Given his tough rhetoric on Darfur during last year's US election campaign, Barack Obama will face inevitable criticism over his new policy of engaging rather than bashing Khartoum's leadership. But even opponents of the revised US strategy unveiled in Washington agree Sudan has reached a very fragile juncture. Obama had little choice but to soften Washington's approach and try something different – or risk a geostrategic and human calamity.
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