Sudan

Sudan

Population: 37 million
GNI: $29900 million
Debt: $11700 million
Overview:

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 49 No 7
  • 28/03/2008

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 impl...

  • Vol 49 No 5
  • 29/02/2008

Lifting the bamboo curtain

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

  • Vol 49 No 5
  • 29/02/2008

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
  • 16/01/2008

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

  • Vol 49 No 2
  • 16/01/2008

Looking for a leader

The Sudan People's Liberation Movement has been unable to find a Nuba leader of the stature of the founder of the Nuba rebellion, the late Yusif Kuwa Mekki.

  • Vol 48 No 24
  • 30/11/2007

The wrong report

Kenya and the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) are suppressing debate about increasing tension between Khartoum and the Government of Southern Sudan, and the resilience of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). Some diplomats ...

  • Vol 48 No 23
  • 16/11/2007

Animated suspension

With the Sudan People's Liberation Movement still suspending its participation in the Government of National Unity in Khartoum, the semi-autonomous Government of Southern Sudan is increasingly acting like the sovereign state it aspires to be. GOSS Pre...

  • Vol 48 No 22
  • 02/11/2007

Raiding the camps

While Khartoum’s delegates attend the peace talks, its armed forces move in on Darfur’s displaced peoples’ camps

  • Vol 48 No 22
  • 02/11/2007

In loco parentis

The trial of nine French and seven Spanish citizens accused of abducting 103 children from the Chad/Sudan border region on 25 October will damage France’s relationship with Chad and prove a useful diplomatic tool for President Idriss Dé...

  • Vol 48 No 21
  • 19/10/2007

Salva and the Salvation regime

Southern anger at Khartoum’s violation of the 2005 peace accord explodes as the regime prepares for talks on Darfur

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