Vol 55 No 1 | SOUTH SUDAN The state cracks 10th January 2014 Big political changes will be needed to relaunch Africa’s newest country and bring it back from the abyss A long road lies ahead before the mediators can secure a ceasefire between South Sudan’s warring factions, let alone embark on serious negotiations to consolidate a new political...
Vol 55 No 1 | SOUTH SUDAN The political stakes on YouTube 10th January 2014 The political issues in dispute are substantial, as can be seen from the leading dissidents who organised a press conference on 6 December in Juba. The conference, which...
Vol 55 No 1 | SOUTH SUDAN From power struggle to uprising 19th December 2013 The clashes between rival factions in the SPLA that started in the capital on 15 December are spreading alarmingly fast The capture of Bor, about 100 kilometres north of Juba, on 18 December by troops loyal to General Peter Gatdet Yaka showed the political and military fragility of...
Vol 54 No 19 | SOUTH SUDAN Legacy of war 19th September 2013 More accusations of human rights abuses in Jonglei challenge Salva's new government and its army The Sudan People's Liberation Army stands accused again of widespread violations against civilians in its attempts to suppress a rebellion in Jonglei State. On 12 September, Human Rights...
Vol 54 No 17 | SOUTH SUDAN Powers of separation 22nd August 2013 The struggle continues for a new state as old comrades fall out When Parliament turned down President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s choice of Justice Minister on 13 August, it was greeted as a victory for democracy in the face of an...
Vol 54 No 16 | SUDANSOUTH SUDANUNITED NATIONS Mission impossible 30th July 2013 The UN Security Council renews its peacekeepers’ mandate in Darfur but UN operations in Sudan have failed to protect civilians or prevent war The worsening political crises in Juba and Khartoum are fuelling hostilities between the two capitals. When South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit sacked his cabinet on 23 July,...
Vol 54 No 16 | SOUTH SUDAN A power struggle, not a coup 1st August 2013 President Salva has opened the leadership contest by sacking his deputy and all his ministers – and has strengthened his position in the process When President Salva Kiir Mayardit sacked his Vice-President, all his ministers, the governing party’s Secretary General and several senior police officers on 23 July, the world greeted it...
Vol 54 No 13 | SOUTH SUDAN New investors, armed and dangerous 17th June 2013 Juba's search for investment dollars has attracted disgraced European politicians and American military entrepreneurs Now styling himself an 'independent financial analyst', Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrived in Juba on 14 May to help highlight the launch of the National Credit Bank. Before falling from...
Vol 54 No 13 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN Turning the oil taps on and off again 17th June 2013 Khartoum's latest threat to shut down South Sudan's oil pipeline may look like political retaliation against the Juba government but it was prompted by a growing internal crisis in Sudan Just as oil had just started to flow again from South Sudan to Sudan, after months of negotiations and external pressure, Sudan's President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir...
Vol 54 No 13 | SOUTH SUDAN Unhappy anniversary 17th June 2013 This time Khartoum turns off Juba's oil taps in a move that will damage both countries' economies and escalate tensions across the border The meeting between Khartoum's hawkish Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Kurti and China's Africa envoy Zhong Jianhua on 16 June over Sudan's plans to cut South Sudan's export pipeline...