Shameless self promotion

Good for a chuckle - and to hear some high speed talking from me.

My musings on media in South Sudan in an interview I did last week with Radio France International.

http://www.english.rfi.fr/africa/20120324-media-south-sudan

Invisible Children

I'm really not sure about this Kony 2012 video. There is zero context and it doesn't even try to explain the current situation with the LRA. Particularly disliked the implication that the war is still ongoing in northern Uganda simply because it was too complicated (not really!) to explain the LRA are now in neighbouring countries and in tiny numbers (less than 200) and that Uganda is at peace and has been for several years. Obviously this has major implications for the film's solution to the problem - the Ugandan army (itself accused of terrible human rights abuses against civilians) should arrest Joseph Kony. How will they do that if he is in the DRC, as he seems to be at the moment, and the Congolese government won't let the Ugandans in?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-news-blog/2012/mar/07/kony-2012-video-viral-invisible-children

Arrest warrant issued for Abdel Raheem Muhammad Hussein

The warrant for the Sudanese defence minister covers crimes in Darfur which is all the ICC is allowed to investigate under its mandate from the UN Security Council.

But what about the bombings in South Kordofan targeting the Nuba people and the incursions into Abyei last year which also happened on his watch? Seems like there is nothing the ICC can do about that.

http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL5E8E19WJ20120301