Archivo etiqueta «Sudán»
Por Wole Soyinka, escritor y galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1986, y David L. Phillips, director ejecutivo de la Fundación Elie Wiesel para la Humanidad (EL PAÍS, 06/07/06):
Las perspectivas de paz en Darfur se desvanecen porque el Gobierno de Sudán está saboteando los esfuerzos internacionales para ayudar y proteger a las víctimas del conflicto. El presidente Omar Hassan al Bashir no sólo se ha negado a permitir que Naciones Unidas despliegue una fuerza de paz, sino que además su gobierno ha rechazado una solicitud de varios premios Nobel para visitar Sudán. A Sudán le … Seguir leyendo
Africa Report N°112 (CRISIS GROUP, 29/06/06):
Countries in crisis and the wider international community must do much more to support women’s involvement in solving Africa’s deadliest conflicts. In Sudan, Congo and Uganda, an array of women’s organisations and leaders are doing remarkable work, under difficult circumstances, especially in community organisations and informal conflict resolution mechanisms. Still, women remain marginalised in formal peace processes and post-conflict governments. Donors and others in the international community all need to do much more to offer sustainable support rather than just rhetoric. It is not merely a question of fairness or equity: women make a difference in part because they often adopt a more inclusive approach toward security and address key social and economic issues that would otherwise be ignored. Peace agreements, post-conflict reconstruction and governance work better when women peace activists are involved.
Leer artículo completo (PDF). Disponible también en Crisis Group.
Africa Briefing N°39 (CRISIS GROUP, 20/06/06):
The peace agreement signed on 5 May has little chance of bringing any stability to Darfur unless the parties comply strictly and the international community acts decisively to support the peacekeeping mission. The deal depends heavily upon the goodwill of the parties, including the Khartoum government, which has broken many commitments in the past. International actors must shore up its security provisions, improve the return and recovery packages for displaced persons, bring in holdouts who have yet to sign, and rapidly deploy UN peacekeepers with Chapter VII authority. Significant violence has continued since the DPA was concluded, and the agreement will not hold unless the peacekeepers of the AU, and soon the UN, can deal robustly with the many spoilers who want to undermine it.
Leer artículo completo (PDF). Disponible también en Crisis Group.
Julie Flint is the co-author of Darfur: A Short History of a Long War (NEW YORK TIMES, 17/06/06):
AS the peace talks for the Darfur region of Sudan drew to a close last month, the United States took over the task of defining the solution. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick flew into Abuja, Nigeria, where the talks were being held, on May 2 and three days later the Darfur Peace Agreement was signed. The only trouble is, the United States is backing the most abusive rebel leader in Darfur.
The response to the peace agreement was tepid … Seguir leyendo
By Alan J. Kuperman, an assistant professor of public affairs at the University of Texas, is an editor of “Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion and Civil War.” (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 31/05/06):
THOUSANDS of Americans who wear green wristbands and demand military intervention to stop Sudan’s Arab government from perpetrating genocide against black tribes in Darfur must be perplexed by recent developments.
Without such intervention, Sudan’s government last month agreed to a peace accord pledging to disarm Arab janjaweed militias and resettle displaced civilians. By contrast, Darfur’s black rebels, who are touted by the wristband crowd as … Seguir leyendo
Por Jaccky Mamou, presidente del colectivo Urgence Dafur y ex presidente de la organización Médicos del Mundo (EL MUNDO, 25/05/06):
Mientras la comunidad internacional acaba de conmemorar el duodécimo aniversario del genocidio de Ruanda y, con la mano en el corazón, jura que algo así no se puede volver a repetir nunca más, en el oeste de Sudán continúan produciéndose desde hace más de tres años los asesinatos, las violaciones, los saqueos y los desplazamientos forzosos de las poblaciones africanas negras de Four, Massalit y Zaghawa.
Para reprimir a los pequeños grupos armados surgidos en estas poblaciones, el Gobierno … Seguir leyendo
By Anthony Lake, a professor at Georgetown, was a national security adviser to President Bill Clinton and Francis Fukuyama, a professor of international political economy at Johns Hopkins, is the author of “America at the Crossroads.” (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 21/05/06):
FOR three years, despite the official rhetoric and the growing public support for bold international action to end the first genocide of the 21st century, Darfur has largely remained a neglected tragedy.
