Vol 46 No 11 | SUDANUNITED NATIONS Watch this space 27th May 2005 We hear Jan Pronk, the United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative for Sudan since June, seeks another job. The Netherlands' former International Development Minister (65) hoped for a...
Vol 46 No 10 | SUDAN Seizing the day in the South 13th May 2005 To succeed, the new government must be more than a triumphant army The Government of South Sudan (GOSS) is waiting to be born. Its formidable task is to build a country from scratch and according to January's Comprehensive Peace Agreement...
Vol 46 No 10 | SUDAN Running the South 13th May 2005 As the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement negotiates for a new Government of South Sudan and a power-sharing role in a new national government, its own leadership is opaque...
Vol 46 No 10 | SUDAN From the ground up 13th May 2005 Along the old front line in Western Equatoria, the bush and the birds had taken over. Now people are beginning to return, some selling bananas by the roadside....
Vol 46 No 8 | SUDAN Crime and no punishment 15th April 2005 Western governments send Khartoum officials for trial one week and promise them aid the next The bizarre spectacle of Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha glad-handing Western politicians at the International Donors' Conference in Oslo on 11-12 April highlighted the confusion among European and...
Vol 46 No 4 | SUDAN East of the border 18th February 2005 SLA fighters try to overthrow their leader while the NMRD demonstrates its affinity with Chad The Sudan Liberation Army appears to have a new leader. SLA members say that 'democratic consultations' are under way but the money is on the Chief of Staff,...
Vol 46 No 4 | SUDAN Who's who on Darfur? 18th February 2005 The United Nations International Commission of Inquiry's report into the atrocities in Darfur names 51 individuals it recommends for prosecution at the International Criminal Court. The file has...
Vol 46 No 4 | SUDAN Every single day 18th February 2005 As the killings continue, at last the UN considers sanctions, peacekeepers and prosecutions January's United Nations International Commission of Inquiry report on Darfur may not have concluded genocide was taking place but still may have shamed world decision-makers into action. Describing...
Vol 46 No 3 | SUDANBRITAIN Who's spooking who? 4th February 2005 Reports that British intelligence is training Sudan government spies raise awkward questions about policy following the 1 February release of a 244-page United Nations report detailing the involvement...
Vol 46 No 2 | SUDAN Joy in the South, silence in the North 21st January 2005 The peace deal shores up the regime but raises doubts about the eventual plan for Southern independence At long last, Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) has been signed, in Kenya's National Stadium on 9 January. Yet the participants have very different aims: the regime wants...