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Rebecca Hamilton, a fellow at the New America Foundation and author of a book on US foreign policy toward Darfur, called the creation of the Atrocities Prevention Board an "historic first step." "It is the first time that the US government has ...

Judy Woodruff discusses the challenges that the young country faces with the Pulitzer Center's Rebecca Hamilton, who has covered Sudan for years. She recently reported from there for the NewsHour and The Washington Post. JUDY WOODRUFF: And we turn to ...

The map of Africa will be redrawn Saturday, as South Sudan becomes an independent nation through a peace process championed by successive U.S. presidents but still beset by lingering tensions from years of war.

President George W. Bush put Sudan at the center of his foreign policy in Africa, helping broker a 2005 peace agreement that ended a conflict that had claimed more than 2 million lives. President Obama has rallied international pressure to rescue that accord as it risked unraveling.

Rebecca Hamilton, Special to The Washington Post, discusses the violence targeted against the Nuba people of South Kordofan. ...

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Ethiopia this week, arriving at a critical juncture for U.S. interests across the Horn of Africa. In Somalia, security forces recently killed a top Al-Qaeda leader in the region. In Sudan, military tensions have regional observers worried about a return to civil war in that country's Southern region. Rebecca Hamilton, special correspondent on Sudan for The Washington Post, helps to explain the delicate balancing act in the Horn of Africa.

Sudan has rejected a call by the U.N. Security Council to withdraw its forces from the contested town of Abyei, as internal pressure mounts on South Sudan to respond to the invasion last month.

Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti, in a statement released over the weekend, said that Abyei is "Sudanese territory," referring to the border region as well as the town by the same name it seized May 21.

I have more posts to file that I wrote when I was up near Abyei and didn’t have the net connection to send. But first I want to lay out what (admittedly unsatisfying) information I have about the proximate cause of the Sudanese government’s seizure of Abyei.

Khartoum says its attack was in response to an ambush on a convoy of Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) who were withdrawing from Abyei under UN escort. Juba acknowledges there was an incident but denies that there was any intentional ambush.

I spoke this afternoon with Rebecca Hamilton of the Pulitzer Center, reporting from Juba in South Sudan. Rebecca, what is the assessment there of how this talk of an agreement that would stop the dispute in the central region might affect the kind of ...

As the rainy season begins in this tiny rural village in southern Sudan, thousands of frightened women and children are seeking cover under makeshift shelters of bedsheets and rugs, strung up between tree branches lodged in the mud.

As the sun set at the South Sudan Army base in Juba last night, the giant statue of Dr. John Garang was guarded by two young soldiers.

“This was the leader who brought peace to Sudan” one of the soldiers said, referring to Garang’s role as the leader of the southern rebel group, the SPLA, that signed a 2005 peace agreement to end 22 years of civil war with the Sudanese government.