Vol 47 No 9 | SUDAN Oddest bedfellows 28th April 2006 We hear that at high-level diplomatic meetings in London, Paris and Washington in December 2005, intelligence officers from Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, the United States...
Vol 47 No 7 | SUDAN Pressing for a deal 31st March 2006 After three years of mass murder in Darfur, the West is in a hurry for a peace accord to enable UN troops to deploy Mediators at talks on Darfur are scrambling for a rapid peace deal that would allow United Nations' troops to deploy in the region, where murders and rapes perpetrated by Khartoum'...
Vol 47 No 7 | CHADSUDAN On the frontline 31st March 2006 Darfur's troubles are fuelled by violence flowing both ways across the Chadian border, some of it orchestrated by the Sudanese regime. Meanwhile, President Idriss Déby Itno ...
Vol 47 No 6 | SUDANBRITAIN Now you see him 17th March 2006 Who brought Sudan's security boss, Salah Abdullah 'Gosh', to London last week? He is number two on the United Nations Panel of Experts' list of 'individuals identified' for sanctio...
Vol 47 No 5 | SUDAN Names and blames 3rd March 2006 How did the United Nations Panel of Experts on Sudan pick its candidates for sanctions over Darfur war crimes? The confidential annex of 22 names, leaked last week, may not entirel...
Vol 47 No 4 | SUDAN Smooth operator 17th February 2006 Just as Western governments begin to note the regime's lack of financial transparency, the ruling National Islamic Front-National Congress has another bonanza. On 6 February, Kuwai...
Vol 47 No 2 | SUDAN 'Beyond that now' 20th January 2006 The UN is to test last September's anti-war crimes resolution in Darfur As the plight of civilians in Darfur worsens, United Nations' troops may take over from those of the African Union later this year. Yet will they have the power to intervene milita...
Vol 46 No 25 | SUDAN Another front, another deal 16th December 2005 As anger grows in the east, rebel groups are due to talk to the Khartoum regime next month On 15 January, Libya is to host talks between Khartoum's Islamist government and rebels grouped in the Eastern Front organisation. Last month, the Front attended a workshop at its ...
Vol 46 No 21 | SUDAN Gunmen or soldiers? 21st October 2005 Two big threats hang over the new regional government of Southern Sudan The new administration in Southern Sudan is not receiving the promised oil money from the National Congress-dominated government in Khartoum. At the same time, the stability of the...
Vol 46 No 21 | SUDAN Fighting the battle of Jericho 21st October 2005 Khartoum is starving the South of its oil revenue. January's Comprehensive Peace Agreement allocated to the Government of South Sudan half of the revenue from oil produced in the S...