President Bush’s actions with respect to Darfur have not always matched his words. Although he has signed the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act into law, the President has yet to implement all of its provisions. The President must enforce the law by prohibiting any and all federal contracts with worst offending companies. In addition, the Administration has called on the United Nations to impose targeted sanctions against individuals obstructing peace in Sudan but has not made good on his promise to pursue them. The President must immediately introduce a resolution to the United Nations Security Council that mandates international sanctions on all agents obstructing the deployment of UNAMID and the Darfur Peace Process.

In 2005 the Bush Administration facilitated the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), which ended Africa’s longest civil war, the conflict between the Government of Sudan and Southern rebels. Unfortunately, despite the promises of the Bush administration, US attention has drifted away and in the intervening years the peace has been seriously threatened. It is imperative that President Bush makes good on his promise to facilitate the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). He can do this by reconvening the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in order to reassess the progress of the CPA.