Vol 47 No 15 | SUDAN Khartoum's veto 21st July 2006 A United Nations-backed conference in Brussels on 18-19 July brought in delegations from over 70 countries and raised about US$200 million for peacekeeping and humanitarian work in Darfur...
Vol 47 No 11 | SUDANUGANDA Taping the LRA 26th May 2006 South Sudan tries to bring Uganda's rebels to peace but not to justice At the celebrations to mark the founding of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army on 16 May, Southern Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit told supporters that his fledgling government...
Vol 47 No 11 | SUDAN Southern discomfort 26th May 2006 The new Government of Southern Sudan has to reconcile the rivalries of its many peoples, exacerbated for decades by Khartoum regimes. The mandatory disarmament is proving tricky –...
Vol 47 No 11 | SUDANAFRICAN UNIONBRITAIN Konaré's stopover 26th May 2006 NATO had offered to provide 'substantial support' to the African Union in Darfur under new arrangements to strengthen its peacekeeping operation there, said a communiqué following discussions by...
Vol 47 No 10 | SUDAN It's the government, stupid 12th May 2006 If it doesn't trigger the dispatch of a protection force, the Darfur accord will have failed In the Abuja deal, the victims barely figure. The document is long and detailed but offers little substantial or enforceable political or economic change. The Khartoum regime is...
Vol 47 No 10 | SUDAN The heart of the matter 12th May 2006 More is emerging about the state of health of Intelligence Director General Salah Abdullah 'Gosh', who visited Britain in March for medical reasons and talks with the government....
Vol 47 No 9 | CHADSUDAN Foreign fingers 28th April 2006 Since 2003, Paris has both backed President Idriss Déby and tried to prevent its allies discussing Chad. This has weakened Chad's unarmed opposition, which has anyway been manipulated...
Vol 47 No 9 | SUDAN Oddest bedfellows 28th April 2006 We hear that at high-level diplomatic meetings in London, Paris and Washington in December 2005, intelligence officers from Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, the United States' Central Intelligence Agency...
Vol 47 No 7 | SUDAN Pressing for a deal 31st March 2006 After three years of mass murder in Darfur, the West is in a hurry for a peace accord to enable UN troops to deploy Mediators at talks on Darfur are scrambling for a rapid peace deal that would allow United Nations' troops to deploy in the region, where murders and rapes perpetrated...
Vol 47 No 7 | CHADSUDAN On the frontline 31st March 2006 Darfur's troubles are fuelled by violence flowing both ways across the Chadian border, some of it orchestrated by the Sudanese regime. Meanwhile, President Idriss Déby Itno clings to...