FP Passport takes a look at Guinea (and China).
While Reuters asks if Darfur is getting too much attention, Making Sense of Darfur briefs us on the recent African Union report and lists “ten good reasons why Sudan is doomed to chaos“:
In [a] few months, conflict will escalate in both Darfur and the South and all the dreams about the CPA implementation will shatter into pieces.
The differences between the North and the South will surface and become more difficult to manage and eventually result in armed clashes.
Traditional political parties will see an opportunity to overthrow the government and replace Beshir and as a result will conspire to fuel the tensions and provide assistance and support to the armed groups on all the active and dormant fronts.
With the failure of the elections to take place in 2010 (for the reasons presented below) and the frustration of the South that the referendum will not take place as well, confrontations between the government forces and the SPLA will intensify with possible declaration of an independent South Sudan state, supported by the USA that will use its advocacy machine to criminalize the Beshir government and that it did not respect the CPA and might eventually call for military intervention and a UN monitored and protected referendum.
Pretty gloomy. We’ll have to see.
Kal writes about riots in Algiers.
The Project on Middle East Democracy points us to a piece at Democracy Digest on the Obama administration and democracy promotion.
The Obama administration had downplayed, but not downgraded democracy as a foreign policy objective, Anne-Marie Slaughter, the State Department’s head of policy planning, told Democracy Digest this week.
“Give us time,” was her response to critics who cite changes to Egyptian NGO funding and cuts to Iranian human rights groups to charge the administration with backtracking on democracy. Rejecting the suggestion that the administration was over-reacting to the perceived excesses of the Bush administration’s Freedom Agenda, she nevertheless accepted that adjustments had been made.
Finally, Africa is a Country summarizes a New York Times article on relations between West African immigrants and African-Americans in the Bronx.
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