Sudan

Transparency the key to Sudan’s referendum

By Demdigest on May 20, 2010

The main lesson of Sudan’s recent elections is that confidence-building measures are needed before southerners will trust Khartoum’s handling of the forthcoming referendum, writes Dave Peterson, senior director of the Africa program at the National Endowment for Democracy, the Washington-based democracy assistance group.
“Negotiations and decision-making must be transparent, and education about the referendum process must [read full story]

Posted in Africa, Democracy assistance, Elections, Sudan | Tagged Democracy assistance, Making Sense of Sudan, National Endowment for Democracy | Leave a response

Chavez’s ideological necrophilia at root of ‘Cubazuelan’ crisis

By Michael Allen on May 18, 2010

Venezuela’s President Hugo has come to embody a new form of authoritarian rule which has “proved surprisingly successful across the world.” But what one observer calls his ideological necrophilia has precipitated a crisis of such magnitude that even his Cuban allies are concerned at his regime’s staggering ineptitude.
The new authoritarian model “combines a democratic mandate, [read full story]

Posted in authoritarianism, autocrats, corruption, Cuba, democracy, Featured, Iran, Latin America and the Carribean, National Endowment for Democracy, populism, promoting democracy, Russia, Sudan, Venezuela, Zimbabwe | Leave a response

Sudan: poll creates more problems than it resolves?

By Michael Allen on April 30, 2010

Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the incumbent Sudanese president, has won re-election, claiming 68 percent of the vote in the country’s first elections for a quarter century. But opposition groups and independent observers noted widespread fraud and vote-rigging, while several parties boycotted the election.
The poll was prompted by the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement which ended the civil [read full story]

Posted in Africa, democracy, Democracy assistance, democracy support, democratization, Elections, International Republican Institute, National Democratic Institute, promoting democracy, Sudan | Tagged Grading the Benchmarks, International Foundation for Electoral Systems, International Republican Institute, National Democratic Institute, Sudan People’s Liberation Movement | Leave a response

NED’s Africa program director continues his democracy diary from Sudan’s General Election trail.

By Dave Peterson on April 14, 2010

Although the elections seem to have been thrown into disarray by the boycott of several key parties, the government seems determined to go ahead. The international and domestic observation missions seem set to proceed as well. An assessment of the potential for violence is very mixed. There will be an event on Sunday, whether it [read full story]

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Report from Sudan

By Dave Peterson on April 12, 2010

Wednesday, April 7
We attended a briefing for the Africa Union observation mission given by NED partner Al Bakir. He presented a civil society domestic observers perspective on the elections. Although the Electoral Commission had initially supported the initiative to form Tamam, a coalition of 120 civil society groups established to provide civic education and [read full story]

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Democracy Events

By Web on March 30, 2010

March 31, 2010. 10 a.m. – Current Realities and Future Possibilities in Burma/Myanmar. United States Institute of Peace; and the Asia Society. Speakers: Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark; former U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Henrietta Fore; Suzanne DiMaggio, director of policy studies at the Asia Society; Richard Solomon, president of USIP; and Priscilla Clap, [read full story]

Posted in accountability, Afghanistan, Africa, Asia, authoritarianism, autocrats, Backlash, backsliding, Burma, China, Closed societies, color revolutions, communist regimes, corruption, democracy and development, Democracy assistance, democracy promotion, democracy support, democratic reform, democratization, dictatorships, dissidents, engagement, Eurasia, Failed states, foreign policy, Fragile States, Freedom House, freedom of expression, Human rights, Islam and democracy, Islam/politics, Latin America and the Carribean, Middle East and North Africa, NGOs/Civil society, promoting democracy, Religion and Democracy, religious freedom, Russia, Sudan, Ukraine | Tagged Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, Assessing the Reset: The First Year of the Obama Administration’s Russia Policy, Challenges in Building Russian Democracy, Countries at the Crossroads, Current Realities and Future Possibilities in Burma/Myanmar, Freedom House, Green movement, Iran: Prospects for Regime Change, Islam and Religious Freedom, Millennium Development Goals Miss the Point in Africa, Mohsen Sazegara, New Foundation for Afghanistan, Open Society Institute, Peace vs. Human Rights? Implications for a Peace Settlement with the Taliban?, Political Turmoil and Receding Reform: Democratic Governance in Uncertain Times., Previewing Sudan's Upcoming Elections, Religion and Politics in Africa, The Foreign Policy Initiative, The Uighurs: China’s Forgotten Muslims, U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Relations with the Muslim World: One Year After Cairo, Ukraine Changes Course: Where the New President Lead the Nation?, United Nations Development Programme, Wesley Clark, Women's Activities and Social Services Association | Leave a response

Sudan

Transparency the key to Sudan’s referendum

Chavez’s ideological necrophilia at root of ‘Cubazuelan’ crisis

Sudan: poll creates more problems than it resolves?

NED’s Africa program director continues his democracy diary from Sudan’s General Election trail.

Report from Sudan

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