The Sudan government is using aid in the pursuit of a far-reaching strategy of social and political transformation, creating displacement and hunger—with the ready connivance of the UN and NGOs. Effective famine prevention in Sudan means challenging the charitable...
This is a detailed account of the 1985-89 period of conflict in southern Sudan and the Sudanese government’s use of famine as a weapon of war. The Sudan government regularly blocked food from reaching civilians and diverted food aid to its army. The liberal...
Al Bashir and the Sudanese government have been indiscriminately brutal in their conduct of the war in southern Sudan. The famine of 1986-89 was primarily caused by deliberate policies adopted by the SPLA and the Sudanese government. The Reagan and Bush...
In 2004, Darfur, Sudan was described as the "world's greatest humanitarian crisis." Twenty years previously, Darfur was also the site of a disastrous famine. Famine that Kills is a seminal account of that famine, and a social history of the region. In a new preface...