{"id":10457,"date":"2009-10-20T09:37:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T16:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=10457"},"modified":"2009-10-20T09:37:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T16:37:27","slug":"will-obamas-new-strategy-on-sudan-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/10\/20\/will-obamas-new-strategy-on-sudan-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Obama&#8217;s New Strategy on Sudan Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-102009\/2009_10_20_williams.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-102009\/2009_10_20_uprising.MP3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/a\/p\/rids\/20091019\/i\/ra2252720212.jpg?x=268&#038;y=345&#038;q=85&#038;sig=ztjxgQMuVSdcLg4EsqOPuQ--\" alt=\"obama\" \/>President Barack Obama outlined a new policy of engagement yesterday with the government of Sudan. In unveiling a two-fold strategy, the Obama administration announced plans to offer incentives to Khartoum if it takes measurable steps towards peace. In addition, the President, who also stated that he would resume sanctions on Sudan this week, warned of \u201cincreased pressure\u201d on the regime if it failed to act. The United Nations has estimated that conflict in Africa\u2019s largest country has claimed the lives of more than 300,000 people. Mass killings in Darfur, particularly since 2003, were labeled by the Bush Administration as genocide. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reaffirmed the term yesterday much to the chagrin of the Sudanese government according to an adviser to President Omar al-Bashir. Although it remained unclear as to what exactly \u201cincentives\u201d and \u201cincreased pressures\u201d entailed, Obama was clear on policy objectives his administration sees as imperative to peace in the country. In outlining his strategy, the President called for the definitive end to conflict, human rights abuses, and genocide in Darfur as well as for the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the North and South of Sudan. Al-Bashir adviser Ghazi Salahadin acknowledged in a press conference that, \u201cCompared to the previous policies, there are positive point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Ian Williams, Senior Analyst with Foreign Policy in Focus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fpif.org\">www.fpif.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama outlined a new policy of engagement yesterday with the government of Sudan. In unveiling a two-fold strategy, the Obama administration announced plans to offer incentives to Khartoum if it takes measurable steps towards peace. In addition, the President, who also stated that he would resume sanctions on Sudan this week, warned of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}