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 ...
Western troop contributors fall behind schedule while Khartoum
expels Western diplomats and aid workers
Khartoum's schemings, political rows and logistical shortages
are undermining the Darfur peacekeeping force
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.
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...
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 ...
The Juba government is preparing a more militant response
to Khartoum's political and economic obstructionism
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.
International pressure has at last forced Khartoum to agree to
a UN-backed protection force in Darfur but the struggle won't
stop there
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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