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...
Vol 46 No 2 | SUDAN West of the border 21st January 2005 While accelerating its military build up in Darfur, the National Islamic Front government signed a peace deal on 7 January with the mysterious new rebel group, the National...
Vol 46 No 2 | SUDAN Capital concerns 21st January 2005 The temporary capital of Southern Sudan will be Rumbek, home to the South's first secondary school and, since its recapture by the Sudan People's Liberation Army in 1997,...
Vol 45 No 23 | SUDAN Murder by any name 19th November 2004 The NIF keeps killing; the West offers aid and debt relief The failure of the West's policy on Sudan - and in particular its failure to respond to the suffering in Darfur - was clear in the lead up...