Vol 58 No 13 | SUDAN Split threatens food supplies 23rd June 2017 As the pre-harvest hunger gap begins and cholera spreads in Sudan and South Sudan, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North split threatens the sporadic food and medical supplies to...
Vol 58 No 1 | SUDAN Money and the military 6th January 2017 As its foreign reserves dwindle, the Khartoum regime will face mounting protest on the street and a more determined opposition Rising economic pressure and growing popular protest will test the National Congress Party (NCP) regime again this year and much will depend on the ability of opposition groups,...
Vol 57 No 25 | SUDAN Breaking point 16th December 2016 Civil Disobedience Day on 19 December has created a widespread sense of expectation in what could be the biggest show of opposition since the government shot dead over...
Vol 57 No 22 | SUDAN The securocrats get stronger 4th November 2016 Under pressure, President Omer is cutting the power of the party and the army and relying more on his security agents and enforcers The regime's power-base is shrinking after the formal end of its National Dialogue initiative on 10 October. President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir had hoped that the planned...
Vol 57 No 20 | SUDAN Did Khartoum cross the line? 7th October 2016 France joins human rights groups to demand an international probe into claims that Khartoum used chemical weapons in its Darfur war Claims in an Amnesty International report released on 29 September that the Sudanese regime may have used chemical weapons in Darfur will again test United Nations and African...
Vol 57 No 8 | SUDANUNITED STATES A last blast for sanctions 11th April 2016 During President Obama's final months in office, he should target sanctions more effectively at the Khartoum regime, argues a Washington lobby group A new report from the United States-based, Africa-focussed Enough Project proposes that President Barack Obama's government should use a similar range of finely tuned financial and technical sanctions...
Vol 57 No 7 | SUDAN Darfur votes under fire 1st April 2016 A referendum is supposed to decide the form of government for the region but few doubt Khartoum will decide the outcome For Khartoum, the Darfur referendum due on 11-13 April will officially conclude the Doha peace process and 'prove' that the war in the far west is over. In...
Vol 57 No 6 | SUDAN The power struggle after Hassan el Turabi 14th March 2016 Ideological rivals and political foes are trying to exploit the death of the architect of Sudanese Islamism When Hassan Abdullah el Turabi, the man who had presided over the Islamist movement in his country for five decades, died on 5 March, his dream of a...
Vol 57 No 1 | SUDAN The survival imperative 8th January 2016 Khartoum will rely on its security system and bailouts from the Gulf to maintain power and fend off pressure for political change The key word in Sudan this year is 'survival'. It is the prime focus both for the embattled National Congress Party regime and for an ever hungrier population....
Vol 56 No 25 | SUDAN Cognitive dissonance 4th December 2015 As political negotiations stutter in Addis Ababa, the UN and the European Union turn a blind eye to Khartoum's heinous rights abuses Chances of serious talks next week between government and opposition look slim. Although African Union mediators announced that the 'preparatory' political meeting would open in Ethiopia on 7...