Scramble For Africa's blog

The Africa Human Security Working Group has a sample script to call the White House to register public opposition to Washington increasing military support to Uganda and Somalia.

A brief 2007 video by Christian Parenti that explores the logging industry in the DR Congo.

Via As'ad AbuKhalil's blog:

Al-Akhbar broke this story first: Anger towards Lebanon is brewing in Sudan

An Oxfam spokesperson recently stated that:

“International attention has turned away from Darfur at a time when it is desperately needed. Recent fighting has killed hundreds of people, forced thousands from their homes and hindered access to some of the worst affected areas for months. In areas such as Eastern Jebel Marra, humanitarian workers do not have any access at all."

See our new article in New Politics magazine, on the current state of Sudan's assorted crises.

Though the question of whether actual "genocide" ever occurred in Darfur rests on academic distinctions, virtually nobody thinks that it's still occurring there now - except Mia Farrow.

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.

Allergic to Dissent: Khartoum and Washington

By Steve Fake and Kevin Funk, May 17, 2010

AFP reports on Egyptian antipathy (with a wink from Israel) towards Sudanese refugees:

From Asha Elkarib, a Sudanese social justice activist and member of Tamam - a network for Sudanese civil society groups and NGOs. Through her involvement in Tamam, she acted as an election monitor in the recent Sudanese general elections:

On May 13, protesters from Africa Action and ACT UP, among others, held a civil disobedience protest outside a Democratic Party fundraiser in NYC to protest Obama's record on AIDS programs. As one protester put it: "he has consistently cut funding to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief."