Sudan

The Khartoum regime's drive to become a major oil producer is systematically killing Sudan's southern citizens and and destroying their homes. Backed by Western and Asian companies...

Foreign companies benefitting from the oil bonanza include: The pipeline: built by the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the line consists half of Chinese pipe, half of...

The arrest of the National Islamic Front government's founding father, Hassan el Turabi, on 21 February sent ripples of glee through Sudanese communities: the previous two times he...

Cairo is trying to coopt Western governments, Algeria and Saudi Arabia into a scheme to present President George W. Bush's new team with a detailed ready-made policy for dialogue w...

As we went to press, Sudanese were still celebrating Khartoum's failure to get elected to the United Nations Security Council on 10 October. This is the same Council which imposed ...

The National Islamic Front still gets foreign mileage from the much hyped dispute between President Omer el Beshir and chief ideologue Hassan el Turabi. At home, the quarrel has ta...

A multinational part-owned by the World Bank's International Finance Corporation is making a deal with Sudan Telecom (Sudatel), a majority of whose shares are controlled by the Nat...

Some of the questions we ask may be too personal but our aim is to ensure that you will not become a burden on the British taxpayer'. This daunting message, posted up in Arabic, gr...

Due to Transatlantic crossed wires, we said 'the son of TotalFina boss Thierry Desmarest is married to Canadian Premier Jean Chrétien's daughter, provoking discussions in pa...

The National Islamic Front government's bid to get United Nations sanctions lifted and claim a seat at the international table is reaching a climax. It could well succeed. Yet as A...