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’....
Vol 39 No 17 | SUDAN Manoeuvring in Cairo 28th August 1998 A vigorous debate ensued at the National Democratic Alliance summit in Cairo on 15-17 August over the initiative taken at the last meeting of the Inter-Governmental Authority on...
Vol 39 No 14 | SUDANHORN OF AFRICA Long war, quick fix 10th July 1998 Outsiders contemplate a north-south peace that helps the NIF and weakens its opponents Western governments have a plan for the independence of southern Sudan. The proposals have the blessing of the Sudan government but bypass Sudan's neighbours in the Inter-Governmental Authority...
Vol 39 No 14 | SUDANHORN OF AFRICA Standing on the south 10th July 1998 Since conflict erupted on 31 December 1955, the day before Sudan’s Independence, several million people have died in the war in the south.It’ shard,therefore,tofindasouthernerwhodoesn’ twant independence. It used...