Vol 51 No 12 | SUDAN Oily alliances 11th June 2010 A new oil consortium operating in Darfur brings together private Arab, Gabonese and Libyan state interests and companies close to Khartoum’s ruling National Congress Party. It also raises...
Vol 51 No 10 | SUDANWORLD BANK Books not bribes 14th May 2010 The World Bank is looking for new printers following its decision to bar publishers Macmillan from all Bank contracts for six years. This follows the admission by a...
Vol 51 No 9 | SUDAN Stolen votes yield a hollow victory for Khartoum 30th April 2010 Vote-fixing in an election lacking any credibility has galvanised opposition in the North and may undermine the ruling party A beaming President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir waved his stick triumphantly as his victory was announced in Khartoum on 26 April. Yet the ruling National Congress Party...
Vol 51 No 9 | SUDAN A good vote in Africa 30th April 2010 Free, fair and good-humoured. They were organised and monitored entirely by Sudanese and their results were widely accepted as free and fair. Those were Sudan’s landmark elections of...
Vol 51 No 9 | SUDAN The deals, the votes and the fraud 30th April 2010 There was plenty of rigging and fixing of votes across the country but sometimes the best laid plans went awry.
Vol 51 No 8 | SUDAN An election victory that widens the North-South gap 16th April 2010 Western governments accept the regime’s rigged victory in exchange for what they hope will be a Southern referendum Long before voting started on 11 April, it was clear that the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in Khartoum would maintain its iron grip on power and that...
Vol 51 No 8 | SUDAN Election-rigging guide book 16th April 2010 Interested governments may turn a deaf ear but the opposition is making sure no one, at home or abroad, can credibly claim the 2010 elections were free and...
Vol 51 No 8 | SUDAN A moral dilemma 16th April 2010 There was no election boycott in Darfur by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, Ibrahim Agboola Gambari told Jimmy Carter on 10 April. The United States’ ex-President then told...
Vol 51 No 7 | SUDANANALYSIS As elections arrive, the opposition shuns Omer 2nd April 2010 Sudan is set to become the first country to elect an indicted war criminal as president. Yet the elections are deemed so unlikely to be free and fair that, as AC went to press, the focus was on the extent and effects of the opposition boycott. Oppositionists argued there was little to be gained by participating and lending credence to the elections as the regime had rigged a victory with a manipulated census and elector registration, gerrymandered constituency boundaries and used state funds to buy loyalty. In the face of blatant preparations for election rigging, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement decided on 31 March to boycott the national presidential election and all elections in...
Vol 51 No 7 | SUDAN The most complex elections 2nd April 2010 The combination of one of the most elaborate and time-consuming electoral systems and mass illiteracy across most of the country virtually guarantees chaos in Sudan's elections on 11-13...