Vol 45 No 13 | SUDANAROUND AFRICA Genocide watch 25th June 2004 As United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is taking the heat for UN inaction on the Darfur genocide, Washington is under mounting pressure to act. Worried about 'another...
Vol 45 No 12 | SUDAN Peace without honour 11th June 2004 The Khartoum government's genocide in Darfur overshadows the North-South peace deal The Naivasha peace deal of 26 May was signed under the dark shadow of the National Islamic Front regime's genocide in Darfur (AC Vol 45 Nos 9, 10...
Vol 45 No 12 | SUDAN A good deal missing 11th June 2004 Three documents were signed on 26 May in Kenya by the National Islamic Front regime and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army. The protocols were: On Power Sharing, On...
Vol 45 No 12 | SUDAN The road from Nyala to El Geneina 11th June 2004 Between Kass and El Geneina, there was not one village that had not been burnt. Between Zalingei and Geneina, Africa Confidential counted 18 villages destroyed, some of them...
Vol 45 No 11 | SUDAN A long, long wait 28th May 2004 The day-long delay in signing the latest protocol between the National Islamic Front governmentment and the Sudan People's Liberation Army in Kenya on 26 May points to disagreements...
Vol 45 No 10 | SUDAN Desperate Darfur 14th May 2004 The government continues to block humanitarian aid and a third of a million lives are at risk It was an operation typical of the one-two punch used in Darfur by the government's regular forces, hand in glove with the irregular forces known as Janjaweed. The...
Vol 45 No 10 | SUDAN A rebel's story 14th May 2004 The commander of the Sudan Liberation Army's Messalit forces, Khamis Abdullah Abaker, was one of the first villagers to organise self-defence units. He described how in 1998-2003, he...
Vol 45 No 10 | SUDAN Tragic contradictions 14th May 2004 UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who on the anniversary of the start of Rwanda's genocide raised the possibility of military intervention in Darfur, has been trying to galvanise...
Vol 45 No 9 | SUDAN Mass murder 30th April 2004 Ten years after Rwanda's genocide, the NIF regime kills and displaces tens of thousands of civilians in Darfur – with impunity Civilians in Darfur continue to die as a result of the National Islamic Front regime's ethnic cleansing and in the absence of serious diplomatic pressure. United Nations Secretary...
Vol 45 No 9 | SUDAN Algerian bullets 30th April 2004 Late last month, an Ilyushin-76 aircraft with clear Algerian air force markings unloaded ten tonnes of ammunition at Abéché airport, 170 kilometres from Chad's border with Sudan, say...