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Sudan

Population: 37 million
GNI: $29900 million
Debt: $11700 million
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President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's National Congress will fight on several fronts: suppressing rebellions in Darfur and undermining the weak UN mission; in proxy wars with Chad and the Central African Republic; and keeping pressure on South Sudan.

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  • Vol 45 No 19
  • 24/09/2004

Spinning on the edge

As Western governments fumble for a policy, the NIF keeps up the dissembling

  • Vol 45 No 19
  • 24/09/2004

Good neighbours, bad neighbours

Chad lives precariously, even without the Darfur crisis on its eastern border (AC Vol 45 No 18). That disaster has turned President Idriss Déby against Khartoum, as he showed during July's visit by French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier. He has...

  • Vol 45 No 18
  • 10/09/2004

Forty days

The United Nations Security Council looks set to fail another critical test: whether it has the will to protect civilians in Darfur from being slaughtered by their own government (AC Vol 45 No 17). Forty days after the Council gave Sudan's National Is...

  • Vol 45 No 17
  • 27/08/2004

Darfur's turning point

Without international peacekeepers the massacres will continue

  • Vol 45 No 16
  • 06/08/2004

Fighting the foreign front

The Darfur massacres have finally put the NIF government back on the international watchlist - but it believes it can evade more serious sanctions

  • Vol 45 No 16
  • 06/08/2004

Deaths mount, time passes

Diplomatic failures are hampering efforts to hold the militias and their masters to account

  • Vol 45 No 15
  • 21/07/2004

The wrong planes

With a deft sense of timing, Russia's MiG aircraft company has announced that is about to complete the supply of 12 MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters to Sudan.

  • Vol 45 No 14
  • 09/07/2004

Smiles and shadows

With perhaps 1,000 people now dying every day in Darfur, Khartoum is still defying even the mild demands made last week by Colin Powell and Kofi Annan. The United States Secretary of State and the United Nations Secretary General (in close touch for week...

  • Vol 45 No 13
  • 25/06/2004

Genocide watch

As United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is taking the heat for UN inaction on the Darfur genocide, Washington is under mounting pressure to act. Worried about 'another Rwanda' on his watch, United States Secretary of State Colin Powell has warned o...

  • Vol 45 No 12
  • 11/06/2004

Peace without honour

The Khartoum government's genocide in Darfur overshadows the North-South peace deal

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