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Imperfect peace in Sudan

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23 Sept 2010 - On 24 September Foreign Ministers will meet in New York to discuss the dangers of renewed conflict in Africa's largest country.  They have reason to be downbeat, because Sudan is complicated.

The plea of complexity is one reason Governments fail to prevent the world's worst atrocities, according the former UN Chief in Sudan, Dr Mukesh Kapila.  He should know.  Early in 2004, at the height of mass atrocities in Darfur, he sounded the alarm - which was met with a catalogue of excuses for inaction.