Is Sudan Heading for Civil War?
What About Darfur?
Sudan Dispatch: Can the South Reach Its Full Potential?
Sudan Dispatch: What About the Women?
Juba and Bentiu, Sudan—Southern Sudan’s Interim Constitution, which came into effect in 2005, stipulates a 25 percent quota for women’s participation across all levels of regional and national government. Six years later, in the wake of a referendum that will give the south full independence, women hold 19 percent of the positions in the south’s legislative assembly. And those favoring a new southern nation say women will see this number go up under independence. READ MORE >>
Sudan Dispatch: Exhausted By Diplomacy
Sudan Dispatch: Uncertainty in Abyei
Sudan Dispatch: The Coming Struggle
Sudan Dispatch: Homeward Bound
Sudan Dispatch: Reasons for Voting
Bentiu, Sudan—Nyakuoth Jon arrived at a local polling station at 3 a.m. on Sunday, when voting began in southern Sudan’s self-determination referendum. Even at that early hour, she found many people already crowded in line. Jon, the mother of nine children, sat on the ground outside the station (which, any other day, serves as a primary school) for five hours until the voting booths opened. As she told me, there was no question that she would wait that long: Jon wanted to be make sure she cast her ballot on the first day of the week-long vote. READ MORE >>
