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1.	Rhetoric and reality: The failure to resolve the Darfur conflict
	Author: Julie Flint	Date Written: 3 February 2010
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: swisspeace Sudan Platform
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.smallarmssurvey.org
	Key Words: Sudan, Darfur, conflict, rhetoric and reality,
	Summary & Comment: "This Working Paper, based on interviews with mediators, government officials, humanitarian workers, and militia and rebel leaders traces the troubled history of peace efforts after Abuja. It attributes their failure to the interplay of a flawed process and an unfavourable context—including a lack of will among the Sudanese parties, a breakdow . . . [expand]
2.	Uni. Simon Fraser et les guerres au Soudan et en RDC
	Author: Jean-Philippe Rémy	Date Written: 2 February 2010
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: Le Monde via AfricaCanada Forum
	Secondary Category: Central Region	Source URL:
	Key Words: Soudan, Sudan, RDC, DRC, Simon Fraser, guerres,
	Summary & Comment: "Les chercheurs de l’université Simon Fraser, en Colombie-Britannique, au Canada, qui publient en cette fin janvier un nouveau rapport de leur série Human Security Report, intitulé "La diminution des pertes humaines dans les guerres", arrivent à une série de conclusions qui méritent toutefois d’être regardées de près." DN
3.	Will the Obama administration truly support an independent South Sudan?
	Author: Eric Reeves	Date Written: 30 January 2010
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: Sudan Tribune
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.sudantribune.com
	Key Words: CPA, US policy, South Sudan
	Summary & Comment: "The evidence of recent months suggests that there is an increasingly grim logic governing the military and geographic future of southern Sudan—and a correspondingly urgent need for focused international diplomacy over the next year."
4.	Ensure free and fair April election process
	Author: HRW, New York	Date Written: 24 January 2010
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: Human Rights Watch
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.hrw.org/en
	Key Words: Sudan, election, process, abuses, violations,
	Summary & Comment: Violations of civil and political rights by Sudanese security forces throughout the country seriously undermine prospects for free, fair, and credible elections in April 2010, Human Rights Watch says. DN
5.	Drought, insecurity hurting food production in South
	Author: IRIN, Juba	Date Written: 11 January 2010
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: IRIN News
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL:
	Key Words: food security, South Sudan
	Summary & Comment: Several states in Southern Sudan are facing food shortages due to widespread drought and conflict, officials are saying.
6.	Sudan’s Bashir steps down as army chief, wins re-election backing from 20 parties
	Author: Sudan Tribune, Khartoum	Date Written: 11 January 2010
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: Sudan Tribune
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.sudantribune.com
	Key Words: al Bashir, elections, NCP
	Summary & Comment: "The Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir issued a decree late Monday, relieving himself from the position of the general commander of the armed forces in a procedural step required in order for him to run in the upcoming presidential elections as nominee of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP)."
7.	Remarks on fifth anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement
	Author: US State Department	Date Written: 8 January 2010
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: AllAfrica.com
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://allafrica.com
	Key Words: Peace, CPA, South Sudan, US policy
	Summary & Comment: US State Department officials and Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, comment on the state of the CPA on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement.