African and Arab solution is not enough and that implies the intervention of the big (...)

“War is not the solution to the crisis in Darfur”

by Aissam Eddine Al Hajj

10 March 2006
Sudan’s Liberation Army movement expresses is views on the role being played by the British government to solve the crisis in our country. The movement thanks the British Minister of Foreign Affairs for his presence at negotiations; the movement is even more thankful for the fact that he is the first European foreign minister to have taken that step. The movement also thanks his statement confirming the strong willingness of the United Kingdom and its commitment to develop peace and (...)

“ Darfur: Stop the killing, or pay the price”

by Jack Straw

10 March 2006
The Darfur crisis has already claimed between 70,000 and 400,000 lives. It can only be solved through a political accord that targets the cause of the conflict and that is supposed to be the objective of those gathered in Abuja, Nigeria. The United Kingdom supports the peace process and it has financed the ongoing meeting with one million pounds, but the advancement of negotiations is quite slow, while negotiating parties do not respect the deadline set for December 31, 2005 as the moment (...)

“ Our friend, an architect of the genocide in Darfur”

by Don Cheadle, John Prendergast

10 March 2006
Eighteen months ago, the United States made the conclusion that genocide was taking place in Darfur. However, George W. Bush, the only president to have said that genocide was occurring there has taken little action in order to stop it. The reason for that lack of action could well be Salah Abdallah Gosh, a name well known by those responsible for anti-terrorist war and the victims of atrocities in Darfur. _Between 1990 and 1996, Gosh was assistant to Bin Laden in Sudan and after 2003, he (...)

“Ending genocide in Darfur”

by David Tuller, John Heffernan

10 March 2006
In September 2004, the Bush administration said that murder, rape and violence in Darfur constituted genocide. Since that moment on, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, but the responsible ones for such a massacre (the Sudanese government and the militias) continue to wage their campaign against the non-Arab population. That campaign began in 2003. Belligerents present or identify their adversaries as “Arabs” or “Africans”, though the distinction is not based in skin color but on (...)

“U.S. must act now to end genocide in Sudan”

by Joseph R. Biden Jr.

10 March 2006
In Darfur, we are witnessing a methodical kind of genocide which has claimed between 180,000 and 400,000 Sudanese lives and the displacement of 2 million people since the early 2004. That is the result of systematic elimination campaign launched by the Sudanese regime, whose target are the non-Arab and African tribal groups. At present, genocide continues to increase and the situation has worsen in such a manner that the UN and humanitarian agencies can no longer reach certain areas. (...)

Darfur: Simplification and Moralization of the Conflict

by Voltaire Network

Paris (France) | 10 March 2006
The extremely complex situation in Darfur is being ignored by analysts and by the commentaries published in the western mainstream media, particularly in the United States. US media analysts deal with the Darfur issue only as an ethnic conflict, or more precisely as the “genocide” of “Africans” at the hands of the “Arabs”. If it is a fact that the conflict leads to massacres that cruelly affect sedentary populations, it is false to suggest that confrontation is based on such ethnic or “racial” reasons and that such a division is the cause of the conflict.

Putin’s proposal to the Federation Council on sending a Russian Armed Forces military contingent to take part in peacekeeping operations in Sudan

Moscow (Russia) | 21 December 2005
“The above-mentioned operation (the UN mission in Sudan) is being carried out in accordance with UN Security Council resolution 1590 of March 24, 2005, which provides for an international military contingent to be deployed in the Republic of Sudan. UN Security Council resolution 1627 of September 23, 2005, extends the UN mission’s mandate for a further six months. The UN Secretary General has requested that we send a Russian Federation Armed Forces military contingent to take part in the UN (...)

UE statement on the Darfur peace talks in Abuja

Brussels (Belgium) | 21 December 2005
The European Union is closely following the Darfur peace talks in Abuja, the seventh round of which began at the end of November. The EU Special Representative for Sudan, Pekka Haavisto, has visited the talks twice during this round, and several member states are represented there. The EU welcomes the progress that has been made in the wealthsharing commission since the beginning of the round. But it is gravely concerned at the lack of progress on the other two tracks (power-sharing and (...)

Statement by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on Sudan

Brussels (Belgium) | 23 September 2005
The European Union welcomes the 20 September announcement of the formation of the Government of National Unity (GNU). This is a significant and historic step towards peace in Sudan. The EU congratulates both the National Congress Party and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement for the courage they have shown in taking forward the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), and welcomes the representation of other political parties in this Government. The EU now calls on the (...)

"You Can’t Win Wars Alone"

by Michel Barnier

9 May 2005
002. «You Can’t Win Wars Alone» Today, we have negotiations with Iran, but we are on alert. It is a difficult negotiation, but we are convinced that the political and diplomatic option is the best. Our main objective is to have the assurance that the Iranian nuclear program is exclusively civilian. We do not have it at the moment, but we are making progress.
I do not think that «no» to the Constitution will succeed in France. It will be necessary to obtain 25 ratifications without which, (...)

Sudan: over 30,000 person have died in Darfur region.

Minister Fodel Tijani: “Peace initiatives encounter difficulties with US maneuvers”.

14 September 2004
Dr. Fodel Tijani, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Sudan, rejects the accusations of genocide filed against his Government by the United States and the United Kingdom. Dr. Tijani states that Jartum (capital of the country) is trying to disarm the militia it has control of and negotiate with the others. He accuses Washington of using an excuse to intervene in his country and put the finger on the wound to take control of its oil. Finally, he stresses that various intergovernmental organizations welcome the analysis of their government.