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NEW ARTICLE - "Darfur: The World's Most Famous Humanitarian Disaster"
See our new article in New Politics magazine, on the various crises afflicting Sudan.

NEW ARTICLE - "Allergic to Dissent: Khartoum and Washington"
Check our new article in Foreign Policy in Focus, on the recent Sudanese elections as well as US policy towards Sudan and Africa as a whole.

NEW ARTICLE - "How much does Washington care about African democracy?"

Read our opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times.
NEW ARTICLE - "Elections in Sudan: Not the Only Sham in Town"

Read our commentary on the upcoming elections in Sudan at the blog FireDog Lake.

BOOK REVIEW - Nasredeen Abdulbari

The Sudanese lawyer and academic Nasredeen Abdulbari has published a review of our book on Alex de Waal's blog, Making Sense of Darfur.

INTERVIEW - transcript of communication with Abdel Moneim Elhoweris

We conducted the following interview with Abdel Moneim Elhoweris - a Sudanese consultant and activist whom we met in Khartoum and later corresponded with - during the course of researching our article, "Uncertainty in Sudan," for the April 2009 issue of In These Times magazine. His views on sanctions toward Sudan are of particular interest, as are his insights into Sudanese political dynamics. Unfortunately, very little of the interview made it into the final article. Read more

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Kevin Funk and Steven Fake have written a devastating critique of the ‘humanitarian’ response of the United States to the Darfur crisis, while offering a genuine humane alternative that would lessen the ordeal, if not bring it to an end. Well-researched, easy to read, and utterly convincing, a crucial book for anyone concerned about achieving a morally and politically acceptable U.S. foreign policy.