Vol 48 No 17 | SUDAN Who's Who in the war and peace talks 24th August 2007 The Sudan Liberation Movement faction of Abdel Wahed Mohamed Ahmed el Nur boycotted this month's Arusha talks. This matters because it is the second largest military group and...
Vol 48 No 17 | SUDAN Smokescreen 24th August 2007 Under growing international pressure, Khartoum's National Congress (aka National Islamic Front) is uncovering 'internal plots'. On 14 July, it arrested Umma Party renegade and former minister Mubarek Abdullahi...
Vol 48 No 15 | SUDAN Salva's shuffle 20th July 2007 The Juba government is preparing a more militant response to Khartoum's political and economic obstructionism Southern President Salva Kiir Mayardit wants to get a stronger grip on his government as dissatisfaction grows and tensions mount with the Khartoum government. Salva has effectively...
Vol 48 No 15 | SUDAN White Nile sees red in the south 20th July 2007 Now that Britain's White Nile Limited has been forced out of Sudan, the biggest question for its founders, former England cricketer Phillipe Edmonds and his partner Andrew Groves,...
Vol 48 No 13 | SUDAN At the barrel of a gun 22nd June 2007 International pressure has at last forced Khartoum to agree to a UN-backed protection force in Darfur but the struggle won't stop there A mixture of scepticism and hope greets Khartoum's claims that it has unconditionally accepted that around 20,000 peacekeepers will be deployed in Darfur by 2008. Interested governments and...
Vol 48 No 13 | SUDAN Intelligent design 22nd June 2007 Claims that Sudan gives the United States intelligence on Al Qaida in Somalia and Iraq - and Khartoum's rapid denial - have revived important questions. Does this 'intelligence...
Vol 48 No 13 | SUDAN In denial, in extremis 22nd June 2007 The United Nations' Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Darfur of 8 June sets targets and deadlines with which it says the Sudanese regime should comply....
Vol 48 No 12 | SUDAN Sanction action 8th June 2007 If they do little else, United States' sanctions on Sudan, strengthened on 29 May, draw attention to the scope for economic pressure on the Islamist regime.
Vol 48 No 10 | SUDAN Africa's mission undermined 11th May 2007 A weak hybrid force of African Union and United Nations troops with little or no reconnaissance or intelligence capacity looks the most probable outcome of the negotiations on...
Vol 48 No 10 | SUDAN Caught in the act 11th May 2007 An Amnesty report claims that Russia and China are supplying arms to Sudan for use against Darfur civilians Pressure for a no-fly zone in Darfur and tougher United Nations' sanctions on Khartoum will increase after Amnesty International's report on 7 May detailing the regime's flouting of...