The news that the arms onboard the hijacked MV Faina were destined for the
Government of Southern Sudan – via Kenyan end-user certificates and
covert transport – has damaged Nairobi-Khartoum relations (AC Vol 49 No
20) and may lead to the cancellatio...
Those who thought that the 1999 split in the National Islamic front, when Hassan Abdullah el Turabi was officially sidelined, would seriously change Khartoum’s Islamist regime might be surprised to see leaders from each faction appearing together at an in...
The threat of an indictment for war crimes of Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir by the International Criminal Court has not diminished the Khartoum regime’s willingness to sponsor wars inneighbouring states. Indeed,itmay want to use its sponso...
Somalia's pirates are busy guarding the 33 Ukrainian tanks
and other equipment captured on the MV Faina on 25 September.
United States' naval vessels surround the ship and the
Russian navy is authorised by Somali authorities to use
force to liberate ...
Khartoum's diplomats are lobbying hard at the UN to block an arrest warrant for President Omer for genocide and war crimes
Iran is supplying Khartoum with military equipment for its
attacks in Darfur, in clear breach of the United Nations arms embargo, Africa
Confidential has learned. On 28 August, the Sudan Liberation
Movement-Unity Command shot down an Iranian-made Ababi...
A US lawsuit claims that the Sudanese and Iranian regimes
plotted the bombing of two East African US embassies in 1998
Below are key quotes from the 5 August complaint filed in a
US civil court against the Sudanese and Iranian governments:
'The Defendant, the Republic of the Sudan, acting through
the Defendant, the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of
the Sud...
An international court accuses President Omer el Beshir but he has some unlikely defenders
There has been a strong international reaction to the ICC's application for an arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omer el Beshir for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. But who is supporting the ICC's move against the Sudanese re...
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