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 18
  • 05/09/2008

The drones club

Iran is supplying Khartoum with military equipment for its attacks in Darfur, in clear breach of the United Nations arms embargo, Africa Confidential has learned. On 28 August, the Sudan Liberation Movement-Unity Command shot down an Iranian-made Ababi...

  • Vol 49 No 17
  • 22/08/2008

In the dock for the bombings

A US lawsuit claims that the Sudanese and Iranian regimes plotted the bombing of two East African US embassies in 1998

  • Vol 49 No 17
  • 22/08/2008

The grounds for complaint

Below are key quotes from the 5 August complaint filed in a US civil court against the Sudanese and Iranian governments: 'The Defendant, the Republic of the Sudan, acting through the Defendant, the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of the Sud...

  • Vol 49 No 16
  • 01/08/2008

Saving Omer

An international court accuses President Omer el Beshir but he has some unlikely defenders

  • Vol 49 No 16
  • 01/08/2008

Taking positions

There has been a strong international reaction to the ICC's application for an arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omer el Beshir for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. But who is supporting the ICC's move against the Sudanese re...

  • Vol 49 No 15
  • 18/07/2008

Abyei - a border that shapes the future

As the International Criminal Court laid charges of genocide against President Omer el Beshir on 14 July, Africa Confidential obtained a United Nations' internal report that blames the Khartoum regime for much of the death and destruction in Abyei in M...

  • Vol 49 No 15
  • 18/07/2008

'If you have a gun you attack everything in front of you'

The debate over the International Criminal Court's charges against President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir (see Pointer) has focused on the ICC, the fractious peace negotiations and the regime's capacity for revenge rather than on the crime of genocide ...

  • Vol 49 No 15
  • 18/07/2008

War crimes

Will Khartoum finally drop President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir, charged on 14 July with ten counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity? That is what Khartoum did to Hassan Abdullah el Turabi in 1999-2000 when it faced heavy foreign press...

  • Vol 49 No 14
  • 04/07/2008

Kony causes trouble again

The rebel chief Kony's refusal to make peace causes trouble between Uganda and South Sudan

  • Vol 49 No 12
  • 06/06/2008

The cracks spread

Rifts in the Unity Government become public but the Northern opposition again fails to seize its chance

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