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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 16
  •  6th August 2010

Under no circumstances

When Awad Ahmed el Jaz told a National Congress Party youth meeting on 1 August that the separation of the South 'cannot be allowed under any circumstances', it was no slip of the tongue. He is one of the NCP's key leaders. On 31 July, Presidential Securi...

  • Vol 51 No 15
  •  23rd July 2010

Khartoum's most wanted

The first test for the International Criminal Court's 12 July arrest warrant for genocide against President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir is his visit to Ndjamena this week. Chad ratified its ICC membership in 2006 and is legally bound to arrest him. Before...

  • Vol 51 No 15
  •  23rd July 2010

Secret talks

Egypt has quietly accepted that Southern Sudanese may choose independence in January's referendum in return for assurances that the Juba government will not abandon the 1959 Nile Waters Agreement, Africa Confidential understands.

  • Vol 51 No 13
  •  25th June 2010

Crisis cabinets

The new teams in Khartoum and Juba will face a tense six months before the referendum – and the threat of a war that some want and many expect

  • Vol 51 No 13
  •  25th June 2010

The international agenda

The most dramatic military-security appointment is of Ali Ahmed Kurti as full Foreign Affairs Minister (he was previously State Minister). He is best known for establishing the Popular Defence Forces, the partly press-ganged but increasingly volunteer Isl...

  • Vol 51 No 12
  •  11th June 2010

Flash point Southern Kordofan

Amid complaints of Khartoum’s meddling and the SPLM’s betrayal, how South Kordofan reacts will be critical to the referenda in January

  • Vol 51 No 12
  •  11th June 2010

Militias of the new age

In the seven short months before January’s independence referendum, militias in the South’s oil-producing areas – Upper Nile, Jonglei and Unity states – will be one of the main challenges facing the Government of South Sudan. Many believe the warlords run...

  • Vol 51 No 12
  •  11th June 2010

Oily alliances

A new oil consortium operating in Darfur brings together private Arab, Gabonese and Libyan state interests and companies close to Khartoum’s ruling National Congress Party. It also raises serious questions about conflicts of interest among would-be mediat...

  • Vol 51 No 10
  •  14th May 2010

Books not bribes

The World Bank is looking for new printers following its decision to bar publishers Macmillan from all Bank contracts for six years. This follows the admission by a Macmillan subsidiary known as Macmillan Education that it had unsuccessfully tried to win ...

  • Vol 51 No 9
  •  30th April 2010

Stolen votes yield a hollow victory for Khartoum

Vote-fixing in an election lacking any credibility has galvanised opposition in the North and may undermine the ruling party

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