Werner Daum

Werner Daum (born 1943) is a German diplomat and author, specialising in the cultural history of Yemen, Sudan and the Arabian Peninsula.

After having served as minister-counselor at the German embassy in Tirana, Daum was Germany's ambassador to Sudan from 1996 to 2000.

In 2000–2001, Daum was a fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

[1] In the summer of 2001, Daum wrote an article for the Harvard International Review entitled “Universalism and the West — An Agenda for Understanding”, in which he criticised the US government for destroying the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum during the 1998 bombing campaign, codenamed Operation Infinite Reach.

Having worked in Sudan as ambassador of Germany during the time of the attack, he wrote that there was no evidence that the factory had produced precursors to chemical weapons and that Ghazi Sulayman, an internationally respected Sudanese human rights advocate, was a credible witness to this.