Vol 52 No 19 | SUDANUNITED STATES Terrorist listing 23rd September 2011 One leaked United States cable must have pleased a Khartoum regime eager toescape the US State Sponsors of Terrorism list. A ‘confidential’ note from the Khartoum Embassy of...
Vol 52 No 18 | LIBYAMOZAMBIQUESUDANUNITED KINGDOM Lobbying on 9th September 2011 Just as Mozambique’s Resistência Nacional Moçambicana threatens to return to violence, the man who championed it at the height of its atrocities has surfaced in papers found in...
Vol 52 No 17 | SUDAN Changing times 26th August 2011 The ruling National Congress Party warmly congratulated Libyans on ‘their victory against their long-term ruler’, recognising the Transitional National Council on 23 August. Yet, as South Sudan struggles,...
Vol 52 No 14 | SUDAN Abyei in limbo 8th July 2011 Ethiopia’s peacekeepers will face heavy scrutiny as Khartoum and Juba differ over Abyei and the still undemarcated border The Abyei Agreement signed by the Khartoum regime and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) in Addis Ababa on 20 June offers no respite for the more than...
Vol 52 No 14 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN Opposition hits the Embassy 8th July 2011 Southern Independence is already affecting Northern Sudan. In an unprecedented scuffle with oppositionists inside the London Embassy, Presidential Assistant Nafi’e Ali Nafi’e was hit on the head by...
Vol 52 No 13 | SUDAN Blood and oil 24th June 2011 Khartoum has intensified its war in central Sudan to crush its Nuba opponents and keep control of oil exports before partition After launching another war against his opponents and threatening to cut off South Sudan’s oil, President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir will meet top officials in China next...
Vol 52 No 12 | SUDAN Edging towards the brink 10th June 2011 Fears are rising at home and abroad that Khartoum’s attacks could take the South back to war as Independence dawns As the Sudanese regime bombs the Nuba heartland and moves Missiriya people into a near empty Abyei, tension is rising across Sudan, especially along the still undemarcated North-South...
Vol 52 No 12 | SUDAN ‘Fear and... fiction from Clooney’ 10th June 2011 Sudanese ministers are not used to being chased by protestors. Yet this is how Khartoum’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Ahmed Kurti left London’s sedate St. James’s Square...
Vol 52 No 12 | SUDAN Khartoum’s debt threat 10th June 2011 The Khartoum regime will face growing financial pressure after the formal split with the South on 9 July. That is partly why its Finance Minister, Ali Mahmoud Abdel...
Vol 52 No 11 | SUDAN Fighting for Abyei 27th May 2011 Bombing and looting on the North-South border this week may undermine Sudan’s formal partition in July The Khartoum regime’s all-out military attack on and occupation of the strategic region of Abyei is part of its hardening policy in the lead-up to Southern Sudan’s independence...