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...
The United Nations' Report on the Situation of Human Rights
in Darfur of 8 June sets targets and deadlines with which it says
the Sudanese regime should comply. Secondly, it lays the overwhelming
responsibility for abuses on Khartoum. However, the UN S...
If they do little else, United States' sanctions on Sudan,
strengthened on 29 May, draw attention to the scope for economic
pressure on the Islamist regime.
A weak hybrid force of African Union and United Nations troops
with little or no reconnaissance or intelligence capacity looks
the most probable outcome of the negotiations on a Darfur protection
force. It may not even amount to the 11,000-strong force...
An Amnesty report claims that Russia and China are supplying
arms to Sudan for use against Darfur civilians
As British Premier Tony Blair calls for a 'no fly zone'
against the Sudanese regime, his government is flying victims
of that regime's murderous policy in Darfur back to Khartoum.
It claims that they will be safe. And as Blair blames Khartoum
for the ...
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