Vol 43 No 10 | SUDAN The fire does not cease 17th May 2002 The opposition complains that a US-brokered ceasefire helps the Khartoum government Over halfway through the six-month 'humanitarian ceasefire' brokered by the United States for the Nuba Mountains, the National Islamic Front (aka National Congress) government has gained more than...
Vol 43 No 9 | SUDANUGANDA The Carlos card 3rd May 2002 The odd agreement between Khartoum and Kampala allowing Ugandan troops into Sudan to attack the Lord's Resistance Army was renewed last week till mid-May. For both sides this...
Vol 43 No 8 | SUDAN Asian interests 19th April 2002 India's state-owned ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL) and Indian Oil Corporation are in talks to buy Talisman Energy's Sudan operations. Canada's Talisman is under pressure because of the National...
Vol 43 No 6 | ETHIOPIASUDAN Pals with Pal 22nd March 2002 Is southern Sudan, already burdened with enough problems of its own, becoming enmeshed in another proxy war on its border with Ethiopia? Such fears follow the arrival in...
Vol 43 No 5 | SUDAN Oilfield, battlefield 8th March 2002 The opposition regroups and threatens Khartoum's control of the oilfields The National Islamic Front (or National Congress) government has mounted a massive air and ground offensive in oil-rich Western Upper Nile to counter the regrouping of opposition groups....
Vol 43 No 5 | SUDAN 'Making politics and war together' 8th March 2002 The biggest successes of John Garang's four-day visit to Britain came not at his brief encounters with the government which had invited him for the first time but...
Vol 43 No 4 | SUDAN Unconstructive engagement 22nd February 2002 Western governments still don't get the measure of Sudan's resourceful rulers As one Special Envoy gives up trying to bring peace to Sudan, another pops up with the same mission. United States Senator John Danforth is expected to abandon...
Vol 43 No 4 | SUDAN Who's after Ali? 22nd February 2002 Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, First Vice-President, National Islamic Front (National Congress) leader and the country's most powerful man, is ill. A reported heart attack took him to Jordan...
Vol 43 No 2 | SUDAN In a word 25th January 2002 The ceasefire for the Nuba Mountains which the National Islamic Front government signed with the Sudan People's Liberation Army in Bürgenstock, Switzerland, on 19 January, went (with NIF...
Vol 42 No 24 | SUDAN Offal and waffle 7th December 2001 Many unusual cargoes have been delivered to Sudan in recent years, as former resident Usama bin Laden knows. Yet one of the strangest (though not necessarily most dangerous)...