Vol 51 No 15 | EGYPTSUDAN Secret talks 23rd July 2010 Egypt has quietly accepted that Southern Sudanese may choose independence in January's referendum in return for assurances that the Juba government will not abandon the 1959 Nile Waters...
Vol 51 No 13 | SUDAN Crisis cabinets 25th June 2010 The new teams in Khartoum and Juba will face a tense six months before the referendum – and the threat of a war that some want and many expect The message from the new government in Khartoum is that the National Congress Party is in full control and intends to stay there. The message from the new...
Vol 51 No 13 | SUDAN The international agenda 25th June 2010 The most dramatic military-security appointment is of Ali Ahmed Kurti as full Foreign Affairs Minister (he was previously State Minister). He is best known for establishing the Popular...
Vol 51 No 12 | SUDAN Flash point Southern Kordofan 11th June 2010 Amid complaints of Khartoum’s meddling and the SPLM’s betrayal, how South Kordofan reacts will be critical to the referenda in January The rerun of the population census in South Kordofan next week will highlight another flash point in Sudan’s shaky North-South peace agreement ahead of the referenda on self-determination...
Vol 51 No 12 | SUDAN Militias of the new age 11th June 2010 In the seven short months before January’s independence referendum, militias in the South’s oil-producing areas – Upper Nile, Jonglei and Unity states – will be one of the...
Vol 51 No 12 | SUDAN Oily alliances 11th June 2010 A new oil consortium operating in Darfur brings together private Arab, Gabonese and Libyan state interests and companies close to Khartoum’s ruling National Congress Party. It also raises...
Vol 51 No 10 | SUDANWORLD BANK Books not bribes 14th May 2010 The World Bank is looking for new printers following its decision to bar publishers Macmillan from all Bank contracts for six years. This follows the admission by a...
Vol 51 No 9 | SUDAN Stolen votes yield a hollow victory for Khartoum 30th April 2010 Vote-fixing in an election lacking any credibility has galvanised opposition in the North and may undermine the ruling party A beaming President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir waved his stick triumphantly as his victory was announced in Khartoum on 26 April. Yet the ruling National Congress Party...
Vol 51 No 9 | SUDAN A good vote in Africa 30th April 2010 Free, fair and good-humoured. They were organised and monitored entirely by Sudanese and their results were widely accepted as free and fair. Those were Sudan’s landmark elections of...
Vol 51 No 9 | SUDAN The deals, the votes and the fraud 30th April 2010 There was plenty of rigging and fixing of votes across the country but sometimes the best laid plans went awry.