Sudan

Lieutenant General Omer Hassan el Beshir has for the first time named a 'presidential assistant', plus four presidential advisors, 25 ministers, 19 state (junior) ministers and 25 governors...

The United Nations may soon start flying aid to Nuba civilians in areas held by the Sudan People's Liberation Army. A UN-SPLA meeting on 31 January in Nairobi...

In their first joint mission, Egypt's and Libya's foreign ministers, Amr Moussa and Omer el Muntasser, were in Sudan on 4 January to boost President Omer el Beshir...

The National Islamic Front's bid to smash the opposition while convincing outsiders it seeks reconciliation has provoked the normally taciturn Saudi Arabian government into denying reports that it...

The opposition's swift rejection of the 25 November agreement between the National Islamic Front and Umma Party has surprised both signatories. National Democratic Alliance leaders were 'unanimous' in...

The opposition fighters who blew a hole in the government's new oil pipeline on 19 September also blew apart its campaign to convince the world that it has...

The 19 September attack on the brand new, 1,600-kilometre export pipeline proves two points: firstly, the falsehood of the claim by the National Islamic Front government that the...

Ten years after the National Islamic Front government agreed that the United Nations could carry relief to all 'war-affected populations', the UN's Operation Lifeline Sudan has taken its...

A growing flirtation with the Umma Party is one sign of the National Islamic Front's continuing charm offensive. At our press-time, NIF leader Hassan el Turabi and Umma...

Last week in Khartoum, where mixed student outings have been common for decades, 25 students who went on a picnic were publicly flogged for 'immoral' behaviour. The girls...