Until now. With the signing of a peace agreement in Nigeria on May 5, Darfur, in western Sudan, faces a new and more hopeful prospect. … Seguir leyendo
By Jonathan Steele (THE GUARDIAN, 05/05/06):
By the time you read this, there may be good news from Africa. A peace agreement could have been signed for Darfur, the place often compared with Rwanda as a cause for international shame because warnings of genocide went unheeded. If done by last night’s midnight deadline, a deal will surprise most people, since with very few exceptions the world’s press has ignored the negotiations that have been inching forward under African Union (AU) mediation in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
I call it the Darfur Disconnect. One TV reporter after another does the standard … Seguir leyendo
By Dr Paul Moorcraft, a former Ministry of Defence policy expert, is director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Analysis; he has been visiting Sudan regularly for 10 years (THE GUARDIAN, 06/04/06):
If there is a world journalism record for being arrested by Sudan’s dictatorial government, I probably hold it: I was detained on the first morning of my first visit. Despite many less eventful subsequent visits to Sudan, I remain very wary of the regime.Nevertheless, Khartoum does have a point about the dangers of western military intervention in Darfur. In February President Bush, during an unscripted question-and-answer session … Seguir leyendo
Africa Report N°106 (CRISIS GROUP, 31/03/06)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
More than a year after it was signed, Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) is showing signs of strain. While the agreement ended one of Africa’s longest and bloodiest civil wars, it was an agreement between only two parties, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) and the ruling National Congress Party (NCP), and continues to lack broader support throughout the country, particularly in the North. The current equation for peace in Sudan is a worrying one: the NCP has the capacity to implement but lacks the political will, whereas the SPLM has the … Seguir leyendo
Africa Report N°105 (CRISIS GROUP, 17/03/06):
Without rapidly boosting international forces in the region, the Darfur crisis and the escalating proxy war between Sudan and Chad will cost tens of thousands more lives and destabilise a wide swathe of Africa. The small African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) has reached its military and political limits, and the African Union has accepted in principle a UN mission after September 2006. However, the situation cries out for a new multinational force with a strong protection mandate, distinct from AMIS but working with it, to bridge the gap over the crucial next six months. A militarily capable UN member state – France seems the most promising candidate – should offer to the Security Council to lead for this purpose a blue-helmet stabilisation force, consisting of some 5,000 troops.
Leer artículo completo (PDF). Disponible también en Crisis Group.
Par Jack Straw, Secrétaire au Foreign Office (LE FIGARO, 09/03/06):
La crise qui sévit au Darfour depuis trois ans a déjà fait entre 70 000 et 400 000 morts. Seul un règlement politique qui en prenne en compte les causes profondes pourra y mettre fin. C’est le but que sont censées poursuivre les parties en présence aux pourparlers de paix actuellement en cours à Abuja, devant qui je me suis exprimé mardi. Le Royaume-Uni soutient ce processus de paix, et j’ai annoncé la semaine dernière que nous dégagerions une enveloppe supplémentaire d’un million de livres à son endroit.
Les … Seguir leyendo
By Kofi A. Annan, secretary general of the United Nations (THE WHASINGTON POST, 24/01/06 – EL PAÍS, 03/02/06):
Cuando visité Darfur el pasado mayo me sentí esperanzado. Hoy soy pesimista, a menos que se logre organizar otra gran campaña internacional en las próximas semanas. En mayo visité una aldea cuyos habitantes habían regresado después de huir de la violencia, y vivían con relativa seguridad gracias a la presencia de los soldados de la Unión Africana (UA). Es cierto que no era más que un comienzo. Gran parte de la vasta región seguía presa de la violencia esporádica, con más … Seguir leyendo
By Kenneth H. Bacon, president of Refugees Internacional (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 31/01/06):
HOW can the United States best use its monthlong turn as president of the United Nations Security Council, which it assumes tomorrow? It could start by devoting itself to ending the violence in the Darfur region of western Sudan — violence that President Bush has characterized as genocide.
There is precedent for such action. The last time the United States assumed the rotating presidency of the 15-member Security Council, it made a real contribution to peace in the region. John C. Danforth, then the ambassador to … Seguir leyendo
Por Nat Hentoff, escritora (GEES, 16/01/06):
Mientras los líderes de China, Rusia y los países árabes evitan lo que pasa por sus conciencias desde Darfur, un líder espiritual, el Papa Benedicto, sí habló al mundo acerca de los constantes crímenes contra la humanidad en Sudán a los que raramente se presta atención en la continua corriente de los medios. Decía el Papa Benedicto al arzobispo de Jartoum en la Ciudad del Vaticano el 28 de noviembre: “El horror de los acontecimientos que se desarrollan en Darfur señala la necesidad de una resolución internacional más firme para garantizar la seguridad … Seguir leyendo