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CIC Victoria: Sudan – A genocide revisited

December 9, 2025 @ 5:00 pm PST

When: Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Where: The Sticky Wicket Pub, Wicket Hall, the Strathcona Hotel, 919 Douglas Street
For: This is a CIC member only event
Time: 5 – 7:00 pm (doors open at 5 pm)
Our Speaker: Nick Coghlan

Our focus:

Nick Coghlan will bring us up to date on the thirty-month long war in Sudan, where a new wave of ethnically motivated killings has marked the return of a genocide that never really went away. Nick will look at the principal obstacles to peace and also at how Canada’s failure to live up to its arms export control obligations is contributing materially to war crimes.

Our speaker:

Nicholas Coghlan served as Canada’s first resident diplomat in Khartoum, Sudan from 2000–2003. His experiences over that period are recounted in Far in the Waste Sudan (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005). He was also the first resident Canadian ambassador in Juba, the capital of the newly independent South Sudan. Nick, and his wife, Jenny, were awarded the Meritorious Service Cross for their role in the evacuation of Canadian citizens from Juba when civil war broke out in late 2013. His most recent book is Collapse of a Country: A Diplomat’s Memoir of South Sudan (McGill-Queen’s, 2017). Today, he is a highly sought after commentator on the war in Sudan and the author of numerous articles including: Sudan’s Civil War: no end in sight – Open Canada

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To attend this event please email Roger Love at:

cicvicpip@gmail.com

The event is open to CIC members only. The cost to attend is $22.50, which will cover a first drink and a round of appetizers.

Confirmation of your registration along with payment instructions will be provided. If you are not able to attend after registering, your registration fee will be reimbursed if your place can be filled from a waiting list. If not, refunds cannot be given.

Details

  • Date: December 9, 2025
  • Time:
    5:00 pm PST

Organizer

  • CIC Victoria