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Sudan
Population: 40.1 mn.
GDP: 65.3 bn.
Debt: 35.0 bn.
Overview:

South Sudan's secession will remain the dominant issue, with border demarcation, Abyei, citizenship and oil unresolved. The National Congress Party will dig in while the economy continues its decline. Opposition, both civilian and armed, will spread.

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  • Vol 53 No 3
  •  3rd February 2012

The South goes for sovereignty

Juba turns off the oil and turns up the pressure in its fraught negotiations with Khartoum over oil, cash, security and citizenship

  • Vol 53 No 3
  •  3rd February 2012

Who pays the pipeline

Whatever the outcome of the oil talks between the Khartoum and Juba governments, the current crisis has focused thinking on southward leading pipelines. Industry and diplomatic opinion is divided but there is a growing view that at least one line is comme...

  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

Drop the pilot

A letter to the National Congress Party has emerged this week from some 1,000 Islamist activists, including Salafists, secretly egged on by Hassan el Turabi, we hear. It accuses the NCP of betraying the Islamist movement and (after 22 years) distances the...

  • Vol 53 No 1
  •  6th January 2012

The future is military

The main question this year is how far Khartoum will pursue militarism to compensate for its loss of the South

  • Vol 52 No 23
  •  18th November 2011

Implausible denials

As the Sudan Revolutionary Front is launched, the regime tries to parry opposition in the North by bombing South Sudan

  • Vol 52 No 21
  •  21st October 2011

Opposition on the march

Political and military oppositionists coordinate their campaigns as economic pressures mount on Khartoum

  • Vol 52 No 21
  •  21st October 2011

Military momentum

The impetus for the opposition’s new determination comes from the military success of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states. The SPLA-N says it holds most of South Kordofan and four of Blue Nile’s six counties....

  • Vol 52 No 21
  •  21st October 2011

Brothers-in-arms

Western governments seem unimpressed by the efforts of Foreign Minister Arthur Peter Mutharika, brother of President Bingu wa Mutharika, to persuade them to restore aid to Malawi. Concern escalated sharply after police shot dead 19 adults and children at ...

  • Vol 52 No 19
  •  23rd September 2011

Terrorist listing

One leaked United States cable must have pleased a Khartoum regime eager toescape the US State Sponsors of Terrorism list. A ‘confidential’ note from the Khartoum Embassy of 26 December 2006, released by WikiLeaks this month, says Sudan keeps confidential...

  • Vol 52 No 18
  •  9th September 2011

Lobbying on

Just as Mozambique’s Resistência Nacional Moçambicana threatens to return to violence, the man who championed it at the height of its atrocities has surfaced in papers found in the offices in Libya of Moammar el Gadaffi’s fallen Prime Minister, El Baghdad...

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