Vol 47 No 16 | SUDAN After Darfur's deal 4th August 2006 The Western-backed peace agreement has led to more fighting, much to Khartoum's delight The Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) is in tatters, two months after it was signed in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. The two signatories, the Sudan government and Minni Arkou Minnawi's w...
Vol 47 No 15 | SUDANUGANDA Opening broadside 21st July 2006 The LRA's insistence on sharing political power and wealth is threatening the peace process Opening peace talks with Kampala last week, Lord's Resistance Army representatives began with a broadside against President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's government. It underlined the ...
Vol 47 No 15 | SUDANUGANDA Pressure mounts to end neglect of the North 21st July 2006 When Yoweri Kaguta Museveni seized power in 1986, one of his aims was to end Uganda's political, ethnic and religious fragmentation. That he succeeded only partially was clear at F...
Vol 47 No 15 | SUDAN Khartoum's veto 21st July 2006 A United Nations-backed conference in Brussels on 18-19 July brought in delegations from over 70 countries and raised about US$200 million for peacekeeping and humanitarian work in...
Vol 47 No 11 | SUDANUGANDA Taping the LRA 26th May 2006 South Sudan tries to bring Uganda's rebels to peace but not to justice At the celebrations to mark the founding of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army on 16 May, Southern Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit told supporters that his fledglin...
Vol 47 No 11 | SUDAN Southern discomfort 26th May 2006 The new Government of Southern Sudan has to reconcile the rivalries of its many peoples, exacerbated for decades by Khartoum regimes. The mandatory disarmament is proving tricky – ...
Vol 47 No 11 | SUDANAFRICAN UNIONBRITAIN Konaré's stopover 26th May 2006 NATO had offered to provide 'substantial support' to the African Union in Darfur under new arrangements to strengthen its peacekeeping operation there, said a communiqué following ...
Vol 47 No 10 | SUDAN It's the government, stupid 12th May 2006 If it doesn't trigger the dispatch of a protection force, the Darfur accord will have failed In the Abuja deal, the victims barely figure. The document is long and detailed but offers little substantial or enforceable political or economic change. The Khartoum regime is un...
Vol 47 No 10 | SUDAN The heart of the matter 12th May 2006 More is emerging about the state of health of Intelligence Director General Salah Abdullah 'Gosh', who visited Britain in March for medical reasons and talks with the government. ...
Vol 47 No 9 | CHADSUDAN Foreign fingers 28th April 2006 Since 2003, Paris has both backed President Idriss Déby and tried to prevent its allies discussing Chad. This has weakened Chad's unarmed opposition, which has anyway been m...