Sudan

Sudan

Population: 42.3 million
GDP: $543000 million
Debt: $81.3% of GDP
Overview:

A pivotal year with local, parliamentary and presidential elections in April, ahead of the 2011 referendum on independence for Southern Sudan. The armed stalemate in Darfur and fresh fighting in the east look ominous.

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  • Vol 49 No 2
  • 16/01/2008

The centre versus the rest

El Sadig el Sideeg el Mahdi launched his bid to return to power, only to be shouted down by hundreds of Sudanese who had flocked to listen

  • Vol 49 No 2
  • 16/01/2008

Looking for a leader

The Sudan People's Liberation Movement has been unable to find a Nuba leader of the stature of the founder of the Nuba rebellion, the late Yusif Kuwa Mekki.

  • Vol 48 No 24
  • 30/11/2007

The wrong report

Kenya and the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) are suppressing debate about increasing tension between Khartoum and the Government of Southern Sudan, and the resilience of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). Some diplomats ...

  • Vol 48 No 23
  • 16/11/2007

Animated suspension

With the Sudan People's Liberation Movement still suspending its participation in the Government of National Unity in Khartoum, the semi-autonomous Government of Southern Sudan is increasingly acting like the sovereign state it aspires to be. GOSS Pre...

  • Vol 48 No 22
  • 02/11/2007

Raiding the camps

While Khartoum’s delegates attend the peace talks, its armed forces move in on Darfur’s displaced peoples’ camps

  • Vol 48 No 22
  • 02/11/2007

In loco parentis

The trial of nine French and seven Spanish citizens accused of abducting 103 children from the Chad/Sudan border region on 25 October will damage France’s relationship with Chad and prove a useful diplomatic tool for President Idriss Dé...

  • Vol 48 No 21
  • 19/10/2007

Salva and the Salvation regime

Southern anger at Khartoum’s violation of the 2005 peace accord explodes as the regime prepares for talks on Darfur

  • Vol 48 No 21
  • 19/10/2007

Comprehensively breached

The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement withdrawal from the Government of National Unity (GNU) on 11 October followed months of warnings by the SPLM that the National Congress was breaking the the key terms of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (AC Vol...

  • Vol 48 No 20
  • 05/10/2007

Wrong number again

Karim Wade, the son of President Abdoulaye Wade, is the subject of complaints about the award of Senegal's third mobile phone licence to Sudatel, whose closest competitor, Celtel (owned by Zain of Kuwait) offered US$210 million, outbidding Sudatel by ...

  • Vol 48 No 19
  • 21/09/2007

Southern warning

Negotiations between Khartoum and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army in 2003-05 diverted attention from Khartoum’s mass murder and ethnic cleansing in Darfur; now the Islamist regime is exploiting the reverse effect – actively unravelling the ...

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