Show Producer’s Blog: R2P

Before I was a show producer I was a reporter. My first overseas assignment was Kosovo in 1999. Since that experience, much of my reporting has revolved around war and its awfulness, and questions about humanitarian intervention, civilian protection, and justice for war crimes [...]

The Tight Ties Between Sudan’s President and China

China has been an important backer of the Sudanese leader. But that support has been controversial.

Why Libya is different from Darfur

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The military intervention in Libya unfolded relatively quickly. Just over a month passed between the first protest in Libya and the first airstrikes. Compare that with the Darfur crisis where mass atrocities unfolded for years while the UN Security Council wrangled over what to do. The World’s Jeb Sharp considers the reasons for the difference. Download MP3
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Signs of unrest in Sudan

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The World’s Marco Werman interviews Rebecca Hamilton, author of Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide. Download MP3

Fighting for Darfur

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Marco Werman interviews Rebecca Hamilton, about her new book Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide. Download MP3

Nigerian Cartoonist Tayo Fatunla

Here’s a concept: political cartoons about Africa….by an African political cartoonist. Nigerian Tayo Fatunla has been making visual comments — sometimes funny, sometimes quite somber — on the politics of his home country, Nigeria, and the rest of Africa, for decades. Tayo Fatunla joins The World’s Carol Hills in this narrated cartoon slideshow featuring a selection of the Nigerian cartoonist’s work from the past decade.
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Treating mental illness in Sudan

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Traditionally, when people in Sudan suffer mental illness, they seek out exorcists and other spiritual healers. But in Khartoum, a growing number of patients are also seeing Western-style psychiatrists and psychologists. The result is a tense rapprochement between health practitioners who have historically been at odds. Hana Baba has our story from the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.

Elections in Sudan

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This episode of the history podcast features a conversation with historian Justin Willis of Durham University in the U.K. He tells us about Sudanese elections past and present and why this particular election seems like a lost opportunity that will likely lead to the persistence of authoritarian forms of government in Sudan. Download MP3

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Entire program – August 28, 2009

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Today on The World: The head of a peacekeeping force in Darfur says there is no more war in Sudan’s troubled region; Also, Iran’s opposition leaders continue to accuse the government of torturing and killing citizens arrested during election protests, Plus: why Muslims in Malaysia will have to sit out next month’s Black-Eyed Peas concert.

Darfur refugees still suffering in Chad

A new report from Physicians for Human Rights documents the impact of rape and sexual violence on Darfuri women refugees living in Chad. Many women live with the trauma of attacks that happened when they first fled Darfur. But those are compounded by the ongoing daily threat of rape in and around the camps where [...]