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Sudan

Population: 37 million
GNI: $29900 million
Debt: $11700 million
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President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir's National Congress will fight on several fronts: suppressing rebellions in Darfur and undermining the weak UN mission; in proxy wars with Chad and the Central African Republic; and keeping pressure on South Sudan.

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  • Vol 47 No 25
  • 15/12/2006

The Southern front reopens

Fighting between Khartoum's soldiers and the Juba government presages a new crisis in the South

  • Vol 47 No 25
  • 15/12/2006

Militias and the South

Successive regimes in Khartoum have sought local allies against the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), especially since the National Islamic Front seized power in 1989. The NIF's most effective weapon has been the South Sudan Defence Forces (SSDF),...

  • Vol 47 No 25
  • 15/12/2006

Khartoum's proxies

Like the Khartoum government's sponsorship of the Janjaweed in Darfur, its use of militias in the South has a political purpose: it wants instability in the South to block the holding of the referendum, or the creation of so much chaos and discontent t...

  • Vol 47 No 25
  • 15/12/2006

Trade-off

Growing tensions between Khartoum and the Government of Southern Sudan in Juba (see feature) may be linked to a new accommodation on the management of oil. Sudan is pumping over 500,000 barrels per day with a further 100,000 bpd under development. Acc...

  • Vol 47 No 24
  • 01/12/2006

Defining the peacekeepers

Four types of peacekeeping forces have been mooted for Darfur . . .

  • Vol 47 No 24
  • 01/12/2006

The Darfur deadline passes

As the death rate of Darfur villagers soars, so does the confidence of the regime killing them

  • Vol 47 No 22
  • 03/11/2006

Wars across borders

Khartoum is exporting its Darfur holocaust to Chad and sparking regional fires

  • Vol 47 No 22
  • 03/11/2006

The Dutch diversion

A diplomatic row follows the expulsion of the UN envoy and further delays the deployment of a protection force to Darfur

  • Vol 47 No 21
  • 20/10/2006

Signal from Saudi

An astonishing attack on Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir in the Saudi press signals a crack in Arab solidarity over Khartoum's policy on Darfur.

  • Vol 47 No 20
  • 06/10/2006

The West's weakness

Military options were proposed on 1 October in the Washington Post by ex-President Bill Clinton's Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Susan Rice and National Security Advisor Anthony Lake, plus another Sudan activist, Congressman Donald P...

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