A renowned analyst of East Africa, the Horn, Sudan and the Great Lakes, Gerard Prunier is a research professor at the University of Paris and author of The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide (Hurst, 1992) and of From Genocide to Continental War: The Congolese Conflict and the Crisis of Contemporary Africa (Hurst, 2005, see p. 26).

'A passionate and highly readable account of the current tragedy that combines intimate knowledge of the region's history, politics, and sociology with a telling cynicism about the polite but ineffectual diplomatic efforts to end it. It is the best account available of the Darfur crisis.'

A renowned analyst of East Africa, the Horn, Sudan and the Great Lakes, Gerard Prunier is a research professor at the University of Paris and author of The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide (Hurst, 1992) and of From Genocide to Continental War: The Congolese Conflict and the Crisis of Contemporary Africa (Hurst, 2005, see p. 26).

'A passionate and highly readable account of the current tragedy that combines intimate knowledge of the region's history, politics, and sociology with a telling cynicism about the polite but ineffectual diplomatic efforts to end it. It is the best account available of the Darfur crisis.'

A renowned analyst of East Africa, the Horn, Sudan and the Great Lakes, Gerard Prunier is a research professor at the University of Paris and author of The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide (Hurst, 1992) and of From Genocide to Continental War: The Congolese Conflict and the Crisis of Contemporary Africa (Hurst, 2005, see p. 26).

'A passionate and highly readable account of the current tragedy that combines intimate knowledge of the region's history, politics, and sociology with a telling cynicism about the polite but ineffectual diplomatic efforts to end it. It is the best account available of the Darfur crisis.'