Darfur is the lesser issue in Sudan now

Now a little about Sudan. As the highly publicised rollout of the new U.S. policy on Sudan made clear, Sudan has become an unlikely foreign policy priority for the Obama administration. For this, the Sudanese can thank the Darfur advocacy movement, which effectively put the nation on the map for the American public over the past 6 years. And Sudan certainly deserves every bit of attention it receives... If Africa's largest nation again implodes, it threatens to further destabilise what's already one of the most unstable regions of the world.

But the internal tension hidden within Obama's newly formulated Sudan policy is that Darfur is no longer the main attraction. Not even close.

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