[Montréal, Québec, Canada 19°C] The report, Sudan 2012: Scenarios for the future, was released in the Hague on September 1, 2009. It takes an interesting and original approach to the problems of Sudan by looking ahead, past the much talked about 2011 referendum, to what Sudan could be like in 2012 based an four scenarios [...]
Posts Tagged ‘referendum’
Juba Declaration By Southern Sudan Women
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 18°C] The upcoming 2010 elections in Sudan and the 2011 self-determination referendum for Southern Sudan, are fraught with many important challenges for everyone involved. But the challenges are probably greatest for women, both in the voting process and for representation in the respective legislatures.
According to a recent Inter Press Service (IPS) article, [...]
Khartoum Government Undermining South Sudan Self-Determination Referendum
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 22°C] There is a growing body of evidence that democracy in Sudan is being seriously stifled prior to the country’s April 2010 general elections, the first since 1986. An interesting 13-page report by Eric Reeves detailed, Khartoum’s Strategic Assault on Southern Self-Determination Referendum.
Southern Sudan’s right to a self-determination referendum, scheduled for 2011 [...]
Challenges Facing Sudan’s April 2010 National Elections
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 20°C] In a previous post, I write about returning to Southern Sudan, how my first visit only increased my appetite for more. How little I knew about the place then and how much more I want to know about it now. The upcoming all-Sudan general elections that everyone-following-Sudan is talking about, [...]
Post-conflict development in southern Sudan: my first assignment
[MONTRÉAL] As you may have noticed by reading the About page that my first international assignement is in South Sudan where I will initiate my new direction in video reporting and documentary film.
I’ve been asked over and over again, “Why Sudan?!” My immediate response — and the one which flows generously from my lips [...]
