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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 9
  •  30th April 2010

A good vote in Africa

Free, fair and good-humoured. They were organised and monitored entirely by Sudanese and their results were widely accepted as free and fair. Those were Sudan’s landmark elections of 1986, which brought in a civilian government in the wake of a popular up...

  • Vol 51 No 9
  •  30th April 2010

The deals, the votes and the fraud

There was plenty of rigging and fixing of votes across the country but sometimes the best laid plans went awry.

  • Vol 51 No 8
  •  16th April 2010

An election victory that widens the North-South gap

Western governments accept the regime’s rigged victory in exchange for what they hope will be a Southern referendum

  • Vol 51 No 8
  •  16th April 2010

Election-rigging guide book

Interested governments may turn a deaf ear but the opposition is making sure no one, at home or abroad, can credibly claim the 2010 elections were free and fair. On 12 April, the doughty Paris-based Sudan Tribune listed the first day’s irregularities.

  • Vol 51 No 8
  •  16th April 2010

A moral dilemma

There was no election boycott in Darfur by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, Ibrahim Agboola Gambari told Jimmy Carter on 10 April. The United States’ ex-President then told South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki, head of the African Union (AU) Pane...

  • Vol 51 No 7
  •  2nd April 2010

As elections arrive, the opposition shuns Omer

Sudan is set to become the first country to elect an indicted war criminal as president. Yet the elections are deemed so unlikely to be free and fair that, as AC went to press, the focus was on the extent and effects of the opposition boycott. Oppositioni...

  • Vol 51 No 7
  •  2nd April 2010

The most complex elections

The combination of one of the most elaborate and time-consuming electoral systems and mass illiteracy across most of the country virtually guarantees chaos in Sudan's elections on 11-13 April. Compounding such logistical problems is the political one of t...

  • Vol 51 No 7
  •  2nd April 2010

The many ways to win the elections

Independent analysts identify Khartoum's efforts to rig the polls and logistical difficulties (which the regime can exploit).

  • Vol 51 No 6
  •  19th March 2010

Death of a Sudanese activist

British police are investigating whether the murder of Sudanese human rights activist Abdel Salam Hassan Abdel Salam in south London on the night of 12-13 March was political or purely criminal. Abdel Salam, 56, who was stabbed to death in a prolonged att...

  • Vol 51 No 5
  •  5th March 2010

Doubts over Darfur

Foreign governments welcome claims of a peace deal in Darfur but many Sudanese see it as another pre-election trick by Khartoum

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