Rajiv Shah, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), told a House Appropriations subcommittee Wednesday that the passage of the House Continuing Resolution would have a devastating impact on developing areas around the world.
To the State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs subcommittee, Shah said: More…
Just out from the White House: a statement from President Obama on a new strategy to deal with both the genocide in Darfur and the continuing internal crisis in Sudan. The administration’s envoy, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Scott Gration, has faced criticism for being too soft on the More…
Some days they make laws, and some days they break them.
Five House Democrats were arrested Monday during a protest at the Sudanese embassy in Washington. The lawmakers — Reps. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Donna Edwards (D-Md.), Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) and John Lewis (D-Ga.) — were demonstrating against More…
“A terrible humanitarian crises compounded by a cruel and corrupt regime in Khartoum.” There’s another strategy review on Darfur. “We intend to bring as many people along as we can to fulfill the [African Union] mandate.” The top officials “have spoken of other options: no fly zones, other sanctions and More…
In April 2007, as the United States was enmeshed in two wars, a Brookings Institution scholar and Clinton-era State Dept. official testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in favor of taking military action as a last resort to stop the genocide in Darfur.
“A collective shame” was what Susan More…
In a little-noted comment from Thursday’s vice presidential debate, Gov. Sarah Palin was quick to take credit for a push among some Alaskan lawmakers to pull the state’s investments in Sudan — a recognition of the country’s years-long Darfur genocide:
When I and others in the legislature found
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