Sudan

Concern is growing about the economic and political conflicts which threaten the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in January 2005. Many of these conflicts stem from the opacity...

Global Witness found mismatches between the Sudan government's figures and those of the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and other company figures on oil production fo...

In the eyes of Western intelligence agencies, Salah Gosh was an important figure to cultivate. He was, according to British, French and United States officials, a source of valuabl...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

A momentous year awaits Sudan. Amid fighting in the South and Darfur, elections are due in February and the Southern referendum on independence is scheduled for 2011. The Islamist ...

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 Libe...

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 s...

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 h...