My book is all set for its launch next month, which is one of the reasons why my Middle East blog has been a little quiet. Over at South of West though I've updated things with a bit more on......more
Rob Crilly - African Safari
Recently in Darfur Category
Darfur: A New Deadly Chapter... Or Maybe Not
The Independent's splash makes for powerful reading...The Lord's Resistance Army, one of the most feared guerrilla groups in Africa, has moved into Darfur, one of the continent's most troubled regions, intelligence sources in Sudan say.The unexpected move by the LRA......more
I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That
I've long been a fan of Ben Goldacre's column Bad Science in The Guardian and his blog. It won't surprise you to know that his use of rational thought and scientific evidence to dispel deliberate quackery and ill-thought out mumbo......more
Evidence vs Dogma in Darfur
After six years of violence, the war in Darfur is over, according to a man who should know. General Martin Luther Agwai was handed mission impossible two years ago - setting up the joint UN and AU peacekeeping job. In......more
Endorsements
So the second draft is done. There is more editing ahead, and the afterword will probably be redone to take account of ongoing developments in Darfur. But the back is broken, the end is in sight etc.My publisher has read......more
Don't Send Me Home, says Refugee
Been busy with other things so have missed a few gems over the past few weeks, so I'll be catching up on a few oldies starting with this in the Sudan Tribune... The chairman of Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) Abdel-Wahid Al-Nur dismissed......more
The Future of Darfur Advocacy
Over at The Promise of Engagement my good friend Bec Hamilton, who is researching a book on Darfur, kicks off a debate on the future of advocacy...Alex de Waal and Nick Kristof come from relatively different ends of the Darfur......more
Shoddy Deals for Darfur
So you may remember that a few weeks ago I wondered what had prompted three NGOs - smeared, criminalised, intimidated - expelled from Darfur to consider returning. With no guarantees that the same thing wouldn't happen all over again once......more
Gambling for Sudan
I'm generally in favour of celebrities getting involved in awareness raising campaigns for Africa's miserable assortment of wars. And, while destroying children's toys for Darfur appeared to show a slight misunderstanding of the nature of kids' playthings in this part......more
Microwaving the Frog in Darfur
Here's how one of my aid worker friends put it: "It's like the boiling frog. If you had said to us at the start of the Darfur emergency that this is where we would end up, then no-one would have......more
Rob Crilly in Jerusalem
Rob Crilly is a freelance journalist based in Jerusalem writing for The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Mail. He spent...