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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 52 No 10
  •  13th May 2011

Indicted war criminal fights election

Khartoum’s ruling party tries to hold on to its base in Kordofan, a springboard for operations in Abyei and the South

  • Vol 52 No 10
  •  13th May 2011

Usama’s quiet friends in Khartoum

The May Day killing of Usama bin Laden passed virtually unmentioned by a National Congress Party government that worked hand-in-glove with him when he lived in Sudan in 1991-95. The Speaker of the NCP-dominated National Assembly, Ahmed Ibrahim el Tahir, c...

  • Vol 52 No 9
  •  29th April 2011

Gosh returns to the shadows

The 26 April dismissal of Lieutenant General Salah Abdullah Mohamed ‘Gosh’ as Presidential Security Advisor has raised hopes in Sudan of a split in the National Congress Party. The NCP (aka National Islamic Front) denied an ‘internal rift’: Salah Gos...

  • Vol 52 No 8
  •  15th April 2011

Hosting Hamas

Khartoum’s hopes of removal from the United States’ state sponsors of terrorism list took a knock on 5 April when Israel bombed a vehicle near Port Sudan, killing two. Independent Palestinian news agency Ma’an said the target was Abdel Lateef al Ashqar, c...

  • Vol 52 No 7
  •  1st April 2011

The scramble for the South

A spate of secret and exploitative land deals may cause instability and more economic hardship in the new state

  • Vol 52 No 7
  •  1st April 2011

Mr. Smile and the militias

After years of regime denials, Presidential Advisor Mustafa Osman Ismail effectively admitted this week that the National Congress Party (NCP) arms militias in Southern Sudan. ‘We cannot tolerate that the South started to host Darfur rebels,’ he told an o...

  • Vol 52 No 7
  •  1st April 2011

Some land lease agreements

Management/Leac for Agriculture and Investment: The most controversial deal in South Sudan is a the 400,000-hectare joint venture in Mayom County, Unity State, of United States’ firm Jarch Management, registered in the British Virgin Islands and chaired ...

  • Vol 52 No 6
  •  18th March 2011

Questions on terror

Just as the United States was preparing to remove the Sudan regime from its State Sponsors of Terrorism (SST) list, Khartoum has a hosted a conference of international Islamists, including some the USA lists as ‘terrorist’. It hosted the eighth annual...

  • Vol 52 No 5
  •  4th March 2011

Democracy heads south

Political tactics or public relations? The announcement of President Omer’s exit points to jitters in the ruling National Congress Party

  • Vol 52 No 4
  •  18th February 2011

Militia massacres

The death of perhaps 200 people this month, mainly civilian returnees, in attacks in Jonglei State, Southern Sudan, show the havoc that one militia can wreak. This militia is led by Lieutenant General George Athor Deng who commands, according to the Sudan...

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