Ten years ago, the people of Darfur began resisting the oppression suffered at the hands of President Bashir's regime. Since then, the non-Arab Darfuri population has been systematically killed, raped and tortured. Despite the international community condemning the regime - with David Cameron claiming in 2008 that the UK could...

For the last ten years the government of Sudan has been ethnically cleansing Darfur of its non-Arab population. Although a battle for scarce resources and climate change are important factors, at the heart of the conflict is the Khartoum regime's vision of a Sudan that excludes non-Arabs and non-Muslims. Centuries...

Finally protests have erupted in Sudan - but unfortunately an Arab Spring is yet to unfold.

Last Friday crowds protesting about the controversial anti-Muslim video broke into the German embassy in Khartoum, and then besieged the American and British diplomatic compounds. The White House declared it would send 50 Marines...

The UN Security Council has taken it's time, but at last demonstrated that it does not have to be permanently paralysed by divergent national interests on Sudan and South Sudan. Bickering while these two countries teeter on the brink of war has ceased, at least for now.

If Eleanor Roosevelt, the dynamic force behind the foundation of the United Nations, could see what is happening in Syria right now, no doubt she would weep. She would likely agree with Hillary Clinton, who last week called for Security Council unity to tackle the "horrific campaign of violence" that...