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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 4
  •  19th February 2010

Quiet trips to DC

The National Congress Party (aka National Islamic Front) wants to stop the world challenging its planned April election victory. A quiet push last month on debt relief and the United States’ sanctions may not succeed this year but the diplomacy boosts the...

  • Vol 51 No 3
  •  5th February 2010

Southern leaders compete for a new state

There are fears that the thrice-delayed national elections, now due on 8 April, could trigger an escalation of fighting in Darfur and the South, given the probability that few will accept the results as free and fair. The Khartoum regime has failed to imp...

  • Vol 51 No 3
  •  5th February 2010

Three leaders who count in the South

Salva Kiir Mayardit, President, Government of South Sudan, Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon, GOSS Vice-President, and Paulino Matip Nhial, Lieutenant General, SPLA-SSDF.

  • Vol 51 No 1
  •  8th January 2010

Vote early, vote often

This year’s elections and constitutional negotiations will test the Islamist clique which has held power since the 1989 putsch

  • Vol 50 No 25
  •  18th December 2009

North and South protest against the NCP election plan

Demonstrators demand political reforms before the 2010 elections

  • Vol 50 No 23
  •  20th November 2009

UN investigators challenge Khartoum

A UN report says the Darfur war is far from over and Khartoum is the main protagonist and procurer of arms

  • Vol 50 No 21
  •  23rd October 2009

Washington unveils its new policy as tension rises throughout Sudan

Amid a spreading feeling at home and abroad that Sudan may be at a crossroads, the United States announced its long-postponed policy. This departs from the usual cautious diplomacy of interested governments by leaving the National Congress Party in no dou...

  • Vol 50 No 20
  •  8th October 2009

Opposition in search of unity

The Northern opposition and the SPLM combine to pressure the Khartoum government on elections and human rights

  • Vol 50 No 19
  •  25th September 2009

Hybrid justice

The African Union Panel of Experts is to propose the establishment of 'hybrid courts' - which would include both Sudanese and international judges - to try those accused of war crimes in Darfur, Africa Confidential has learned. The Panel has concluded th...

  • Vol 50 No 18
  •  11th September 2009

Khartoum pressures Southern Sudan over oil

Oil figures suggest that Khartoum is cheating the South of revenue and threatening the increasingly fragile peace

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