Awad Ahmed el Jaz

Awad Ahmed al Jaz who as energy minister was one of the pillars of Omer el Beshir's Ingaz (Salvation) regime was acquitted by a court in Khartoum of embezzlement relating to US$150 million allocated to the building of the Mashkur sugar factory in While Nile state...

Ghandour had also clashed badly with the former oil minister Awad Ahmed al Jaz who was appointed as a presidential aide to manage relations with China and Turkey whose investments in Sudan are critically important for the regime...

The inner political core consists of four other veterans of the 1989 coup which overthrew Premier El Sadig: Vice-President Bakri Hassan Salih Khartoum State Governor and ex-Defence Minister Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein Parliament Speaker Ibrahim Ahmed Omer and ubiquitous money-man Awad Ahmed el Jaz (AC Vol 56 No 9 The President's new clothes Vol 46 No 4 Who's who on Darfur...

On 8 June Field Marshal Omer had ordered Oil Minister Awad Ahmed el Jaz a veteran NCP baron and bagman (AC Vol 51 No 22 Khartoum's new export trade) to shut down the pipeline from South Sudan on the following day...

Awad Ahmed el Jaz is a stalwart of the National Congress Party (formerly National Islamic Front NIF) Sudan’s ruling party since 1989...

Awad el Jaz also holds many of the NCP’s pursestrings (AC Vol 51 No 22 Khartoum's new export trade) and is seen as one of its most powerful politicians...

Now Khartoum must prop up its economy and Awad el Jaz is moving to increase crude production at the disputed Heglig oilfield – claimed and formerly administered by South Sudan – to 80 000 barrels a day while seeking new reserves...

CNPC said that its company President Zhou Jiping had met Sudanese Petroleum Minister Awad Ahmed el Jaz in Beijing on 28 August...

One traveller is Industry Minister Awad Ahmed al Jaz who made a substantial trip to China last month...

When Awad Ahmed el Jaz told a National Congress Party youth meeting on 1 August that the separation of the South 'cannot be allowed under any circumstances' it was no slip of the tongue...

Another delegation under Finance and former Oil Minister Awad Ahmed el Jaz State (junior) Finance Minister Lual Achuek Lual Deng (Sudan People’s Liberation Movement close to the leadership) and central bank Deputy Governor Badr el Din Mahmoud Abbas visited on 23-28 January...

On 25 January we hear Awad el Jaz privately met International Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn...

Finance Minister Awad Ahmed el Jaz (the long-time Energy Minister and a preferred interlocutor with Beijing) is due to visit China Japan Russia and Turkey...