Overview
1.Peace in Sudan looks precarious. There is still important uncertainty around Naivasha. The Abuja process is all-but-paralyzed (this briefing is written while Ali Osman Taha and John Garang are still locked in talks in Kenya). The Cairo initiative threatens to become a spoiler for the other two. Focused efforts are needed to consummate Naivasha and [...]

Overview
Peace in Darfur will be complicated and slow. We should not have any illusions that there is a quick fix that can bring peace in a matter of weeks or months. The difficult beginning to the AU negotiations in Addis Ababa on 15-17 July demonstrated this. The rebels made some missteps, but still retain the [...]

Overview
Peace in Darfur will be complicated and slow. We should not have any illusions that there is a quick fix that can bring peace in a matter of weeks or months. The difficult beginning to the AU negotiations in Addis Ababa on 15-17 July demonstrated this. The rebels made some missteps, but still retain the [...]

Overview
1. The last Framework Agreement for peace in Sudan was signed at Naivasha, Kenya, between the Sudan Government and the SPLA on 26 May, followed by a comprehensive framework agreement, the Nairobi Declaration, on 5 June. Twenty-one years after the outbreak of a nasty, brutish and extremely long war, this should have been the cause [...]

Overview
1. Sudan is at the brink of peace and in the depths of war. The internal repercussions of the war in Darfur are proving far more destabilising than the GoS had ever anticipated. This instability interacts with international condemnation, which is increasingly vociferous. The IGAD peace process has been hanging in the balance, but [...]