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Sudan

Population: 37 million
GNI: $29900 million
Debt: $11700 million
Overview:

President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's National Congress will fight on several fronts: suppressing rebellions in Darfur and undermining the weak UN mission; in proxy wars with Chad and the Central African Republic; and keeping pressure on South Sudan.

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  • Vol 49 No 14
  • 04/07/2008

Kony causes trouble again

The rebel chief Kony's refusal to make peace causes trouble between Uganda and South Sudan

  • Vol 49 No 12
  • 06/06/2008

The cracks spread

Rifts in the Unity Government become public but the Northern opposition again fails to seize its chance

  • Vol 49 No 11
  • 23/05/2008

Battle of Omdurman

The Darfur rebel attack on the capital exposes the weaknesses of the Islamist National Congress regime

  • Vol 49 No 11
  • 23/05/2008

Who is JEM?

The Justice and Equality (initially Justice and Equity) Movement was founded in late 2002, after government-backed militias intensified their attacks in Darfur; it became operational by late 2003. It presents itself as secular, with agendas for both Da...

  • Vol 49 No 11
  • 23/05/2008

Abyei devastated

Heavy fighting between the Sudan Armed Forces and the SPLA points to more conflict ahead

  • Vol 49 No 10
  • 09/05/2008

Oddly normal II

The rapprochement between Sudan and the United States continues apace but US Special Envoy Richard Williamson has warned that he does not foresee full 'normalisation' during his tenure and that stronger sanctions are still possible (AC Vol 49 No 9). T...

  • Vol 49 No 9
  • 25/04/2008

Oddly normal

Spies and diplomats are secretly negotiating the lifting of all US sanctions on Khartoum

  • Vol 49 No 9
  • 25/04/2008

Number crunching

The two-week national census, which began on 22 April, will not provide accurate information on the size of the population but it will strengthen the regime’s grip on that population. It has given the ruling National Congress (aka National Islamic Front) ...

  • Vol 49 No 8
  • 11/04/2008

The real dividing line

Oil, ideology and a bitter history worsen the dispute over where to draw the North-South border

  • Vol 49 No 8
  • 11/04/2008

The main points of the Abyei Protocol

The then First Vice-President, Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, and the late Sudan People's Liberation Movement Chairman, Colonel John Garang de Mabior, signed the Principles of Agreement on Abyei on 26 May 2004 in Naivasha, Kenya. It begins, 'Abyei is a bridg...

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