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 48 No 19
  • 21/09/2007

Southern warning

Negotiations between Khartoum and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army in 2003-05 diverted attention from Khartoum’s mass murder and ethnic cleansing in Darfur; now the Islamist regime is exploiting the reverse effect – actively unravelling the ...

  • Vol 48 No 18
  • 07/09/2007

Darfur deadlines

Western troop contributors fall behind schedule while Khartoum expels Western diplomats and aid workers

  • Vol 48 No 17
  • 24/08/2007

Mission improbable

Khartoum's schemings, political rows and logistical shortages are undermining the Darfur peacekeeping force

  • Vol 48 No 17
  • 24/08/2007

Half and half

The United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) is half of the process; the other half involves negotiations between rebels and regime. This requires a common platform for the Darfur factions which Khartoum has worked hard to divide.

  • Vol 48 No 17
  • 24/08/2007

Who's Who in the war and peace talks

The Sudan Liberation Movement faction of Abdel Wahed Mohamed Ahmed el Nur boycotted this month's Arusha talks. This matters because it is the second largest military group and though his links to the over two million internally displaced people are of...

  • Vol 48 No 17
  • 24/08/2007

Smokescreen

Under growing international pressure, Khartoum's National Congress (aka National Islamic Front) is uncovering 'internal plots'. On 14 July, it arrested Umma Party renegade and former minister Mubarek Abdullahi el Fadl el Mahdi, key Democratic Unionist ...

  • Vol 48 No 15
  • 20/07/2007

Salva's shuffle

The Juba government is preparing a more militant response to Khartoum's political and economic obstructionism

  • Vol 48 No 15
  • 20/07/2007

WHITE NILE SEES RED IN THE SOUTH

Now that Britain's White Nile Limited has been forced out of Sudan, the biggest question for its founders, former England cricketer Phillipe Edmonds and his partner Andrew Groves, is how much compensation they can secure.

  • Vol 48 No 13
  • 22/06/2007

At the barrel of a gun

International pressure has at last forced Khartoum to agree to a UN-backed protection force in Darfur but the struggle won't stop there

  • Vol 48 No 13
  • 22/06/2007

INTELLIGENT DESIGN

Claims that Sudan gives the United States intelligence on Al Qaida in Somalia and Iraq - and Khartoum's rapid denial - have revived important questions. Does this 'intelligence cooperation' explain the lack of Western will to tackle Khartoum's four ye...

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