STAND Conflict Update: Week of July 14, 2019
Sudan and South Sudan Sudan After Mohamed Mattar, a Sudanese engineering student, was killed protecting two people during the massacre of protesters in Khartoum on June 3rd, his blue profile… Read more…
Sudan and South Sudan Sudan After Mohamed Mattar, a Sudanese engineering student, was killed protecting two people during the massacre of protesters in Khartoum on June 3rd, his blue profile… Read more…
Syria ISIS, also known as the Islamic State, has this week seized up to one third of the strategically important Syrian border town of Kobani. Reuters reports that although the… Read more…
10. South Sudanese President Kiir fires his cabinet 9. African Union begins investigating Sudan and South Sudan’s opposing claims that they are supporting rebels in each other’s territory 8. Darfuris launch new attack on central… Read more…
This post, written by Danny Hirschel-Burns, our Policy Coordinator, is the fourth in our “Countries to Watch” series, which focuses on developing conflicts. Read our previous Country to Watch posts… Read more…
This piece, written by Danny Hirschel-Burns, from Swarthmore College STAND, originally appeared on his blog The Widening Lens. Following France’s intervention in northern Mali four days ago, the prospects for a rebel advance… Read more…