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."
Nearly 40,000 people were violently uprooted from a contested region of Sudan last week. What can the international community do to better protect civilians in harms way?
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."
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.
The New York Times inexplicably mistranslates the testimony of a Sudanese woman in a video feature posted to the Times' site. Then, it edits out the mistake. What is going on here? UDPATE January 28 2011 with NYT public editor's response. UPDATE II: The Times issues stunning correction.
