Sudan

Sudan

Population: 42.3 million
GDP: $543000 million
Debt: $81.3% of GDP
Overview:

A pivotal year with local, parliamentary and presidential elections in April, ahead of the 2011 referendum on independence for Southern Sudan. The armed stalemate in Darfur and fresh fighting in the east look ominous.

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  • Vol 51 No 10
  • 14/05/2010

Books not bribes

The World Bank is looking for new printers following its decision to bar publishers Macmillan from all Bank contracts for six years. This follows the admission by a Macmillan subsidiary known as Macmillan Education that it had unsuccessfully tried to win ...

  • Vol 51 No 9
  • 30/04/2010

Stolen votes yield a hollow victory for Khartoum

Vote-fixing in an election lacking any credibility has galvanised opposition in the North and may undermine the ruling party

  • Vol 51 No 9
  • 30/04/2010

A good vote in Africa

Free, fair and good-humoured. They were organised and monitored entirely by Sudanese and their results were widely accepted as free and fair. Those were Sudan’s landmark elections of 1986, which brought in a civilian government in the wake of a popular...

  • Vol 51 No 9
  • 30/04/2010

The deals, the votes and the fraud

There was plenty of rigging and fixing of votes across the country but sometimes the best laid plans went awry.

  • Vol 51 No 8
  • 16/04/2010

An election victory that widens the North-South gap

Western governments accept the regime’s rigged victory in exchange for what they hope will be a Southern referendum

  • Vol 51 No 8
  • 16/04/2010

Election-rigging guide book

Interested governments may turn a deaf ear but the opposition is making sure no one, at home or abroad, can credibly claim the 2010 elections were free and fair. On 12 April, the doughty Paris-based Sudan Tribune listed the first day’s irregularities.

  • Vol 51 No 8
  • 16/04/2010

A moral dilemma

There was no election boycott in Darfur by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, Ibrahim Agboola Gambari told Jimmy Carter on 10 April. The United States’ ex-President then told South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki, head of the African Union (A...

  • Vol 51 No 7
  • 02/04/2010

As elections arrive, the opposition shuns Omer

Sudan is set to become the first country to elect an indicted war criminal as president. Yet the elections are deemed so unlikely to be free and fair that, as AC went to press, the focus was on the extent and effects of the opposition boycott. Oppositioni...

  • Vol 51 No 7
  • 02/04/2010

The most complex elections

The combination of one of the most elaborate and time-consuming electoral systems and mass illiteracy across most of the country virtually guarantees chaos in Sudan's elections on 11-13 April. Compounding such logistical problems is the political one o...

  • Vol 51 No 7
  • 02/04/2010

The many ways to win the elections

Independent analysts identify Khartoum's efforts to rig the polls and logistical difficulties (which the regime can exploit).

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