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Sudan – Southern Secession, Oil, and Debt Relief

September 17, 2010
This post also appeared on the Huffington Post. Next week, President Obama, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and other global leaders will meet with Sudanese leadership to discuss the upcoming referendum. The stakes are huge. In January, southern Sudanese will vote on whether to secede and...
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Kimberley Process Keeps the Door Open for Zimbabwean Democracy

June 24, 2010
This blog post also appeared on the Huffington Post. For four days, forty-nine Kimberley Process members were holed up in Tel Aviv contemplating Zimbabwe’s future. Countries like South Africa, Israel, the European Community, and the United States were deadlocked over whether to continue their ex...