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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 50 No 9
  •  1st May 2009

Who shoots first?

The regimes in N’djamena and Khartoum are preparing for another proxy war, this time with more guns and better technology

  • Vol 50 No 9
  •  1st May 2009

Warnings

International concern is rising over the North-South peace deal and the national elections due under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. This week, the head of the CPA's Assessment and Evaluation Commission, Sir Derek Plumbly, a British former Ambassador t...

  • Vol 50 No 7
  •  3rd April 2009

Air strikes and silence

Why was Khartoum so reluctant to admit that its arms transhipments had been hit by Israeli air strikes?

  • Vol 50 No 7
  •  3rd April 2009

Security in disguise

Khartoum’s expulsion of 13 international non-governmental organisations has provided an opportunity for asset stripping (AC Vol 50 No 6). Instead of handing over premises, equipment and data to other INGOs to maintain the humanitarian pipeline before the ...

  • Vol 50 No 6
  •  20th March 2009

New battles for Darfur

As some SLM factions regroup, the Justice and Equality Movement tries to position itself for a new order

  • Vol 50 No 6
  •  20th March 2009

Khartoum fights back

President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir made a long and inflammatory speech at a 16 March ceremony in Khartoum's Green Square. The Sudan Armed Forces, security, militia and police swore an oath of allegiance to him as 'Commander of the mujahideen and the pr...

  • Vol 50 No 5
  •  6th March 2009

Omer the outlaw

The Islamist regime shows its true colours as the ICC issues the arrest warrant for President Omer el Beshir

  • Vol 50 No 4
  •  20th February 2009

Nice enough

Instead of going down in history as the man who prosecuted Slobodan Milosevic for genocide, Sir Geoffrey Nice may be remembered as the man who tried to save Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir from the same charges. In January, Sir Geoffrey, once lead prosecutor ...

  • Vol 50 No 2
  •  23rd January 2009

New politics, new threats

Three new developments will shape Sudan's politics this year: the International Criminal Court's (ICC) issue of an arrest warrant for President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir; the planned elections under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement; and the inauguratio...

  • Vol 50 No 2
  •  23rd January 2009

No longer at ease

In the last months of President George Walker Bush's reign, US officials pressed the Khartoum regime over Darfur and Abyei by telling leaders, 'If you think we're tough, wait till the Democrats come in.' It didn't work then but it looks like no idle threa...

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