The Diplomatic Missteps That Fed Sudan's Slide to Civil War

An ex-CIA and State Department officials explains what went wrong

I started covering US-Sudan policy as a young journalist in DC nearly 20 years ago. At the time, the government of Sudan was fighting an insurgency in Darfur in the far-western region of the country. The government’s tactics were particularly brutal and deliberately targeted the civilian population in a manner highly consistent with the crime of genocid…