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Eric Reeves

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Eric Reeves is professor of English language and literature at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He has spent the past seven years working full-time as a Sudan researcher and analyst, publishing extensively both in the US and internationally. He has testified several times before the congress, has lectured widely in academic settings, and has served as a consultant to a number of human rights and humanitarian organisations operating in Sudan. Working independently, he has written on all aspects of Sudan's recent history, and is author of the recently released A Long Day's Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide.

August 2011

  • A woman Khartoum

    Poverty matters blog
    Sudan's self-inflicted economic distress

    Eric Reeves: The Khartoum regime's mismanagement, cronyism, profligate military expenditure and exorbitant self-enrichment has brought economic disaster to Sudan

June 2009

  • Whitewashing Darfur

    Eric Reeves

    Eric Reeves: Scholars are attempting to minimise the scale of the Darfur genocide in order to undermine calls for intervention

December 2008

  • Regime change in Sudan isn't enough

    Eric Reeves

    Eric Reeves: Even if Omar al-Bashir is arrested for war crimes, other members of his regime will continue the genocide in Darfur

July 2008

  • Turning up the heat in Darfur

    Eric Reeves

    Eric Reeves: The indictment of Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir for war crimes won't make Darfur more dangerous that it already is

June 2008

  • Darfur's perfect storm

    Eric Reeves

    Eric Reeves: Heavy rain and continuing violence are threatening UN food aid to Darfur just at the moment that refugees need it most

November 2007

October 2007

August 2007

June 2007

  • The UN's bloody failure

    Eric Reeves

    Eric Reeves: Ban Ki-moon's self-serving and preposterous explanations obscure the real reasons for the crisis in Darfur.

May 2007

  • Paving the road to hell

    Eric Reeves

    Eric Reeves: Bush says his new sanctions will stop genocide in Darfur, but they only show Sudan that America is unwilling to take serious measures.

January 2007

  • A tragedy without end

    Eric Reeves

    Eric Reeves: The deteriorating security situation and Khartoum's intransigence is causing genocide by attrition in Darfur.

November 2006

  • Calling their bluff

    Eric Reeves

    Eric Reeves: While Tony Blair and the Bush administration have yet again resumed their tough talk on Darfur, action to intervene looks unlikely.

October 2006

  • Death in Darfur

    Eric Reeves

    Eric Reeves: The story of a former Janjaweed fighter who fled to the UK shows beyond doubt that a second wave of genocide has begun.

September 2006

  • A predictable disaster

    Eric Reeves

    Eric Reeves: Our failure to act in Darfur is little more than acquiescence before genocide.

August 2006

  • Darfur's downward spiral

    Eric Reeves

    Eric Reeves: Violence continues to escalate in Sudan. Can we avert a catastrophe?

May 2006

  • A cruel joke is played on Darfur

    Eric Reeves

    Eric Reeves: International powers are talking about urgent action to enforce peace. But where are the troops?