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Home Briefings 15 October 2009 - Waging Peace seminar: Spotlight on Sudan: addressing the country's multiple conflict

15 October 2009 - Waging Peace seminar: Spotlight on Sudan: addressing the country's multiple conflict

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The two hour seminar is aimed at getting 15-20 Sudan experts together and facilitating discussions on urgent action needed to address the situation in Sudan.

With six months to go before the elections and just over a year before the referendum on the secession of the South, Waging Peace is hosting a seminar entitled Spotlight on Sudan: addressing the country's multiple conflict, an exclusive policy roundtable event.

The two hour seminar planned on 15 October will provide an opportunity to discuss recent developments on the ground in Sudan and the urgent need for international concerted action, in particular in light of the upcoming elections.

The event will be chaired by Mike Thompson of the BBC and speakers will include Louise Roland-Gosselin, Director of Waging Peace, Mukesh Kapila, former UN resident humanitarian coordinator in Sudan in 2004  and Tawanda Hondora, Deputy Africa Program manager at Amnesty International Secretariat.

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1 June 2010, letter in the Guardian, 'African Democracy and Human Rights'

 

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Tuesday 1 June 2010, Louise Roland-Gosselin

 

The snubbing of the inauguration of Omar al-Bashir by Britain and the US, (World leaders stay away as Bashir sworn in for new term in Sudan, 28 May) demonstrates the hypocritical stance world leaders continue to take to the Sudanese president. In April, the international community accepted the results of Sudan's deeply flawed elections, despite evidence of ballot-box stuffing, political intimidation and violence at polling stations, in the hope of keeping cordial relations with Bashir. His indictment by the international criminal court for war crimes and crimes against humanity has been almost completely sidelined and it is believed that the US is preparing to lift trade sanctions on Sudan. Better relations with Bashir, it is thought, will bring peace to Sudan – yet talks on Darfur are at a standstill and the government continues to bomb Darfur's Jebel Marra with impunity.

For over five years the world has pandered to Sudan behind closed doors, publicly issuing empty threats, which have resulted in conditions for the people of Sudan only becoming more desperate. It is time that Cameron and Obama took seriously the threat of a man who has killed over 2 million of his own civilians.