Vol 5 (AAC) No 11 | SUDANSOUTH SUDANASIA Getting the oil to flow again 3rd September 2012 Chinese oil companies have been involved in the talks between Juba and Khartoum but Beijing still prefers quiet, behind-the-scenes pressure There is a surprising mood of optimism amongst politicians and oil company officials in Juba as South Sudan and Sudan enter the latest round of negotiations on oil and border issue...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 7 | SUDANSOUTH SUDANCHINA Beijing faces both ways 4th May 2012 Pressure is mounting on President Hu Jintao’s government to use its commercial ties with Juba and Khartoum for constructive diplomacy South Sudan’s government and ruling party have welcomed the billions of dollars in promised investment that resulted from President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s April visit to Beijing, bu...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 7 | SUDANSOUTH SUDANCHINA Eight billion dollars, a mike and no peace 4th May 2012 Border clashes between Sudan and South Sudan brought an early close to Salva Kiir Mayardit’s trip to China, originally due to end on 28 April. After a session with President Hu Jin...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 4 | SUDANSOUTH SUDANCHINA Workers safe but oil at risk 10th February 2012 Oil rows and workers caught in the crossfire force Beijing to develop political and military tools to accompany its ever-growing economic muscle Sudan and South Sudan are dragging a reluctant China into their smouldering relations at a time when both sides say the situation is on the brink of open armed conflict. Beijing’s ...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 4 | SUDANSOUTH SUDANCHINA Oil flows eastward 10th February 2012 Tension in Sudan and South Sudan boosts the Kenyan backers of the Lamu port and corridor projects. South Sudanese officials had already been in talks to join their planned pipeline...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 2 | SUDANSOUTH SUDANCHINA Pipeline problems 13th December 2011 On 28 November, Sudan’s Petroleum Minister Ali Ahmed Osman announced that South Sudan would no longer be able to export its crude through the northern pipeline and Port Sudan, prov...
Vol 52 No 23 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN Implausible denials 18th November 2011 As the Sudan Revolutionary Front is launched, the regime tries to parry opposition in the North by bombing South Sudan Khartoum’s bombing of a refugee camp in South Sudan on 10 November has drawn unprecedented condemnation and stirred fears of a return to full-scale war between North and South. The...
Vol 52 No 21 | SUDAN Opposition on the march 21st October 2011 Political and military oppositionists coordinate their campaigns as economic pressures mount on Khartoum A new military-political alliance of northern oppositionists is determinedly confronting the Khartoum regime, just three months after South Sudan formally seceded. The two developm...
Vol 52 No 21 | SUDAN Military momentum 21st October 2011 The impetus for the opposition’s new determination comes from the military success of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states. The SPLA-N...
Vol 52 No 21 | MALAWISUDAN Brothers-in-arms 21st October 2011 Western governments seem unimpressed by the efforts of Foreign Minister Arthur Peter Mutharika, brother of President Bingu wa Mutharika, to persuade them to restore aid to Malawi. ...
