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Congressman Frank R. Wolf - Human Rights - Sudan

U.S. Senate -

Sudan Peace Act (Engrossed House Amendment)[S.1453.EAH]
- SEC. 8. Reform of Operation Lifeline Sudan
- SEC. 9. Continued use of Non-OLS Organizations for relief efforts
- SEC. 11. New Authority for USAID's Sudan Transition Assistance for Rehabilitation Program
- SEC. 5. Support for the IGAD Peace Process
  - calls on IGAD member states, the European Union, the Organization of African Unity, Egypt, Kenya, Government of Sudan, National Democratic Alliance
Sudan Peace Act (Introduced in the House)[H.R.2906.IH]
Sudan Peace Act (Introduced in the Senate)[S.1453.IS]

Operation Lifeline Sudan - end the veto power of the Government of Sudan over the plans by OLS for air transport relief flights.

US Department of State The Bureau of African Affairs, headed by Assistant Secretary of State Susan E. Rice, advises the Secretary and guides the operation of the U.S. diplomatic establishment in the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. For additional assistance relating to U.S. foreign policy toward Sub-Saharan Africa, please contact the Bureau of African Affairs' Office of Public Affairs at (202) 647-7371.

Background Notes - no Sudan
African Affairs - Sudan out of date
- War Crimes Issues- Atrocity Area- Sudan out of date
Special Projects Page of the USG International Informatics Committee - A Cooperating Information Exchange with the World Bank, the United Nations and ReliefWeb
- South Sudan Project
- The Global Disaster Information Network

The U.S. Agency for International Development - Bureau for Africa Contacts - USAID Bureau for Africa - Country Information no Sudan

Vigilance Soudan - "Vigilance Soudan" association aims at supplying and spreading information and at attracting public attention to the respect of Human Rights and Liberties in the Sudan. The new UN Special Envoy for Human rights in Sudan is Dr Gerhard Baum, Federal minister of Germany (Retired) Background, Quarterly Bulletin Dec 2000, News in brief, Chronology, Maps, Recommended sites

U.S should push Sudan Peace talks -

Center For Strategic & International Studies - J. Stephen Morrison: African affairs and global foreign assistance, Jennifer G. Cooke: African affairs, economic development

Africa Program
- Beyond the Clinton Administration’s Africa Policy
- Forging a New Dialogue on Sudan
- U.S. Policy to End Sudan's War — Final report of the CSIS Sudan Task Force, cochaired by Francis M. Deng and J. Stephen Morrison
  - Oil is fundamentally changing Sudan’s war. It is shifting the balance of military power in favor of Khartoum. It has prompted Khartoum to focus its military efforts, including forced mass displacements of civilians, on oil fields and the pipeline. Oil has also become an integral element of Khartoum’s external partnerships with states and corporations. At the same time, however, the internal coherence and strength of the government in Khartoum remains uncertain and Sudan remains poor. Any Bush administration strategy has to take full account of these realities.
  - The Bush administration should explicitly concentrate U.S. policy toward Sudan on the single, overriding objective of ending the war.
  - The administration should pursue this goal through a disciplined, activist, multilateral strategy.
  - A first priority should be establishing a new international nucleus dedicated to ending Sudan’s war.
America's Sudan Policy - Congressional Testimony - 28 March 2001 by Dr. J. Stephen Morrison
- From July 2000 until February 2001, the Africa Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies sponsored a Task Force on U.S.-Sudan policy, funded by the U.S. Institute of Peace. The purpose was to revitalize debate on Sudan and generate pragmatic recommendations for the new administration. I co-chaired that effort with Francis M. Deng, distinguished professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Working Paper- Resolving Africa's Crises- U.S. Diplomacy and Support to Peace Operations - by Jendayi Frazer, Jeffrey Herbst, and Terrence Lyons

United States Institute of Peace - US Institute of Peace - Sudan - For more information on Institute activities relating to Sudan, contact David R. Smock or Dr. Timothy Sisk - April 12, 1994

Sudan Conflict Web Links-United States Institute of Peace Library and Links

ProfileAfrica - About ProfileAfrica - U.S. to Press Sudan to Halt War on Christians President Names AID Chief as Envoy, Urges Greater Religious Freedom Globally By Mike Allen and Steven Mufson, Washington Post Staff Writers. May 4, 2001.

