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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 51 No 22
  •  5th November 2010

The boom in Juba and its consequences

Talk of war might be in the air but Juba is booming. Building sites are around every corner of South Sudan’s capital and so are foreign delegations and contract-wielding business people. Expecting independence next year, the South is marketing itself as a...

  • Vol 51 No 22
  •  5th November 2010

Jarch Capital has friends in the South

Last year, in Africa’s biggest land deal, Jarch Capital leased 400,000 hectares in Mayom County, Unity State, from one-time warlord Paulino Matiep Nhial’s family (AC Vol 50 No 2). Jarch is chaired by one-time Wall Street Banker Philippe M. Heilberg, is ba...

  • Vol 51 No 22
  •  5th November 2010

Khartoum’s new export trade

The prospect of losing most of its oil income if the South becomes independent next year has galvanised the National Congress Party. As the Sudanese pound hurtles downwards against the US dollar and as, unusually, a wave of strikes hits the capital, top N...

  • Vol 51 No 21
  •  22nd October 2010

Northern opposition faces increasing duress

Khartoum plays the national unity card to crack down on its many opponents in the North as a new movement is launched

  • Vol 51 No 20
  •  8th October 2010

A New York divorce

Positions are hardening in both Washington and Khartoum in the lead up to the referenda in the South and Abyei, due in January

  • Vol 51 No 19
  •  24th September 2010

A new strategy for Darfur

With all eyes on the South and preparations for January’s referendum, Khartoum has stepped up its attacks in Darfur

  • Vol 51 No 18
  •  10th September 2010

A suspect at the parade

In one fell swoop, the Khartoum government strengthens President Omer el Beshir and undermines the Nairobi government’s new constitution

  • Vol 51 No 18
  •  10th September 2010

Wetangula – MP for Khartoum North

Was the invitation to Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir for the promulgation of Kenya’s new constitution another attempt by the securocracy to frustrate a new dispensation? It certainly delayed the rehabilitation of Kenya’s battered internatio...

  • Vol 51 No 17
  •  27th August 2010

No referee for the referenda

Khartoum is determined to block January’s referenda; the South is determined to hold them

  • Vol 51 No 17
  •  27th August 2010

Strategy of sabotage

The National Congress Party employs a variety of tactics to sabotage January’s referenda. Because a 60% quorum (of a still undefined electorate) is needed and a 51% vote for or against, every NCP move counts.

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