Sudan

Sudan

Population: 33.5 mn.
GDP: 51.6 bn.
Debt: 21.8 bn.
Overview:

The regime's survival will be the central issue. The New Dawn Charter opposition alliance will gain ground. Khartoum will suppress freedom and war will continue. Relations with Juba will remain poor with no breakthrough on Abyei.

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  • Vol 52 No 14
  •  8th July 2011

Abyei in limbo

Ethiopia’s peacekeepers will face heavy scrutiny as Khartoum and Juba differ over Abyei and the still undemarcated border

  • Vol 52 No 14
  •  8th July 2011

Opposition hits the Embassy

Southern Independence is already affecting Northern Sudan. In an unprecedented scuffle with oppositionists inside the London Embassy, Presidential Assistant Nafi’e Ali Nafi’e was hit on the head by a chair on 6 July as Presidential Advisor Mustafa Osman I...

  • Vol 52 No 13
  •  24th June 2011

Blood and oil

Khartoum has intensified its war in central Sudan to crush its Nuba opponents and keep control of oil exports before partition

  • Vol 52 No 12
  •  10th June 2011

Edging towards the brink

Fears are rising at home and abroad that Khartoum’s attacks could take the South back to war as Independence dawns

  • Vol 52 No 12
  •  10th June 2011

‘Fear and... fiction from Clooney’

Sudanese ministers are not used to being chased by protestors. Yet this is how Khartoum’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Ahmed Kurti left London’s sedate St. James’s Square on 6 June, his limousine pursued by some of the small band of demonstrators, from...

  • Vol 52 No 12
  •  10th June 2011

Khartoum’s debt threat

The Khartoum regime will face growing financial pressure after the formal split with the South on 9 July. That is partly why its Finance Minister, Ali Mahmoud Abdel Rasul, chose to step up its appeal for debt relief at the annual meeting of the African De...

  • Vol 52 No 11
  •  27th May 2011

Fighting for Abyei

Bombing and looting on the North-South border this week may undermine Sudan’s formal partition in July

  • Vol 52 No 11
  •  27th May 2011

Long memories in Abyei

1820: Official start of Southern liberation struggle, as just proclaimed by Government of South Sudan (GOSS); shows how important history is in Sudan

  • Vol 52 No 11
  •  27th May 2011

Shaky Guelleh snubs ICC

In the face of growing internal opposition to his arbitrary rule and stolen elections, President Ismail Omar Guelleh has been strengthening relations with Sudan (AC Vol 52 No 7). He welcomed President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir to Djibouti on 8 May for t...

  • Vol 52 No 10
  •  13th May 2011

Indicted war criminal fights election

Khartoum’s ruling party tries to hold on to its base in Kordofan, a springboard for operations in Abyei and the South

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