Abyei Archives - UN Dispatch

Security Council Approved A New Peacekeeping Mission in Abyei. Now Comes the Hard Part

If the new mission in Abyei, Sudan, is to be successful in protecting personnel and civilians, the Security Council will have to continue to respond assertively and back the mission up in both rhetoric and resources.

Ethnic Cleansing Solidifies Gains in Sudan Border Regions

The Sudanese government's strategy of forced displacement seems to have worked.

This is What Ethnic Cleansing Looks Like. And it is Succeeding For Sudan

Arguably the worst place in the world to be today is in the south-western borderlands between Sudan and the soon to be new country of South Sudan.

Some Ethnic Cleansing in Sudan Before the South Declares Independence

What most reports will not tell you is that the current governor of South Kordofan is a man named Ahmad Haroun. Prior to serving as governor, Haroun served as the Minister of State for the Interior, where he was assigned the "Darfur Security Desk."

Oil and Ethnic Fault Lines Make a Combustible Combination in Abyei, Sudan

How to understand the conflict over Abyei.

Head of UN Peacekeeping in Washington to Focus on Abyei Crisis

At a meeting at the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, DC yesterday the head of UN Peacekeeping Alan Le Roy called the Sudanese Armed Forces incursion into Abyei a "clear breach of the Comprehensive Peace Accord."

Get Ready for a Resumption of War in Sudan

On Saturday, the northern Sudanese army invaded the border town of Abyei, rolling tanks through the streets and firing mortar rounds into the United Nations' compound. The Sudanese Armed Forces took the strategic town of Abyei with little struggle from the south's Sudan People's Liberation Army forces stationed in the town.

Negotiations over Sudan’s Dissolution Being Today. Here is What is at Stake

Negotiations resumed today in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum between top officials from Sudan’s north and south. These leaders, representing two regions of the same country, will soon begin relating to each other as diplomats from two different nations.

Not all Good News From South Sudan

The man the International Criminal Court acuses of having facilitated the Darfur genocide by plying arms to militias allied with the Sudanese government may be doing the same thing in the Abyei region.

Security Council Approved A New Peacekeeping Mission in Abyei. Now Comes the Hard Part

Ethnic Cleansing Solidifies Gains in Sudan Border Regions

This is What Ethnic Cleansing Looks Like. And it is Succeeding For Sudan

Some Ethnic Cleansing in Sudan Before the South Declares Independence

Oil and Ethnic Fault Lines Make a Combustible Combination in Abyei, Sudan

Head of UN Peacekeeping in Washington to Focus on Abyei Crisis

Get Ready for a Resumption of War in Sudan

Negotiations over Sudan’s Dissolution Being Today. Here is What is at Stake

Not all Good News From South Sudan

UNAIDS and the Millennium Villages

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 5 – Bathing in Yakawlang

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 6 – The Legacy of War Crimes

The Obama Agenda at the United Nations