Showing posts with label civilWar. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 19, 2011
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
PoliticsSudan: Civil War in Darfur: The site of genocide has produced 2 opposition forces, govt genocidist Bashir unapprended
Sudan Tribune -- plural news and views on Sudan Mar2,2k11)
Sudan and JEM rebels start peace talks
this week – Darfur mediator
March 1, 2011 (PARIS) - Sudanese government and rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) will resume direct talks this week in Doha, the Joint Chief Negotiator, Djibril Bassolé announced Tuesday in a press conference held in Paris.
The mediation circulated last week a new compromise proposals on six pending issues in the talks between the government and Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM). JEM said direct negotiations are needed to elucidate and mark its positions on different issues.
Joint Chief Mediator Djibril Bassole talking in a press
conference held in Paris on 1 March 2011 (ST)
Presidential adviser in charge with Darfur file Ghazi Salah Al-Deen, during a short visit to Doha, agreed to resume talks with JEM rebels in a meeting held Monday with the Qatari state minister for foreign affairs Ahmed bin Abdullah Al-Mahmoud.
"We are on track to achieve a comprehensive peace in Darfur. The government and JEM delegations will resume direct talks next Thursday as other members of the rebel delegation are arriving to Doha, Bassole told Sudan Tribune later when he asked to elaborate on the issue.
He further said the two warring parties would start talks with the human rights chapter.
The head of the government negotiating delegation, Amin Hassan Omer, told the SMC today that they expect the mediation would deliver the final draft of the peace agreement before the 15th March as they plan to launch the Darfur-Darfur Dialogue on this date.
Since December, the Sudanese government said it was resolved to hold an internal process for dialogue among Darfur social and political forces which is seen as more productive to bring peace in the restive region.
Asked about another initiative excluding the rebel movements carried by head of the AU Panel Thabo Mbeki,(former Prez South Africa) he said the rebels are an offshoot of Darfur society and as such they should be at the center of any peace agreement.
He further added that the Doha approach is based on the conjunction of efforts that civil society and rebels can do together for the sake of peace in Darfur. "No one can exclude the other but both would work toward the same goal".
Khartoum had withdrawn its negotiating team from Doha Last December and stopped talks with JEM on a cessation of hostilities agreement. But the rebel delegation remained in Doha.
Regarding the situation of JEM leader who is currently in Tripoli where the embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi faces growing popular revolt, Bassole called on the all the partners of the Darfur peace process to provide the needed support to facilitate the departure of Khalil Ibrahim from Libya.
He told reporters that Khalil Ibrahim agreed with him before the uprising to return to Doha and they were preparing to transport him to Doha.
Also, Bassole said every effort is needed to encourage Minnawi’s recommitment to the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA). He pointed out that his disengagement from the 2006 deal will not push the other rebel groups to agree with the government to end the eight year conflict.
He however said favorable to combine the DPA with the expected Doha peace agreement within the framework of an integrated process. "We have to see how the different peace deals can come together".
The joint mediator said that rebels’ cohesion remains a condition without which viable peace would be difficult to achieve.
-- Sudan Tribune materials posted by Politicarp
Further sources:
* Obama admin decouples Darfur (Sudan Tribune via Africa Files; Africa Infor Serv, 13 Dec2k10)
"The relationship between Darfur and Southern Sudan has never been well understood by the Obama administration, largely because of the incompetence of the president’s special envoy to Sudan, retired Air Force General Scott Gration...." GK
The mediation circulated last week a new compromise proposals on six pending issues in the talks between the government and Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM). JEM said direct negotiations are needed to elucidate and mark its positions on different issues.
Joint Chief Mediator Djibril Bassole talking in a press
conference held in Paris on 1 March 2011 (ST)
Presidential adviser in charge with Darfur file Ghazi Salah Al-Deen, during a short visit to Doha, agreed to resume talks with JEM rebels in a meeting held Monday with the Qatari state minister for foreign affairs Ahmed bin Abdullah Al-Mahmoud.
