Vol 49 No 16 | SUDAN Saving Omer 1st August 2008 An international court accuses President Omer el Beshir but he has some unlikely defenders The International Criminal Court's bid to put President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir on trial for genocide is the sternest test yet for the emerging system of international...
Vol 49 No 16 | SUDAN Taking positions 1st August 2008 There has been a strong international reaction to the ICC's application for an arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omer el Beshir for genocide, war crimes and crimes against...
Vol 49 No 15 | SUDANANALYSIS Abyei - a border that shapes the future 18th July 2008 As the International Criminal Court laid charges of genocide against President Omer el Beshir on 14 July, Africa Confidential obtained a United Nations' internal report that blames the Khartoum regime for much of the death and destruction in Abyei in May. The report criticises the UN's shortcomings in Sudan but also notes that government bomber aircraft targeted aid headquarters and that local people regard goverment strategy as ethnic cleansing. The immediate trigger for the crisis over Abyei is Khartoum's refusal to accept a ruling made by the Abyei Boundaries Commission (ABC) under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement...
Vol 49 No 15 | SUDAN 'If you have a gun you attack everything in front of you' 18th July 2008 The debate over the International Criminal Court's charges against President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir (see Pointer) has focused on the ICC, the fractious peace negotiations and the...
Vol 49 No 15 | SUDAN War crimes 18th July 2008 Will Khartoum finally drop President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir, charged on 14 July with ten counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity? That is what...
Vol 49 No 14 | SUDANUGANDA Kony causes trouble again 4th July 2008 The rebel chief Kony's refusal to make peace causes trouble between Uganda and South Sudan On 30 June, Southern Sudan's Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon ordered the Ugandan People's Defence Forces out of the country, accusing the UPDF of kidnapping and killing a...
Vol 49 No 12 | SUDAN The cracks spread 6th June 2008 Rifts in the Unity Government become public but the Northern opposition again fails to seize its chance The political aftershock of the attacks on Omdurman and Abyei is spreading. Most dramatically, Southern President Salva Kiir Mayardit has condemned the government in which his Sudan People’s...
Vol 49 No 11 | SUDAN Battle of Omdurman 23rd May 2008 The Darfur rebel attack on the capital exposes the weaknesses of the Islamist National Congress regime The attack on the capital by the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) on 10 May opened a new chapter in the stories of Darfur and of Sudan's Islamist...
Vol 49 No 11 | SUDAN Who is JEM? 23rd May 2008 The Justice and Equality (initially Justice and Equity) Movement was founded in late 2002, after government-backed militias intensified their attacks in Darfur; it became operational by late 2003....
Vol 49 No 11 | SUDAN Abyei devastated 23rd May 2008 Heavy fighting between the Sudan Armed Forces and the SPLA points to more conflict ahead There had been no shortage of warnings about Abyei, the area on the North-South border where Khartoum has refused to implement a boundary ruling under the Comprehensive Peace...