Vol 50 No 6 | SUDAN New battles for Darfur 20th March 2009 As some SLM factions regroup, the Justice and Equality Movement tries to position itself for a new order The political crisis in Khartoum after the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir has fostered new hopes among the opposition, not ...
Vol 50 No 6 | SUDAN Khartoum fights back 20th March 2009 President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir made a long and inflammatory speech at a 16 March ceremony in Khartoum's Green Square. The Sudan Armed Forces, security, militia and police sw...
Vol 50 No 5 | SUDAN Omer the outlaw 6th March 2009 The Islamist regime shows its true colours as the ICC issues the arrest warrant for President Omer el Beshir The arrest warrant for President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir, which the International Criminal Court issued on 4 March, is a landmark event (AC Vol 50 Nos 2 & 4). For Sudan, th...
Vol 50 No 4 | SUDAN Nice enough 20th February 2009 Instead of going down in history as the man who prosecuted Slobodan Milosevic for genocide, Sir Geoffrey Nice may be remembered as the man who tried to save Omer Hassan Ahmed el Be...
Vol 50 No 2 | SUDAN New politics, new threats 23rd January 2009 Three new developments will shape Sudan's politics this year: the International Criminal Court's (ICC) issue of an arrest warrant for President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir; the planned elections under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement; and the inauguration of President Barack Obama's government in the United States with a clear commitment to act against Khartoum's mass murder in Darfur. New politics, new threats The ruling National Congress (NC, aka National Islamic Front) is struggling to adapt to new realities. A dozen years of meticulous planning and patient en...
Vol 50 No 2 | SUDANUNITED STATES No longer at ease 23rd January 2009 In the last months of President George Walker Bush's reign, US officials pressed the Khartoum regime over Darfur and Abyei by telling leaders, 'If you think we're tough, wait till ...
Vol 50 No 2 | SUDAN Bargaining with warlords 23rd January 2009 Southern Sudan is still run like a feudal state, with President Salva Kiir Mayardit appointing people from among competing factions and ethnic interest groups in a complex balancin...
Vol 50 No 2 | SUDAN Khartoum's bankers 23rd January 2009 Lloyds TSB, recently bailed out by the British government, has had to pay fines of US$350 million for breaking United States' sanctions on Sudan, Libya and Iran, following an inves...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 11 | SUDANCHINA The oil revenue row 22nd September 2009 Scrutiny of oil figures from CNPC suggests that the Khartoum government has been cheating the South of substantial revenues Beijing faces a new round of criticism over its heavy investments in Sudan's oil business following the publication of a report by British lobbyists Global Witness(1) on 7 Septem...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 5 | SUDANCHINA Business is politics 27th March 2009 The ICC's issuing of the arrest warrant for the Sudanese President exposes the contradictions in China's 'business is business' policy The arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir issued by the International Criminal Court on 4 March comprehensively overshadowed the golden jubilee of Chin...