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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 50 No 18
  •  11th September 2009

Khartoum and Beijing disagree

There are mismatches between Khartoum's oil figures and those of the CNPC

  • Vol 50 No 17
  •  28th August 2009

A return ticket for security chief Salah Gosh

The 13 August move of Lieutenant General Salah Abdullah Mohamed 'Gosh' from Director of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) to Presidential Security Advisor comes at a critical time for the National Congress Party (aka National Islam...

  • Vol 50 No 17
  •  28th August 2009

An American road to Khartoum

The road to Sudan is littered with the United States' special envoys and the most criticised, Scott Gration, is determined not to join the list of those who failed to persuade the Sudan government to make peace. He may find it easier to convince the rebel...

  • Vol 50 No 15
  •  24th July 2009

International justice and its pitfalls

The current array of international tribunals has its roots in the 1990s. With the Cold War over, a spate of atrocious wars broke out in areas that no longer fell under the control or influence of one or another superpower. The 1994 genocide in Rwanda expo...

  • Vol 50 No 15
  •  24th July 2009

Abyei arbitrage

The Permanent Court of Arbitration's 22 July ruling, which redrew the boundaries of the disputed Abyei area, affirmed that all the area's major oil fields and the Nile oil pipeline would remain under the control of the Khartoum government. It is also a po...

  • Vol 50 No 13
  •  26th June 2009

Coup anniversary – 20 years of Islamist rule

As the NCP/NIF celebrates 20 years in power, the 'democratic transformation' stipulated by the CPA looks optimistic

  • Vol 50 No 13
  •  26th June 2009

'Selling the South down the river'

This week's meeting in Washington of the two signatories to the 2005 CPA is unprecedented. Both the National Congress Party (aka National Islamic Front) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army expect to gain traction: the SPLM/A because it has fri...

  • Vol 50 No 13
  •  26th June 2009

The coup-making government lives on

Hassan Abdullah el Turabi may watch mainly from the wings but the party he nurtured lives on, albeit renamed. The core group of his National Islamic Front is still largely intact since taking power in the 1989 coup. The group works on a strictly need-to-k...

  • Vol 50 No 11
  •  29th May 2009

Who's counting?

When Southern Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit said this month that he was 'unhappy and unsatisfied' with the census results, he was pointing to the next major clash between his Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the National Congress Party (aka ...

  • Vol 50 No 10
  •  15th May 2009

Open sesame

In diplomatic bartering this week, Khartoum offered limited access in Darfur to some affiliates of the 13 Western aid agencies it expelled on 4 March. Yet, at the same time, it has blocked over 350 Darfur civil society delegates from attending a peace con...

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