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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 2
  •  23rd January 2009

Bargaining with warlords

Southern Sudan is still run like a feudal state, with President Salva Kiir Mayardit appointing people from among competing factions and ethnic interest groups in a complex balancing act. Top jobs are handed out on grounds of seniority, military strength a...

  • Vol 50 No 2
  •  23rd January 2009

Khartoum's bankers

Lloyds TSB, recently bailed out by the British government, has had to pay fines of US$350 million for breaking United States' sanctions on Sudan, Libya and Iran, following an investigation by the New York County District Attorney and the US Department of ...

  • Vol 49 No 25
  •  12th December 2008

Here for the beer

The South African brewery giant SABMiller opened a new beer factory in Juba this week, the first plant in Sudan since President Jaafar Mohamed Nimeiri symbolically threw at least some of Khartoum’s highly popular supply of alcohol into the Nile to mark hi...

  • Vol 49 No 22
  •  31st October 2008

Pirates and tanks

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 cancellation of...

  • Vol 49 No 21
  •  17th October 2008

Brothers reunited

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...

  • Vol 49 No 21
  •  17th October 2008

Khartoum's strategy

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...

  • Vol 49 No 20
  •  3rd October 2008

Arms and the boys

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 the ...

  • Vol 49 No 19
  •  19th September 2008

The Darfur dance

Khartoum's diplomats are lobbying hard at the UN to block an arrest warrant for President Omer for genocide and war crimes

  • Vol 49 No 18
  •  5th September 2008

The drones club

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 Ababil-1...

  • Vol 49 No 17
  •  22nd August 2008

In the dock for the bombings

A US lawsuit claims that the Sudanese and Iranian regimes plotted the bombing of two East African US embassies in 1998

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