Strategic Thinking on East Africa

  The UN’s Security Council is set to extend the mandate of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea (SEMG) for a year and will not lift the sanctions on Eritrea for at least another year, according to draft resolution that has been circulated. SEMG Report Summarized In a 93-page SEMG report that the Sanctions […]

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A wide view of the Security Council in session. UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz (file) 23 October 2015 – The United Nations Security Council today extended the arms embargo on Somalia until 15 November 2016 while reaffirming the country’s sovereignty over its natural resources, while also reaffirming its arms embargo on Eritrea. Adopting a new resolution by […]

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From The Sudan Tribune September 2, 2015 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan’s foreign minister Ibrahim Ghandour has criticized the United Nations saying the international organization fell under the domination of some powerful countries. Sudan’s foreign minister Ibrahim Ghandour, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventieth session on 2 October 2015 (Photo UN/Cia Pak) He told […]

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September 28, 2015 (JUBA) - A senior South Sudanese official at foreign service office said his government will not allow what he called western countries to impose sanctions on officials or the government over non implementation of the recently signed peace agreement in August between president Salva Kiir and armed opposition leader, Riek Machar. South […]

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From African Arguments by Ahmed Badawi US sanctions have not worked and the factors that led to the embargo have changed. A rapprochement would be in both US and Sudanese interests. The sun may have started to set on his tenure in office, but US President Barack Obama seems to have no intention of slipping into cruise control with […]

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From the Sudan Tribune September 11, 2015 (MOSCOW) – Sudanese and South Sudanese foreign ministers have teamed up in calling on the Russian Federation to reject looming sanctions likely to be imposed on South Sudan by the United Nations Security Council. South Sudanese Foreign Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin (L) meets with Sudanese counterpart Ibrahim Ghandour […]

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  KHARTOUM, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) — Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour said Tuesday that he is expecting to meet U.S. State Secretary John Kerry later in New York on lifting U.S. sanctions on Sudan and excluding the country from a U.S. list of countries sponsoring terrorism. The meeting will take place on the sidelines of […]

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Council members express readiness to act if nation’s leader fails to sign power-sharing deal with rebels on Wednesday. Kiir is scheduled to sign the power-sharing agreement in Juba on Wednesday [AP] The UN Security Council has warned that it is ready to “act immediately” if South Sudan’s president does not sign a peace deal with […]

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Addis Ababa, 17 August 2015 (WIC) - South Sudanese government announced on Sunday readiness to sign a revised version of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), despite public criticism and protest of the armed opposition leadership under the former vice president turned rebel leader, Riek Machar. South Sudanese foreign affairs and international cooperation minister, Barnaba Marial […]

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From the Sudan Tribune June 14, 2015 (ADDIS ABABA) – The African Union’s (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) in a strongly worded statement has threatened to take measures against any warring party in South Sudan that will continue to defy continental and international peace efforts aimed to end the 18-month long civil war in […]

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