Sudan

Negotiations between Khartoum and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army in 2003-05 diverted attention from Khartoum’s mass murder and ethnic cleansing in Darfur; now the Islamist regime is exploiting...

The United Nations has missed its first deadline for deploying peacekeepers in Darfur - not because of African Union recalcitrance but because non-African governments failed to offer specialised...

African Union Commission Chairman Alpha Oumar Konaré's statement in Khartoum on 12 August that the planned 26,000-strong peacekeeping force for Darfur would be entirely African and his criticisms...

The United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) is half of the process; the other half involves negotiations between rebels and regime. This requires a common platform for...

The Sudan Liberation Movement faction of Abdel Wahed Mohamed Ahmed el Nur boycotted this month's Arusha talks. This matters because it is the second largest military group and...

Under growing international pressure, Khartoum's National Congress (aka National Islamic Front) is uncovering 'internal plots'. On 14 July, it arrested Umma Party renegade and former minister Mubarek Abdullahi...

Southern President Salva Kiir Mayardit wants to get a stronger grip on his government as dissatisfaction grows and tensions mount with the Khartoum government. Salva has effectively...

Now that Britain's White Nile Limited has been forced out of Sudan, the biggest question for its founders, former England cricketer Phillipe Edmonds and his partner Andrew Groves,...

A mixture of scepticism and hope greets Khartoum's claims that it has unconditionally accepted that around 20,000 peacekeepers will be deployed in Darfur by 2008. Interested governments and...

Claims that Sudan gives the United States intelligence on Al Qaida in Somalia and Iraq - and Khartoum's rapid denial - have revived important questions. Does this 'intelligence...