NATO had offered to provide 'substantial support' to the African Union in Darfur under new arrangements to strengthen its peacekeeping operation there, said a communiqué following discussions by African Union Chairman Alpha Oumar Konaré and British Prime ...
If it doesn't trigger the dispatch of a protection force, the
Darfur accord will have failed
More is emerging about the state of health of Intelligence Director General Salah Abdullah 'Gosh', who visited Britain in March for medical reasons and talks with the government. We hear that Salah had a heart attack in Khartoum after a confrontation wit...
Since 2003, Paris has both backed President Idriss Déby and tried to prevent its allies discussing Chad. This has weakened Chad's unarmed opposition, which has anyway been manipulated by the regime and by Sudan.
We hear that at high-level diplomatic meetings in London, Paris and Washington in December 2005, intelligence officers from Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, the United States' Central Intelligence Agency and France's Direction Générale...
After three years of mass murder in Darfur, the West is in
a hurry for a peace accord to enable UN troops to deploy
Darfur's troubles are fuelled by violence flowing both ways
across the Chadian border, some of it orchestrated by the Sudanese
regime. Meanwhile, President Idriss Déby Itno clings
to power only by grace of armed men from his Zakawa (Zaghawa)
pe...
Who brought Sudan's security boss, Salah Abdullah 'Gosh',
to London last week? He is number two on the United Nations Panel
of Experts' list of 'individuals identified' for sanction over
Darfur war crimes (AC Vol 47 No 5). He flew in and, on 9 March,
...
How did the United Nations Panel of Experts on Sudan pick its
candidates for sanctions over Darfur war crimes? The confidential
annex of 22 names, leaked last week, may not entirely match the
original recommendations, we hear.
Just as Western governments begin to note the regime's lack
of financial transparency, the ruling National Islamic Front-National
Congress has another bonanza. On 6 February, Kuwait-based
Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) paid a staggering US$1.3...
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