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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 11
  •  23rd May 2008

Abyei devastated

Heavy fighting between the Sudan Armed Forces and the SPLA points to more conflict ahead

  • Vol 49 No 10
  •  9th May 2008

Oddly normal II

The rapprochement between Sudan and the United States continues apace but US Special Envoy Richard Williamson has warned that he does not foresee full 'normalisation' during his tenure and that stronger sanctions are still possible (AC Vol 49 No 9). This ...

  • Vol 49 No 9
  •  25th April 2008

Oddly normal

Spies and diplomats are secretly negotiating the lifting of all US sanctions on Khartoum

  • Vol 49 No 9
  •  25th April 2008

Number crunching

The two-week national census, which began on 22 April, will not provide accurate information on the size of the population but it will strengthen the regime’s grip on that population. It has given the ruling National Congress (aka National Islamic Front) ...

  • Vol 49 No 8
  •  11th April 2008

The real dividing line

Oil, ideology and a bitter history worsen the dispute over where to draw the North-South border

  • Vol 49 No 8
  •  11th April 2008

The main points of the Abyei Protocol

The then First Vice-President, Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, and the late Sudan People's Liberation Movement Chairman, Colonel John Garang de Mabior, signed the Principles of Agreement on Abyei on 26 May 2004 in Naivasha, Kenya. It begins, 'Abyei is a bridge be...

  • Vol 49 No 7
  •  28th March 2008

Hotel Hellacious

A public relations jamboree in Khartoum on 10-13 March tried to persuade European politicians and businesses that they are missing out on billions of petrodollars because of Western hostility to President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's regime. The implicit...

  • Vol 49 No 5
  •  29th February 2008

Lifting the bamboo curtain

Beijing is changing its policy on Khartoum but on its own terms

  • Vol 49 No 5
  •  29th February 2008

Selective divestment

Britain’s Conservative Party, which has been campaigning against the Sudan government’s Darfur policy, faces charges of hypocrisy after it accepted more than US$800,000 in contributions from a United States’ mutual fund with massive indirect investments i...

  • Vol 49 No 2
  •  16th January 2008

The centre versus the rest

El Sadig el Sideeg el Mahdi launched his bid to return to power, only to be shouted down by hundreds of Sudanese who had flocked to listen

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