Vol 50 No 10 | SUDAN Open sesame 15th May 2009 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...
Vol 50 No 9 | CHADSUDAN Who shoots first? 1st May 2009 The regimes in N’djamena and Khartoum are preparing for another proxy war, this time with more guns and better technology On the Chad-Sudan border, everyone is asking who will fire first. As the mandate of the European Union Force (EUFOR) in eastern Chad ran out last month, Sudan's rebel Justice and E...
Vol 50 No 9 | SUDAN Warnings 1st May 2009 International concern is rising over the North-South peace deal and the national elections due under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. This week, the head of the CPA's Assessment ...
Vol 50 No 7 | SUDAN Air strikes and silence 3rd April 2009 Why was Khartoum so reluctant to admit that its arms transhipments had been hit by Israeli air strikes? Khartoum said nothing about Israel's air strikes on north-east Sudan in January and February until the news leaked out through an Egyptian newspaper last week. It then blamed them ...
Vol 50 No 7 | SUDAN Security in disguise 3rd April 2009 Khartoum’s expulsion of 13 international non-governmental organisations has provided an opportunity for asset stripping (AC Vol 50 No 6). Instead of handing over premises, equipmen...
Vol 50 No 6 | SUDAN New battles for Darfur 20th March 2009 As some SLM factions regroup, the Justice and Equality Movement tries to position itself for a new order The political crisis in Khartoum after the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir has fostered new hopes among the opposition, not ...
Vol 50 No 6 | SUDAN Khartoum fights back 20th March 2009 President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir made a long and inflammatory speech at a 16 March ceremony in Khartoum's Green Square. The Sudan Armed Forces, security, militia and police sw...
Vol 50 No 5 | SUDAN Omer the outlaw 6th March 2009 The Islamist regime shows its true colours as the ICC issues the arrest warrant for President Omer el Beshir The arrest warrant for President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir, which the International Criminal Court issued on 4 March, is a landmark event (AC Vol 50 Nos 2 & 4). For Sudan, th...
Vol 50 No 4 | SUDAN Nice enough 20th February 2009 Instead of going down in history as the man who prosecuted Slobodan Milosevic for genocide, Sir Geoffrey Nice may be remembered as the man who tried to save Omer Hassan Ahmed el Be...
Vol 50 No 2 | SUDAN New politics, new threats 23rd January 2009 Three new developments will shape Sudan's politics this year: the International Criminal Court's (ICC) issue of an arrest warrant for President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir; the planned elections under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement; and the inauguration of President Barack Obama's government in the United States with a clear commitment to act against Khartoum's mass murder in Darfur. New politics, new threats The ruling National Congress (NC, aka National Islamic Front) is struggling to adapt to new realities. A dozen years of meticulous planning and patient en...
