The National Islamic Front knows that, if it plays its cards right, the parameters set at Machakos will continue. Few now question the government's legitimacy; few now mention the Declaration of Principles that it signed up to in 1997 under the Inter-Gove...
I will not be absorbed for the second time in my life!' John Garang told parliamentarians and aid workers in Britain's Portcullis House on 3 June. The Sudan People's Liberation Army boss was referring to the absorption of Anya Nya rebels into the governme...
The banning of the Khartoum Monitor deprives southerners of a voice in the north at a crucial period in the Machakos talks. On 10 May, the newspaper, run by veteran journalists Nhial Bol Aken (who was gaoled) and Reuters and BBC correspondent Alfred Logun...
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights has given the National Islamic Front government a free hand to pursue its policy of human rights violations. By refusing to renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights for Sudan (first appointe...
A double tragedy of fighting and famine threatens drought-stricken Darfur (AC Vol 43 No 23). A major assault is expected by the National Islamic Front government which has declared it will no longer negotiate with the far western region's fledgling armed ...
The National Islamic Front government aims to persuade the West it holds the smoking gun on Iraq, we hear. To attack President Saddam Hussein, the United States and Britain desperately seek a substantive link between his secular Baathist regime and Al Qai...
Oil money is again exacerbating the war. A consortium operated by state-owned China National Petroleum Company has made a 'very significant' strike in Block 7 of east-central Sudan's Melut Basin, say industry sources. This will boost the Islamist governme...
The NIF has won over Europeans and Arabs but US patience is wearing thin
As the Machakos talks stumble on, the National Islamic Front government's month-old offensive in Western Upper Nile (WUN) has occasioned only 'deep concern' from the United States. Yet evidence is mounting that Khartoum systematically impedes humanitarian...
While obstructing the Machakos talks by refusing to discuss the north-south buffer zone and other key issues, the National Islamic Front (National Congress) government is boosting its military response to the opposition. It has shipped heavy weapons to th...
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