Zack Brisson's blog

This week, The New York Times and others highlighted the removal of certain censorships that prohibited technology companies from exporting their products and services to Sudan, Iran, and Cuba. But on the eve of the highly controversial Sudanese election, it's unlikely that these platforms and services will be optimized for the small percentage of Sudanese civilians that could actually make use of them.  Read More »

An Enough Project strategy paper released today, "Stealing an Election in Slow Motion: Time for Real Consequences" says that Sudan’s national elections scheduled for April 2010 will be neither free nor fair absent significant international pressure on the ruling National Congress Party, or NCP, to dramatically change the electoral landscape.  Read More »

During Sudan's half-century of independence, few spots on Earth have witnessed as much death and destruction, with 2 1/2 million war-related fatalities during the past two decades alone.  Read More »

On yesterday's NPR program All Things Considered, Michele Kelemen highlights the growing anger on Capitol Hill over President Obama's handling of the situation in Sudan.  Read More »

As the Obama administration’s Sudan Policy review drags on, the government of Sudan, led by a wanted war criminal, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, clearly looks to Washington and dreams of normalizing relations.  Read More »

Today on National Public Radio's Morning Edition, reporter Gwen Thompkins highlighted the ongoing legal case of Sudanese journalist Lubna Hussein.  Hussein was arrested by Sudanese authorities for immoral behavior for wearing a pair of trousers at a night club.   Read More »