Vol 39 No 10 | SUDAN Peace means war 15th May 1998 The government's latest political weapon is the referendum but it's still fighting the war As the world briefly noticed the famine in southern Sudan, President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir presented 5,000 tonnes of grain - to Niger. On 6 May, he told visiting President Ib...
Vol 39 No 9 | SUDAN Marking time 1st May 1998 The government is buying time, the opposition is wasting it and the human costs are mounting The opposition National Democratic Alliance has spent months giving a free run to the ruling National Islamic Front. But this is a lull in the conflict, not a stalemate. The govern...
Vol 39 No 9 | SUDAN Famine strikes 1st May 1998 This month, as the international media began noticing the famine in Bahr el Ghazal, the SPLA leader, Colonel John Garang, was touring in Eastern Equatoria. Bordering Kenya and Ugan...
Vol 39 No 4 | SUDAN Political plane crash 20th February 1998 he 12 February plane crash which killed First Vice-President Major General El Zubeir Mohamed Salih is one of the biggest blows to the National Islamic Front since it seized power i...
Vol 39 No 1 | SUDAN 'Next year in Kadugli' 9th January 1998 The Nuba are caught in the middle but no one has asked them what they want All eyes are on the south and east in expectation of major fighting between the National Islamic Front government and the opposition National Democratic Alliance. Yet also crucial ...
Vol 39 No 1 | SUDAN Grassroots 9th January 1998 The first Nuba Advisory Council was convened by Sudan People's Liberation Army Commander Yousif Kuwa in 1992 after 400 of his troops died trying to bring ammunition into the Nuba M...
Vol 39 No 1 | SUDANLANDMINES Undermined 9th January 1998 Contrary to our article in AC Vol 38 No 25, Sudan is a signatory of the international treaty banning anti-personnel landmines (APMs) agreed in Ottawa in December. However, Khartoum...
Vol 38 No 25 | SUDAN Cairo competes 19th December 1997 Secret efforts by Egypt to get the National Democratic Alliance talking to the National Islamic Front government may be overtaken by the opposition's dry-season offensive.The Sudan...
Vol 38 No 21 | SUDAN Not at ease 24th October 1997 The government's reshuffle of top army posts is widely considered a bid to be seen to be doing something amid rising protest against the pressganging of teenagers for the war front...
Vol 38 No 19 | SUDANUNITED KINGDOM Torture charge 26th September 1997 In what is believed to be the first such case ever, a Sudanese doctor has been charged in Scotland with committing torture in the Sudan. On 5 September, Tayside Police arrested Moh...