Vol 5 (AAC) No 2 | SUDANSOUTH SUDANCHINA Pipeline problems 13th December 2011 On 28 November, Sudan’s Petroleum Minister Ali Ahmed Osman announced that South Sudan would no longer be able to export its crude through the northern pipeline and Port Sudan, prov...
Vol 52 No 23 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN Implausible denials 18th November 2011 As the Sudan Revolutionary Front is launched, the regime tries to parry opposition in the North by bombing South Sudan Khartoum’s bombing of a refugee camp in South Sudan on 10 November has drawn unprecedented condemnation and stirred fears of a return to full-scale war between North and South. The...
Vol 52 No 21 | SUDAN Opposition on the march 21st October 2011 Political and military oppositionists coordinate their campaigns as economic pressures mount on Khartoum A new military-political alliance of northern oppositionists is determinedly confronting the Khartoum regime, just three months after South Sudan formally seceded. The two developm...
Vol 52 No 21 | SUDAN Military momentum 21st October 2011 The impetus for the opposition’s new determination comes from the military success of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states. The SPLA-N...
Vol 52 No 21 | MALAWISUDAN Brothers-in-arms 21st October 2011 Western governments seem unimpressed by the efforts of Foreign Minister Arthur Peter Mutharika, brother of President Bingu wa Mutharika, to persuade them to restore aid to Malawi. ...
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 26 Dec...
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 the...
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, a...
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 150,000 people cha...
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 h...