… things have been happening.
Darfur authority welcomes SPLM proposal to review Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement:
February 20, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — Darfur former rebels hailed Sudan People’s Liberation Movement proposal to review the 2005 peace agreement in order to contribute to political settlement in the war-torn Darfur region.
Lovely! Me support.
Salva Kiir sacks South Sudan auditor:
The southern Sudan parliament had accused the former auditor general Barnabas of eleven charges including:
… Involved in signing cheques that should have not been done by an auditor for the sake of promoting good accounting system, spending US dollar 160 per day for accommodation and feeding at Nile Comfort Hotel in Juba since the time he was appointed to head GoSS Audit Chamber and awarding unnecessary privileges for members of Audit Chamber amounting to 2000 US dollars per month on accommodations.
Wonderful! I give him two thumbs up for actually giving a damn. Someone else doesn’t. Ehm, ehm. But hey, sacking? That’s it? What about throwing them in jail for corruption or something?
UN chief paints grim picture for Darfur crisis:
Februay 20, 2008 (UNITED NATIONS) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the Sudanese government and all rebel groups on Wednesday to agree to a cease-fire in Darfur, saying deteriorating security is undermining efforts to help thousands of civilians caught in an upsurge in fighting.
The keyword is “urged”. That’s all the UN does it seems. Oh well, at least something is better than nothing.
Sudanese journalists released after protest
February 19, 2008 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese authorities released journalists detained today morning following a protest organized by the journalists in Khartoum asking government to respect press freedom.
And the struggle continues.
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Ki-moon is even more impotent than his predecessor.
He’s waaaaay too diplomatic to the point of being almost pacifistic.
His predecessor was impotent, so he focused on the few people who might actually be bothered by anything the UN does - Western democracies, and Israel.
He did not bother too much about what the UN was meant to do, he merely played a game of pretend - showing on the one hand that the UN was important and effective (after all, look at all it’s been doing for the Palestinians and against Israel), while not focusing even the remotest semblance of attention on those who would simply laugh at him.
At Ban Ki-Moon doesn’t play pretend much, I’ll give him that. Now everyone can ignore the Secretary-General.
Incidentally, I found read this article recently: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,531578,00.html
The main smuggling route for explosives is interesting.
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