Vol 40 No 13 | SUDAN The National Islamic Front on parade 25th June 1999 Hassan el Turabi heads a team of sometimes quarrelling but always committed people. The key NIF people in government have been there since the 1989 coup. A number...
Vol 40 No 10 | ERITREAETHIOPIASUDANHORN OF AFRICA Regional collisions 14th May 1999 The Eritrea-Ethiopia war is helping the Islamist regime in Khartoum and further destabilising Djibouti and Somalia The main beneficiary of the Eritrean-Ethiopian war (AC Vol 40 No 4, Pride and prejudice & My enemy's enemy) is Sudan’s National Islamic Front government. A year ago,...
Vol 40 No 10 | SUDAN Lightning strike 14th May 1999 A series of opposition victories against the National Islamic Front government has prompted Khartoum to delay 'negotiations' in Nairobi under the auspices of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development....
Vol 40 No 7 | SUDAN War in the mountains 2nd April 1999 The National Islamic Front fears the Nuba revolt will derail its partition plan The ruling National Islamic Front has started a major new offensive against the Sudan People's Liberation Army in the Nuba mountains. Apparently alarmed at the success of opposition...
Vol 40 No 2 | SUDANIRAQ Political chemistry 22nd January 1999 A key reason why the United States bombed El Shifa factory on 20 August (AC Vol 39 No 17) was because of its links to Iraq,...
Vol 40 No 1 | SUDANBRITAIN The long arm 8th January 1999 The Pinochet effect persists in Britain with the trial, now expected this March, of a Sudanese doctor who is charged with committing torture and omitting to prevent it...
Vol 39 No 23 | SUDAN Business front 20th November 1998 Rebel gains on the eastern front, bordering Ethiopia, now threaten business interests crucial to the National Islamic Front regime. The local Sudan People’s Liberation Army commander, Malik Agar,...
Vol 39 No 20 | SUDAN Political chemistry 9th October 1998 A leading advocate of sending an ‘independent team’ to investigate the bombed El Shifa pharmaceutical factory works out of Sudan’s London mission. Since the United States’ attack on...
Vol 39 No 17 | SUDANUNITED STATES Washington's military option 28th August 1998 The USA has fired a missile through accommodationist policies with Khartoum - and escalated the conflict with Islamists Ten years ago, no one could have imagined that a foreign power would bomb Khartoum and Sudanese would complain that the attack was not hard enough. After nine...
Vol 39 No 17 | SUDAN Hit and hate 28th August 1998 Televisionisation and the wish to personify have turned Usama bin Laden into a kind of Robin Hood. Many recall the United States manhunt for General Mohamed Farah ‘Aydeed’....