Sudan

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Who brought Sudan's security boss, Salah Abdullah 'Gosh', to London last week? He is number two on the United Nations Panel of Experts' list of 'individuals identified' for...

How did the United Nations Panel of Experts on Sudan pick its candidates for sanctions over Darfur war crimes? The confidential annex of 22 names, leaked last week,...

Just as Western governments begin to note the regime's lack of financial transparency, the ruling National Islamic Front-National Congress has another bonanza. On 6 February, Kuwait-based Mobile Telecommunications...

As the plight of civilians in Darfur worsens, United Nations' troops may take over from those of the African Union later this year. Yet will they have the...