Vol 50 No 17 | SUDANUNITED STATES An American road to Khartoum 28th August 2009 The road to Sudan is littered with the United States' special envoys and the most criticised, Scott Gration, is determined not to join the list of those who...
Vol 50 No 15 | LIBERIARWANDASIERRA LEONESUDAN International justice and its pitfalls 24th July 2009 The current array of international tribunals has its roots in the 1990s. With the Cold War over, a spate of atrocious wars broke out in areas that no...
Vol 50 No 15 | SUDAN Abyei arbitrage 24th July 2009 The Permanent Court of Arbitration's 22 July ruling, which redrew the boundaries of the disputed Abyei area, affirmed that all the area's major oil fields and the Nile...
Vol 50 No 13 | SUDAN Coup anniversary – 20 years of Islamist rule 26th June 2009 As the NCP/NIF celebrates 20 years in power, the 'democratic transformation' stipulated by the CPA looks optimistic A momentous year awaits Sudan. Amid fighting in the South and Darfur, elections are due in February and the Southern referendum on independence is scheduled for 2011. The...
Vol 50 No 13 | SUDAN 'Selling the South down the river' 26th June 2009 This week's meeting in Washington of the two signatories to the 2005 CPA is unprecedented. Both the National Congress Party (aka National Islamic Front) and the Sudan People's...
Vol 50 No 13 | SUDAN The coup-making government lives on 26th June 2009 Hassan Abdullah el Turabi may watch mainly from the wings but the party he nurtured lives on, albeit renamed. The core group of his National Islamic Front is...
Vol 50 No 11 | SUDAN Who's counting? 29th May 2009 When Southern Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit said this month that he was 'unhappy and unsatisfied' with the census results, he was pointing to the next major clash...
Vol 50 No 10 | SUDAN Open sesame 15th May 2009 In diplomatic bartering this week, Khartoum offered limited access in Darfur to some affiliates of the 13 Western aid agencies it expelled on 4 March. Yet, at the...
Vol 50 No 9 | CHADSUDAN Who shoots first? 1st May 2009 The regimes in N’djamena and Khartoum are preparing for another proxy war, this time with more guns and better technology On the Chad-Sudan border, everyone is asking who will fire first. As the mandate of the European Union Force (EUFOR) in eastern Chad ran out last month, Sudan's...
Vol 50 No 9 | SUDAN Warnings 1st May 2009 International concern is rising over the North-South peace deal and the national elections due under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. This week, the head of the CPA's Assessment and...