Vol 56 No 13 | SOUTH AFRICASUDAN Fugitive flees as courts sidelined 18th June 2015 The main casualty of the Sudanese President's trip to the African Union summit was the rule of law President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir has again escaped the clutches of the International Criminal Court (ICC) but his disruptive appearance at the African Union summit and his...
Vol 56 No 11 | KENYASUDANUNITED STATES Ethics question for Obama 29th May 2015 Some 17 years after the bombing of US Embassies in East Africa, relatives of those killed and local staff injured still await compensation On his first trip to Kenya as United States President in July, Barack Obama will walk into a bitter controversy over successive United States governments' failure to compensate...
Vol 56 No 9 | SUDAN Enhancing elections 1st May 2015 The opposition call to stay away worked. The government cannot pretend it won a credible mandate Long queues of enthusiastic citizens stood patiently in the scorching sun waiting to vote in Sudan's first democratic elections for 18 years. The year was 1986. Fast-forward to...
Vol 56 No 9 | SUDAN The President’s new clothes 1st May 2015 With an official turnout of less than half of the registered voters in the 13-16 April elections, President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir consoled himself with a dictator-level...
Vol 56 No 8 | SUDAN A no vote election 17th April 2015 The pitiful turnout in the 13-16 April elections defeats the government's aim in organising them. The only queues which journalists and activists found to photograph were of police...
Vol 56 No 7 | SUDAN Fresh doubts over polls 3rd April 2015 The government shuns its own National Dialogue policy, raising more questions about this month’s elections The ruling National Congress Party (NCP)'s refusal to attend a preparatory meeting with the opposition Sudan Call Forces in Addis Ababa on 29-30 March suggests it has dumped...
Vol 56 No 7 | SUDAN Positive deterrence 3rd April 2015 Labelled 'Top Secret', a National Congress Party document, '2015 Elections: An organisational perspective', leaked out late last year. The 28-page NCP strategy was dated January 2014 but appeared...
Vol 56 No 7 | SUDAN One-way ticket 31st March 2015 The government tries to distance itself from the radicalisation of seven British-Sudanese students at a private medical school in Khartoum The Islamist organisation in Khartoum which helped to radicalise seven British-Sudanese medical students who went to join the so-called Islamic State (IS) in Syria was disbanded days after...
Vol 56 No 5 | SUDAN To vote, talk or fight 6th March 2015 As the regime starts election campaigning, opposition parties boycott en masse and plan for political change As President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir launched his re-election campaign at Merrikh football stadium in Omdurman on 24 February, police were breaking up protests across the Nile...
Vol 56 No 4 | SUDAN After prayers, no miracles 19th February 2015 Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Kurti must have prayed that his presence at the United States 'National Prayer Breakfast' on 5 February and talks with US officials would yield...