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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 49 No 17
  •  22nd August 2008

The grounds for complaint

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 Sudan, e...

  • Vol 49 No 16
  •  1st August 2008

Saving Omer

An international court accuses President Omer el Beshir but he has some unlikely defenders

  • Vol 49 No 16
  •  1st August 2008

Taking positions

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...

  • Vol 49 No 15
  •  18th July 2008

Abyei - a border that shapes the future

As the International Criminal Court laid charges of genocide against President Omer el Beshir on 14 July, Africa Confidential obtained a United Nations' internal report that blames the Khartoum regime for much of the death and destruction in Abyei in M...

  • Vol 49 No 15
  •  18th July 2008

'If you have a gun you attack everything in front of you'

The debate over the International Criminal Court's charges against President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir (see Pointer) has focused on the ICC, the fractious peace negotiations and the regime's capacity for revenge rather than on the crime of genocide with...

  • Vol 49 No 15
  •  18th July 2008

War crimes

Will Khartoum finally drop President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir, charged on 14 July with ten counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity? That is what Khartoum did to Hassan Abdullah el Turabi in 1999-2000 when it faced heavy foreign press...

  • Vol 49 No 14
  •  4th July 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
  •  6th June 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
  •  23rd May 2008

Battle of Omdurman

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

  • Vol 49 No 11
  •  23rd May 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 Darfu...

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