Vol 50 No 2 | SUDANUNITED STATES No longer at ease 23rd January 2009 In the last months of President George Walker Bush's reign, US officials pressed the Khartoum regime over Darfur and Abyei by telling leaders, 'If you think we're tough,...
Vol 50 No 2 | SUDAN Bargaining with warlords 23rd January 2009 Southern Sudan is still run like a feudal state, with President Salva Kiir Mayardit appointing people from among competing factions and ethnic interest groups in a complex balancing...
Vol 50 No 2 | SUDAN Khartoum's bankers 23rd January 2009 Lloyds TSB, recently bailed out by the British government, has had to pay fines of US$350 million for breaking United States' sanctions on Sudan, Libya and Iran, following...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 11 | SUDANCHINA The oil revenue row 22nd September 2009 Scrutiny of oil figures from CNPC suggests that the Khartoum government has been cheating the South of substantial revenues Beijing faces a new round of criticism over its heavy investments in Sudan's oil business following the publication of a report by British lobbyists Global Witness(1) on 7 September pointing to...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 5 | SUDANCHINA Business is politics 27th March 2009 The ICC's issuing of the arrest warrant for the Sudanese President exposes the contradictions in China's 'business is business' policy The arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir issued by the International Criminal Court on 4 March comprehensively overshadowed the golden jubilee of Chinese-Sudanese relations. March...
Vol 49 No 25 | SUDAN Here for the beer 12th December 2008 The South African brewery giant SABMiller opened a new beer factory in Juba this week, the first plant in Sudan since President Jaafar Mohamed Nimeiri symbolically threw at...
Vol 49 No 22 | KENYASUDAN Pirates and tanks 31st October 2008 The news that the arms onboard the hijacked MV Faina were destined for the Government of Southern Sudan – via Kenyan end-user certificates and covert transport –...
Vol 49 No 21 | SUDANBRITAIN Brothers reunited 17th October 2008 Those who thought that the 1999 split in the National Islamic front, when Hassan Abdullah el Turabi was officially sidelined, would seriously change Khartoum’s Islamist regime might be...
Vol 49 No 21 | SUDAN Khartoum's strategy 17th October 2008 The threat of an indictment for war crimes of Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir by the International Criminal Court has not diminished the Khartoum regime’s willingness...
Vol 49 No 20 | KENYASOMALIASUDAN Arms and the boys 3rd October 2008 Somalia's pirates are busy guarding the 33 Ukrainian tanks and other equipment captured on the MV Faina on 25 September. United States' naval vessels surround the ship...