Vol 45 No 10 | SUDAN Tragic contradictions 14th May 2004 UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who on the anniversary of the start of Rwanda's genocide raised the possibility of military intervention in Darfur, has been trying to galvanise th...
Vol 45 No 9 | SUDAN Mass murder 30th April 2004 Ten years after Rwanda's genocide, the NIF regime kills and displaces tens of thousands of civilians in Darfur – with impunity Civilians in Darfur continue to die as a result of the National Islamic Front regime's ethnic cleansing and in the absence of serious diplomatic pressure. United Nations Secretary ...
Vol 45 No 9 | SUDAN Algerian bullets 30th April 2004 Late last month, an Ilyushin-76 aircraft with clear Algerian air force markings unloaded ten tonnes of ammunition at Abéché airport, 170 kilometres from Chad's border...
Vol 45 No 7 | SUDAN Under arrest, again 2nd April 2004 Darfur burns as the US deadline for a peace deal for the South draws near The National Islamic Front claims to have foiled a coup attempt but its arrest of senior military officers and NIF founder Hassan Abdullah el Turabi owes more to pressure from Darf...
Vol 45 No 2 | SUDAN No mistake 23rd January 2004 Khartoum's surprise announcement of a month's break in the peace talks worries Washington. It had expected a peace deal for President George Bush to celebrate in his State of the U...
Vol 44 No 25 | CHADSUDAN The language of weapons 19th December 2003 A sick President and armed uprisings threaten attempts to share out the oil more fairly Armed opposition is on the rise again, as anti-government militias train in Sudan and politicians grow restless in N'djamena. The unrest puts at risk not only the ailing President ...
Vol 44 No 25 | CHADSUDAN Dead men tell tales 19th December 2003 Ibn Omer Youssef Idriss, a Sudanese businessman, was shot dead at point blank range outside Chad's Foreign Ministry on 25 September. Six weeks later, on 6 November, four men who ha...
Vol 44 No 24 | SUDAN Armed and angry 5th December 2003 Militias: mediators ignore them, Garang shuns them, the NIF loves them Sudan's peace talks are rumbling to a probable conclusion imposed by the 'Troika' of interested Western governments the United States, Britain and Norway within a few months or eve...
Vol 44 No 21 | SUDAN Peace in our time 24th October 2003 Two very different visions of what peace means holds up Washington's planned announcement Colin Powell was disappointed. The expected signing of a partial Sudan peace agreement during the United States Secretary of State's trip to Kenya was replaced by the two sides agr...
Vol 44 No 21 | SUDAN Another Addis agreement? 24th October 2003 Conflicting visions reign of what is really going on in the Machakos negotiations, with a large gap between Sudanese participants and many of the foreigners involved. Sudanese reme...