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Progress Report

November 2009

Sudan

Engaging international partners on the Darfur conflict

An overview of progress made on a select number of actions recommended by the InterAction NGO community in the 2008 Foreign Assistance Briefing Book on Critical Problems, Recommendations, and Actions for the Obama Administration and the 111th Congress.

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The crisis in Sudan is a web of conflicts. The 2005 peace agreement to end decades of war in southern Sudan is at risk of collapsing. In Darfur, conflict, widespread human rights abuses and mass displacement continue after five years, humanitarian access is severely reduced, and the peace process has made no progress. A peace agreement for the East is also languishing unimplemented.

Action Recommended November 2008 Engage European, Chinese and regional African and Arab partners to increase and coordinate pressure on the many parties to the Darfur conflict to respect international humanitarian law, and agree and adhere to existing ceasefire agreements.

Overall Progress as of November 2009 Comments and Evidence: Special Envoy Scott Gration has been reaching out to international partners—including the Libyans and the Chinese—to build international consensus on the way forward on Darfur.