Sudan

Over halfway through the six-month 'humanitarian ceasefire' brokered by the United States for the Nuba Mountains, the National Islamic Front (aka National Congress) government has ...

The odd agreement between Khartoum and Kampala allowing Ugandan troops into Sudan to attack the Lord's Resistance Army was renewed last week till mid-May. For both sides this has m...

India's state-owned ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL) and Indian Oil Corporation are in talks to buy Talisman Energy's Sudan operations. Canada's Talisman is under pressure because of the Nat...

Is southern Sudan, already burdened with enough problems of its own, becoming enmeshed in another proxy war on its border with Ethiopia? Such fears follow the arrival in eastern Su...

The National Islamic Front (or National Congress) government has mounted a massive air and ground offensive in oil-rich Western Upper Nile to counter the regrouping of opposition g...

The biggest successes of John Garang's four-day visit to Britain came not at his brief encounters with the government which had invited him for the first time but at his long meeti...

As one Special Envoy gives up trying to bring peace to Sudan, another pops up with the same mission. United States Senator John Danforth is expected to abandon his brief next month...

Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, First Vice-President, National Islamic Front (National Congress) leader and the country's most powerful man, is ill. A reported heart attack took him to Jor...

The ceasefire for the Nuba Mountains which the National Islamic Front government signed with the Sudan People's Liberation Army in Bürgenstock, Switzerland, on 19 January, wen...

Many unusual cargoes have been delivered to Sudan in recent years, as former resident Usama bin Laden knows. Yet one of the strangest (though not necessarily most dangerous) must s...