- Vol 53 No 3
- 3rd February 2012
Whatever the outcome of the oil talks between the Khartoum and Juba governments, the current crisis has focused thinking on southward leading pipelines. Industry and diplomatic opinion is divided but there is a growing view that at least one line is comme...
- Vol 53 No 2
- 20th January 2012
A letter to the National Congress Party has emerged this week from some 1,000 Islamist activists, including Salafists, secretly egged on by Hassan el Turabi, we hear. It accuses the NCP of betraying the Islamist movement and (after 22 years) distances the...
- Vol 53 No 1
- 6th January 2012
The main question this year is how far Khartoum will pursue militarism to compensate for its loss of the South
- Vol 52 No 23
- 18th November 2011
As the Sudan Revolutionary Front is launched, the regime tries to parry opposition in the North by bombing South Sudan
- Vol 52 No 21
- 21st October 2011
Political and military oppositionists coordinate their campaigns as economic pressures mount on Khartoum
- Vol 52 No 21
- 21st October 2011
The impetus for the opposition’s new determination comes from the military success of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states. The SPLA-N says it holds most of South Kordofan and four of Blue Nile’s six counties....
- Vol 52 No 21
- 21st October 2011
Western governments seem unimpressed by the efforts of Foreign Minister Arthur Peter Mutharika, brother of President Bingu wa Mutharika, to persuade them to restore aid to Malawi. Concern escalated sharply after police shot dead 19 adults and children at ...
- Vol 52 No 19
- 23rd September 2011
One leaked United States cable must have pleased a Khartoum regime eager toescape the US State Sponsors of Terrorism list. A ‘confidential’ note from the Khartoum Embassy of 26 December 2006, released by WikiLeaks this month, says Sudan keeps confidential...
- Vol 52 No 18
- 9th September 2011
Just as Mozambique’s Resistência Nacional Moçambicana threatens to return to violence, the man who championed it at the height of its atrocities has surfaced in papers found in the offices in Libya of Moammar el Gadaffi’s fallen Prime Minister, El Baghdad...
- Vol 52 No 17
- 26th August 2011
The ruling National Congress Party warmly congratulated Libyans on ‘their victory against their long-term ruler’, recognising the Transitional National Council on 23 August. Yet, as South Sudan struggles, over six weeks after Independence, to form a new ...