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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 3
  •  4th February 2011

Through the looking glass

There are growing concerns about the two million Southerners living in the north after last month's vote for separation

  • Vol 52 No 3
  •  4th February 2011

Militia attacks on the border

Brutal attacks last month by armed militias on convoys of Southern Sudanese returning from the North show the security crisis in the borderlands and the danger of war over Abyei (AC Vol 52 No 2). The attacks began in Southern Kordofan State, north of A...

  • Vol 52 No 2
  •  21st January 2011

Birth of a nation

After the jubilation of the referendum vote, six months of tough negotiation and rough politics will lead up to the birth of independent Southern Sudan

  • Vol 52 No 2
  •  21st January 2011

The Tunis effect

‘Tunus, Tunus fis Sudan!’ (‘Tunis, Tunis in Sudan!’) shouted demonstrators outside Sudan’s London Embassy on 16 January. They were few but the protest is still a landmark. Several who happily talked to a journalist from the BBC ignored one from the Voice ...

  • Vol 52 No 2
  •  21st January 2011

The Abyei crucible

As Southern Sudan celebrates, neighbouring Abyei is a war zone. Clashes began on 7 January between a Northern Missiriya militia and well trained Southern commandos wearing police uniforms. Fighting escalated for two days at a police post at Maker Abyior, ...

  • Vol 52 No 1
  •  7th January 2011

Freedom – North and South

As Southerners vote to secede from the North, some Northern politicians see a chance to undermine the NCP regime in Khartoum

  • Vol 52 No 1
  •  7th January 2011

Careful what you wear

After a film of a woman screaming in pain as Khartoum policemen whipped her for wearing trousers had gone around the world on the internet, the Government of Southern Sudan was quick to rein in its police who were beating ‘immodestly’ dressed females.Thes...

  • Vol 51 No 25
  •  17th December 2010

The bombing of Kiir Adem

Khartoum’s deadly bombardment of a border village shows growing desperation at the prospects of Southern succession next year

  • Vol 51 No 24
  •  3rd December 2010

Abyei's protocol problems

Abyei is still waiting, while Southerners register for their own referendum

  • Vol 51 No 23
  •  19th November 2010

Abyei waits

Khartoum fights its corner over the Abyei referendum and outflanks the SPLM and the United States

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