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...
Vol 45 No 7 | SUDAN Under arrest, again 2nd April 2004 Darfur burns as the US deadline for a peace deal for the South draws near The National Islamic Front claims to have foiled a coup attempt but its arrest of senior military officers and NIF founder Hassan Abdullah el Turabi owes more to...
Vol 45 No 2 | SUDAN No mistake 23rd January 2004 Khartoum's surprise announcement of a month's break in the peace talks worries Washington. It had expected a peace deal for President George Bush to celebrate in his State...
Vol 44 No 25 | CHADSUDAN The language of weapons 19th December 2003 A sick President and armed uprisings threaten attempts to share out the oil more fairly Armed opposition is on the rise again, as anti-government militias train in Sudan and politicians grow restless in N'djamena. The unrest puts at risk not only the ailing...
Vol 44 No 25 | CHADSUDAN Dead men tell tales 19th December 2003 Ibn Omer Youssef Idriss, a Sudanese businessman, was shot dead at point blank range outside Chad's Foreign Ministry on 25 September. Six weeks later, on 6 November, four...