Sudan Twenty Seven Years after Operation Moses

the Country Remains in Turmoil

By Ambassador Princeton N. Lyman

Jews will recall the evacuation of 9,000 Jewish Ethiopian refugees from Sudan in 1984. That undertaking contributed, along with internal war, to the later overthrow of the Nimeiri regime. Twenty more years of civil war followed until a peace accord in 2005 allowed the non-Muslim south to secede. But memories of war, bitterness over past atrocities, and unresolved issues plague what is a fragile and fractured peace. Today the international community confronts an even greater humanitarian disaster in Sudan if the government and the world cannot come together to prevent it.

Ambassador Princeton N. Lyman is the United States Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan for which he was called back to service after retirement. He previously served in the government as Ambassador to Nigeria, Director of Refugee Affairs, Ambassador to South Africa, and Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs. From 2003 to 2009 he directed the Africa program at the Council on Foreign Relations publishing two major studies of US policy in Africa and articles on HIV/AIDS, peacekeeping, and terrorism. He has been a TI member since the 1970s. 

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