Vol 51 No 17 | SUDAN No referee for the referenda 27th August 2010 Khartoum is determined to block January’s referenda; the South is determined to hold them Four months before the scheduled referenda that would decide Sudan’s future borders, the ruling National Congress Party in Khartoum is now openly saying that a ‘credible’ referendu...
Vol 51 No 17 | SUDAN Strategy of sabotage 27th August 2010 The National Congress Party employs a variety of tactics to sabotage January’s referenda. Because a 60% quorum (of a still undefined electorate) is needed and a 51% vote for or aga...
Vol 51 No 16 | SUDAN Under no circumstances 6th August 2010 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 ...
Vol 51 No 15 | SUDANBRITAIN Khartoum's most wanted 23rd July 2010 The first test for the International Criminal Court's 12 July arrest warrant for genocide against President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir is his visit to Ndjamena this week. Chad rat...
Vol 51 No 15 | EGYPTSUDAN Secret talks 23rd July 2010 Egypt has quietly accepted that Southern Sudanese may choose independence in January's referendum in return for assurances that the Juba government will not abandon the 1959 Nile W...
Vol 51 No 13 | SUDAN Crisis cabinets 25th June 2010 The new teams in Khartoum and Juba will face a tense six months before the referendum – and the threat of a war that some want and many expect The message from the new government in Khartoum is that the National Congress Party is in full control and intends to stay there. The message from the new Government of Southern Su...
Vol 51 No 13 | SUDAN The international agenda 25th June 2010 The most dramatic military-security appointment is of Ali Ahmed Kurti as full Foreign Affairs Minister (he was previously State Minister). He is best known for establishing the Pop...
Vol 51 No 12 | SUDAN Flash point Southern Kordofan 11th June 2010 Amid complaints of Khartoum’s meddling and the SPLM’s betrayal, how South Kordofan reacts will be critical to the referenda in January The rerun of the population census in South Kordofan next week will highlight another flash point in Sudan’s shaky North-South peace agreement ahead of the referenda on self-determ...
Vol 51 No 12 | SUDAN Militias of the new age 11th June 2010 In the seven short months before January’s independence referendum, militias in the South’s oil-producing areas – Upper Nile, Jonglei and Unity states – will be one of the main cha...
Vol 51 No 12 | SUDAN Oily alliances 11th June 2010 A new oil consortium operating in Darfur brings together private Arab, Gabonese and Libyan state interests and companies close to Khartoum’s ruling National Congress Party. It also...