Vol 53 No 11 | SUDAN Rockets and meetings 25th May 2012 Khartoum blames Israel for bombing Port Sudan again while the opposition gets on with some planning The airstrike that killed the driver of a four-by-four vehicle in a Port Sudan suburb just before 8 a.m. on 22 May added to the pressure on the...
Vol 53 No 9 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN All or nothing 27th April 2012 Khartoum is fighting on three fronts: a determined Southern army, confident armed oppositionists and a hostile population When President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir told the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), ‘Either we end up in Juba and take everything or you end up in...
Vol 53 No 8 | SUDANUNITED NATIONS UN clash over Beijing bullets claim 13th April 2012 UN experts’ reports differ over Darfur arms violations A seismic diplomatic row is rumbling at United Nations headquarters in New York over the circulation of a damning report by former UN experts pointing to the supply...
Vol 53 No 8 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN War drums sound as the South takes Heglig 13th April 2012 Khartoum mobilises against South Sudan and breaks off all negotiations The seizure of the oil town of Heglig by South Sudan’s armed forces on 10 April ratchets up Juba’s confrontation with Khartoum’s National Congress Party (NCP) regime, which...
Vol 53 No 6 | SUDAN Opposition turns up the heat 16th March 2012 Civilian and military opponents of the Khartoum regime win more battles in their campaign Over a hundred people tried to storm a police station in Khartoum’s Ed Deim area on 6 March after Awadia Agabna died in clashes with police. Protests then...
Vol 53 No 6 | SUDAN Khartoum rewrites history 16th March 2012 Despite bombing civilians, the National Congress Party (NCP) has some success abroad in the propaganda war, persuading governments to accept its version of events: that the Sudan People’s...
Vol 53 No 3 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN The South goes for sovereignty 3rd February 2012 Juba turns off the oil and turns up the pressure in its fraught negotiations with Khartoum over oil, cash, security and citizenship Few outside the Juba government had expected it to start shutting down oil production on 22 January. Warnings from the Government of South Sudan had been widely seen...
Vol 53 No 3 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN Who pays the pipeline 3rd February 2012 Whatever the outcome of the oil talks between the Khartoum and Juba governments, the current crisis has focused thinking on southward leading pipelines. Industry and diplomatic opinion is...
Vol 53 No 2 | SUDAN Drop the pilot 20th January 2012 A letter to the National Congress Party has emerged this week from some 1,000 Islamist activists, including Salafists, secretly egged on by Hassan el Turabi, we hear. It...
Vol 53 No 1 | SUDAN The future is military 6th January 2012 The main question this year is how far Khartoum will pursue militarism to compensate for its loss of the South Billboards in Khartoum celebrate the regime’s military prowess and its increasingly bellicose tactics against the newly independent South. Massive pictures of the President, Field Marshal Omer Hassan Ahmed...