Vol 48 No 20 | SENEGALSUDAN Wrong number again 5th October 2007 Karim Wade, the son of President Abdoulaye Wade, is the subject of complaints about the award of Senegal's third mobile phone licence to Sudatel, whose closest competitor, Celtel (...
Vol 48 No 19 | SUDAN Southern warning 21st September 2007 Negotiations between Khartoum and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army in 2003-05 diverted attention from Khartoum’s mass murder and ethnic cleansing in Darfur; now the Isla...
Vol 48 No 18 | SUDAN Darfur deadlines 7th September 2007 Western troop contributors fall behind schedule while Khartoum expels Western diplomats and aid workers The United Nations has missed its first deadline for deploying peacekeepers in Darfur - not because of African Union recalcitrance but because non-African governments failed to off...
Vol 48 No 17 | SUDAN Mission improbable 24th August 2007 Khartoum's schemings, political rows and logistical shortages are undermining the Darfur peacekeeping force African Union Commission Chairman Alpha Oumar Konaré's statement in Khartoum on 12 August that the planned 26,000-strong peacekeeping force for Darfur would be entirely Afri...
Vol 48 No 17 | SUDAN Half and half 24th August 2007 The United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) is half of the process; the other half involves negotiations between rebels and regime. This requires a common platform ...
Vol 48 No 17 | SUDAN Who's Who in the war and peace talks 24th August 2007 The Sudan Liberation Movement faction of Abdel Wahed Mohamed Ahmed el Nur boycotted this month's Arusha talks. This matters because it is the second largest military group and thou...
Vol 48 No 17 | SUDAN Smokescreen 24th August 2007 Under growing international pressure, Khartoum's National Congress (aka National Islamic Front) is uncovering 'internal plots'. On 14 July, it arrested Umma Party renegade and form...
Vol 48 No 15 | SUDAN Salva's shuffle 20th July 2007 The Juba government is preparing a more militant response to Khartoum's political and economic obstructionism Southern President Salva Kiir Mayardit wants to get a stronger grip on his government as dissatisfaction grows and tensions mount with the Khartoum government. Salva has effective...
Vol 48 No 15 | SUDAN White Nile sees red in the south 20th July 2007 Now that Britain's White Nile Limited has been forced out of Sudan, the biggest question for its founders, former England cricketer Phillipe Edmonds and his partner Andrew Groves, ...
Vol 48 No 13 | SUDAN At the barrel of a gun 22nd June 2007 International pressure has at last forced Khartoum to agree to a UN-backed protection force in Darfur but the struggle won't stop there A mixture of scepticism and hope greets Khartoum's claims that it has unconditionally accepted that around 20,000 peacekeepers will be deployed in Darfur by 2008. Interested govern...