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- Vol 50 No 2
- 23/01/2009
New politics, new threats
Three new developments will shape Sudan's politics this year: the International Criminal Court's (ICC) issue of an arrest warrant for President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir; the planned elections under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement; and the inauguratio...
- Vol 50 No 2
- 23/01/2009
No longer at ease
In the last months of President George Walker Bush's reign, US officials pressed the Khartoum regime over Darfur and Abyei by telling leaders, 'If you think we're tough, wait till the Democrats come in.' It didn't work then but it looks like no idle thr...
- Vol 50 No 2
- 23/01/2009
Bargaining with warlords
Southern Sudan is still run like a feudal state, with President Salva Kiir Mayardit appointing people from among competing factions and ethnic interest groups in a complex balancing act. Top jobs are handed out on grounds of seniority, military strengt...
- Vol 50 No 2
- 23/01/2009
Khartoum's bankers
Lloyds TSB, recently bailed out by the British government, has had to pay fines of US$350 million for breaking United States' sanctions on Sudan, Libya and Iran, following an investigation by the New York County District Attorney and the US Department of...
- Vol 49 No 25
- 12/12/2008
Here for the beer
The South African brewery giant SABMiller opened a new beer factory in Juba this week, the first plant in Sudan since President Jaafar Mohamed Nimeiri symbolically threw at least some of Khartoum’s highly popular supply of alcohol into the Nile to mark hi...
- Vol 49 No 22
- 31/10/2008
Pirates and tanks
The news that the arms onboard the hijacked MV Faina were destined for the Government of Southern Sudan – via Kenyan end-user certificates and covert transport – has damaged Nairobi-Khartoum relations (AC Vol 49 No 20) and may lead to the cancellatio...
- Vol 49 No 21
- 17/10/2008
Brothers reunited
Those who thought that the 1999 split in the National Islamic front, when Hassan Abdullah el Turabi was officially sidelined, would seriously change Khartoum’s Islamist regime might be surprised to see leaders from each faction appearing together at an in...
- Vol 49 No 21
- 17/10/2008
Khartoum's strategy
The threat of an indictment for war crimes of Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir by the International Criminal Court has not diminished the Khartoum regime’s willingness to sponsor wars inneighbouring states. Indeed,itmay want to use its sponso...
- Vol 49 No 20
- 03/10/2008
Arms and the boys
Somalia's pirates are busy guarding the 33 Ukrainian tanks and other equipment captured on the MV Faina on 25 September. United States' naval vessels surround the ship and the Russian navy is authorised by Somali authorities to use force to liberate ...
- Vol 49 No 19
- 19/09/2008
The Darfur dance
Khartoum's diplomats are lobbying hard at the UN to block an arrest warrant for President Omer for genocide and war crimes
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