Meeting on Darfur
Here’s an interesting article from Business Day Johannesburg (via allAfrica.com) on the Paris meeting on Darfur (which ended Monday) from a rather skeptical perspective. Considering the limited progress made at the conference, perhaps skepticism was in order. But the article also brings to mind larger questions of the various takes on Darfur from and between the big “international powers” and others, especially African countries. Darfur could certainly serve as a case study for the different ways in which the “West”, China, and African countries act (or don’t act) with respect to such tragedies and how they all play the various media games with lots of talk but often far too little action.
