Vol 53 No 18 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN Politics over oil 7th September 2012 Another round of talks may stave off hostilities but is unlikely to yield a credible border security agreement by the 22 September deadline Much hard negotiating lies ahead between Juba and Khartoum after talks restarted on 4 September, following a month’s delay for the funeral of Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi and the...
Vol 53 No 16 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN The anti-sanctions race 3rd August 2012 Negotiations are likely to drag on, despite UN efforts to pressure both Juba and Khartoum and the threat of a return to all-out war As the 2 August deadline imposed by the United Nations Security Council loomed, Khartoum and Juba vied to be seen as the least obstructive government at their talks in Ethiopia. T...
Vol 53 No 16 | SUDAN Sudan under protest 3rd August 2012 The killing of several student demonstrators in Nyala, the South Darfur capital, on 31 July has given Sudan's opposition its martyrs. That was what Khartoum had wanted to avoid. Re...
Vol 53 No 14 | SUDAN Protestors’ pressure mounts 6th July 2012 The National Congress Party spent the 23rd anniversary of the 30 June coup, which brought it to power as the National Islamic Front, suppressing public protests. Its iron grip i...
Vol 53 No 13 | SUDAN No horizon 22nd June 2012 Though this week’s protests in the capital were ostensibly against austerity measures, demonstrators were calling for the government’s overthrow: ‘Khartoum rise up, rise up, we won...
Vol 53 No 11 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN Sanctions threat drives talks 25th May 2012 Juba scrambles to regain the diplomatic initiative ahead of a new round of talks on oil and security with Khartoum Economic and diplomatic pressures will probably push the governments of Juba and Khartoum back to negotiations on oil and border issues before the end of May. This follows the Unit...
Vol 53 No 11 | SUDAN Rockets and meetings 25th May 2012 Khartoum blames Israel for bombing Port Sudan again while the opposition gets on with some planning The airstrike that killed the driver of a four-by-four vehicle in a Port Sudan suburb just before 8 a.m. on 22 May added to the pressure on the ruling National Congress Party regim...
Vol 53 No 9 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN All or nothing 27th April 2012 Khartoum is fighting on three fronts: a determined Southern army, confident armed oppositionists and a hostile population When President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir told the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), ‘Either we end up in Juba and take everything or you end up in Khartoum and take ever...
Vol 53 No 8 | SUDANUNITED NATIONS UN clash over Beijing bullets claim 13th April 2012 UN experts’ reports differ over Darfur arms violations A seismic diplomatic row is rumbling at United Nations headquarters in New York over the circulation of a damning report by former UN experts pointing to the supply of Chinese-made...
Vol 53 No 8 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN War drums sound as the South takes Heglig 13th April 2012 Khartoum mobilises against South Sudan and breaks off all negotiations The seizure of the oil town of Heglig by South Sudan’s armed forces on 10 April ratchets up Juba’s confrontation with Khartoum’s National Congress Party (NCP) regime, which also fa...
