Patrick Duplat and Renata Rendón

Since Sept. 11, the United States has given large sums of money to Pakistan to gain allegiance and support in the global war on terror. In return, the United States hopes for cooperation on issues ranging from nuclear disarmament to cracking down on jihadist groups. As a result, President Obama is confronting questions over how to balance security concerns with humanitarian and human rights principles, the very choice he denounced as false in his campaign.

Lazaro Sumbeiwyo and John Danforth

The world’s attention was rightly seized by the terrible conflict in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, in which hundreds of thousands of civilian lives were lost. It is often forgotten, however, that the tragedy of Darfur came after Sudan’s north-south conflict, Africa’s longest running civil war, in which more than 2m people were killed. On Friday it is five years since the historic Comprehensive Peace Agreement was signed between north and south Sudan, yet there is a real threat of all-out war returning to Sudan and still no permanent resolution to the Darfur conflict.