"We are on track to achieve a comprehensive peace in Darfur. The government and JEM delegations will resume direct talks next Thursday as other members of the rebel delegation are arriving to Doha, Bassole told Sudan Tribune later when he asked to elaborate on the issue.
He further said the two warring parties would start talks with the human rights chapter.
The head of the government negotiating delegation, Amin Hassan Omer, told the SMC today that they expect the mediation would deliver the final draft of the peace agreement before the 15th March as they plan to launch the Darfur-Darfur Dialogue on this date.
Since December, the Sudanese government said it was resolved to hold an internal process for dialogue among Darfur social and political forces which is seen as more productive to bring peace in the restive region.
Asked about another initiative excluding the rebel movements carried by head of the AU Panel Thabo Mbeki,(former Prez South Africa) he said the rebels are an offshoot of Darfur society and as such they should be at the center of any peace agreement.
He further added that the Doha approach is based on the conjunction of efforts that civil society and rebels can do together for the sake of peace in Darfur. "No one can exclude the other but both would work toward the same goal".
Khartoum had withdrawn its negotiating team from Doha Last December and stopped talks with JEM on a cessation of hostilities agreement. But the rebel delegation remained in Doha.
Regarding the situation of JEM leader who is currently in Tripoli where the embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi faces growing popular revolt, Bassole called on the all the partners of the Darfur peace process to provide the needed support to facilitate the departure of Khalil Ibrahim from Libya.
He told reporters that Khalil Ibrahim agreed with him before the uprising to return to Doha and they were preparing to transport him to Doha.
Also, Bassole said every effort is needed to encourage Minnawi’s recommitment to the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA). He pointed out that his disengagement from the 2006 deal will not push the other rebel groups to agree with the government to end the eight year conflict.
He however said favorable to combine the DPA with the expected Doha peace agreement within the framework of an integrated process. "We have to see how the different peace deals can come together".
The joint mediator said that rebels’ cohesion remains a condition without which viable peace would be difficult to achieve.
-- Sudan Tribune materials posted by Politicarp
Further sources:
* Obama admin decouples Darfur (Sudan Tribune via Africa Files; Africa Infor Serv, 13 Dec2k10)
"The relationship between Darfur and Southern Sudan has never been well understood by the Obama administration, largely because of the incompetence of the president’s special envoy to Sudan, retired Air Force General Scott Gration...." GK
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
PoliticsLibya: Gadaffi regroups: Country in full revolutionary mode, civil war, genocide
EuroNews offers the above video (acknowleging some foutage courtesy of OneDayOnEarth).
The UN has been cawt out napping again, on this occasion by Guardian commenter Carne Ross who "spent four and a half years negotiating resolutions on the Middle East at the UN Security Council." Instead of a resolution with teeth, the UN folks issued a perfunctory news release instead, with the usual platitudes, but not even a mention of the genocidal attacks on civilians. Now, the European Union is going ahead with its own response, one that will apparently include sanctions (Bloomberg). The USA likewise (Agence Presse France).
Catch Telegraph's excellent coverage in these stories:
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Libyans told on Wednesday of how they were forced to form lynchmobs against foreign mercenaries that were despatched by Col Muammar Gaddafi to visit terror on revolting citizens.
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Forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi make good on threats to trigger a civil war in Libya by taking up positions across the capital and launching a rearguard fight against rebels in major cities.
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Libyan army abandon their Tobruk base
The Libyan army has abandoned the secretive anti-aircraft missile base at Tobruk base as anti-government protesters seize control of the city.
23 Feb 2011
Libya's neighbours have a duty to help its people
Telegraph View: Are other Arab leaders so intent on saving their own necks, or so wary of fomenting insurrection elsewhere, that they will do nothing beyond denouncing Gaddafi?
23 Feb 2011
-- back from illness, Politicarp
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