Vol 44 No 24 | SUDAN Armed and angry 5th December 2003 Militias: mediators ignore them, Garang shuns them, the NIF loves them Sudan's peace talks are rumbling to a probable conclusion imposed by the 'Troika' of interested Western governments the United States, Britain and Norway within a few months or...
Vol 44 No 21 | SUDAN Peace in our time 24th October 2003 Two very different visions of what peace means holds up Washington's planned announcement Colin Powell was disappointed. The expected signing of a partial Sudan peace agreement during the United States Secretary of State's trip to Kenya was replaced by the two...
Vol 44 No 21 | SUDAN Another Addis agreement? 24th October 2003 Conflicting visions reign of what is really going on in the Machakos negotiations, with a large gap between Sudanese participants and many of the foreigners involved. Sudanese remember...
Vol 44 No 21 | SUDAN Back-door deals 24th October 2003 A final peace deal would be followed, eventually, by the lifting of United States' sanctions and an international aid package. Meanwhile, say banking sources, the Khartoum government is...
Vol 44 No 21 | SUDAN Monitoring minefield 24th October 2003 A Joint Military Commission (JMC) of government and rebel forces supervises the ceasefire in the Nuba Mountains (AC Vol 43 No 10). On 10 October, the government contingent...
Vol 44 No 17 | SUDAN Peace or what? 29th August 2003 After collapsing on 24 August, peace talks will resume on 10 September, with 'final agreement' due on 20 September. As the National Islamic Front tries to sabotage...
Vol 44 No 15 | SUDAN Regression 25th July 2003 The National Islamic Front government may well return to the Machakos peace talks, on 3 August, after it stormed out on 11 July. This is not simple brinkmanship,...
Vol 44 No 13 | SUDAN Oppressive and totalitarian 27th June 2003 The government threatens the Machakos peace process by holding on to its Islamist state Khartoum will never go back to being a secular capital and what forced us to execute the 30 June 1989 coup was the conspiracy against Sharia and the...
Vol 44 No 13 | SUDAN Getting away with it 27th June 2003 The National Islamic Front knows that, if it plays its cards right, the parameters set at Machakos will continue. Few now question the government's legitimacy; few now mention...
Vol 44 No 12 | SUDAN Sticking points 13th June 2003 I will not be absorbed for the second time in my life!' John Garang told parliamentarians and aid workers in Britain's Portcullis House on 3 June. The Sudan...