Vol 46 No 21 | SUDAN Gunmen or soldiers? 21st October 2005 Two big threats hang over the new regional government of Southern Sudan The new administration in Southern Sudan is not receiving the promised oil money from the National Congress-dominated government in Khartoum. At the same time, the stability of the...
Vol 46 No 21 | SUDAN Fighting the battle of Jericho 21st October 2005 Khartoum is starving the South of its oil revenue. January's Comprehensive Peace Agreement allocated to the Government of South Sudan half of the revenue from oil produced in...
Vol 46 No 21 | SUDANUGANDA Khartoum's game 21st October 2005 Despite energetic denials, Khartoum continues to help Kony and the LRA In the early hours of 11 October, an Antonov flew over Western Equatoria, Southern Sudan, an unmistakable sound for civilians used to government bombing. Twice last month an...
Vol 46 No 20 | SUDAN In the driving seat 7th October 2005 Khartoum's Islamists are confident of dominating the Government of National Unity The list of appointments to the new Government of National Unity (GNU) confirms that it is not much concerned about national unity. The National Islamic Front/National Congress Party...
Vol 46 No 20 | SUDAN Bad marriage vows 7th October 2005 Under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the National Congress Party (NCP) aka National Islamic Front (NIF) gets 52 per cent of ministers in the Government of National Unity, the...
Vol 46 No 19 | SUDAN Control 23rd September 2005 The aid which keeps nearly three million displaced people in Darfur alive and which is critical to tens of thousands of returning Southerners is threatened by a new...
Vol 46 No 17 | SUDAN Military manoeuvres 26th August 2005 Garang's death means that changes he imposed on the SPLM have been reversed Only days after the death of the Southern Sudanese leader, John Garang de Mabior, some senior officials of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement and Army were quietly commenting...
Vol 46 No 17 | SUDAN Who is Salva? 26th August 2005 Salva Kiir Mayardit's 19 August appointment of Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon as Vice-President of Southern Sudan signals continuity and reconciliation. After John Garang's death on 30 July, Salva...
Vol 46 No 17 | SUDANAFRICA Death by plane 26th August 2005 Sudanese Vice-President John Garang's death in a helicopter crash on 30 July (see Feature) highlights the danger of African travel, especially in vast roadless countries such as Congo-Kinshasa...
Vol 46 No 16 | SUDAN Without Garang 5th August 2005 The sudden death of Southern leader John Garang has brought riots and new fears for the future The death of the man who led Southern Sudan in its war with the Khartoum government for 22 years has stunned the country. Three weeks previously as part...