President Bush announced last night that he will take steps to pressure the government of Sudan, which he called "a disaster area for all human rights," to end its war against Christians and others unwilling to convert to Islam. A variety of Republican constituencies, including Christian conservatives, have called on the administration to do more to stop persecutions by the government of Sudan, Africa's largest country in size, where civil war and famine have cost millions of lives. Bush said he has appointed the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Andrew Natsios, as a special humanitarian coordinator to ensure that U.S. aid to Sudan "goes to the needy, without manipulation by those ravaging that troubled land." "We must turn the eyes of the world upon the atrocities in Sudan," Bush told the American Jewish Committee.

Washington Post

Christians' Plight In Sudan Tests A Bush Stance Evangelicals Urge Intervention, By Steven Mufson, Washington Post Staff Writer, Saturday, March 24, 2001; Page A01 -
- A March 24 article about a coalition urging U.S. intervention on behalf of Sudanese Christians incorrectly reported that Ted Dagne, an Africa expert at the Congressional Research Service, opposes the restaffing of the U.S. embassy in Khartoum. In February, Dagne signed a minority "critique" of a Center for Strategic and International Studies study of Sudan policy in which he took part. The critique's signers favored the appointment of a special envoy to Sudan instead of an ambassador, but otherwise supported the resumption of normal embassy operations in Khartoum.
Wanted- A Sudan Policy - The reason for urgency is oil, which has been discovered in large quantities in the south of the country. The northern government has cut deals with Western and Asian firms to extract the oil, and has ruthlessly razed nearby villages that might provide shelter to the rebels. The first round of oil development -- involving Talisman Energy of Canada, Petronas of Malaysia and China National Petroleum -- is already yielding the government some $500 million a year. The regime has used the cash to double military spending. Now a second round of development -- led by Lundin Oil of Sweden and involving OMV of Austria -- is getting underway. Last week, Lundin (which includes Carl Bildt, Sweden's ex-prime minister, among its directors) announced a "significant and exciting" oil discovery in Sudan. It did not mention the scorched-earth campaign that made the prospecting possible. Nor did it refer to villages such as Chotyiel, which was cleared by soldiers in helicopter gunships and is now no more than an army post called Kilo 15 on an oil road. [Phil Bennett: bennettp@washpost.com, Assistant Managing Editor, Foreign News. Colbert I. King: kingc@washpost.com Editorial page deputy editor, columnist. ?]

Africa Policy - Incorporating American Committee on Africa, The Africa Fund, and Africa Policy Information Center (APIC) Africa Policy Web Site Map

Sudan Policy Proposals - A Critique of the CSIS Report on Sudan, February 25, 2001 Prepared By Roger Winter, Eric Reeves, and Ted Dagne [for more information on this critique contact Alison Seiler at the U.S. Committee for Refugees (aseiler@irsa-uscr.org )]

We Hold These Truths - Missionaries, Mercenaries, Missiles & Money by C.E. Carlson - The Untold Story of the War on the Children of Sudan

Rebuilding the Infrastructure of a War Torn Nation by Raymond Chisholm - Chisholm prepared this report on the road construction work he was doing in Sudan to try and educate the US Congress and US people on some of the emergency needs of the Southern Sudanese People. He is trying to convince Congress to backup their rhetoric with action. Sudan and all Africa countries need our help.

"More people have been killed in the Sudan Civil War than any war since the Second World War. More than Kosovo, Somalia, Rwanda, Chechnya and Bosnia combined," according to U.S. Congressman Frank Wolf.

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