Vol 40 No 24 | SUDAN Hostile homeland 3rd December 1999 The opposition's swift rejection of the 25 November agreement between the National Islamic Front and Umma Party has surprised both signatories. National Democratic Alliance leaders were 'unanimous' in...
Vol 40 No 23 | SUDAN A gambit too far 19th November 1999 The National Islamic Front's bid to smash the opposition while convincing outsiders it seeks reconciliation has provoked the normally taciturn Saudi Arabian government into denying reports that it...
Vol 40 No 19 | SUDANAFRICA Blow up 24th September 1999 As the opposition attacks Khartoum's new pipeline, Colonel Gadaffi tries to mediate The opposition fighters who blew a hole in the government's new oil pipeline on 19 September also blew apart its campaign to convince the world that it has...
Vol 40 No 19 | SUDAN Pipe bombs 24th September 1999 The 19 September attack on the brand new, 1,600-kilometre export pipeline proves two points: firstly, the falsehood of the claim by the National Islamic Front government that the...
Vol 40 No 17 | SUDAN Gas mask 27th August 1999 Ten years after the National Islamic Front government agreed that the United Nations could carry relief to all 'war-affected populations', the UN's Operation Lifeline Sudan has taken its...
Vol 40 No 15 | SUDAN Arranged marriages 23rd July 1999 A growing flirtation with the Umma Party is one sign of the National Islamic Front's continuing charm offensive. At our press-time, NIF leader Hassan el Turabi and Umma...
Vol 40 No 13 | SUDAN The NIF goes on a charm offensive 25th June 1999 Europe takes Khartoum's promises of dialogue and an 'oil bonanza' seriously – unlike Washington and the Sudanese themselves Last week in Khartoum, where mixed student outings have been common for decades, 25 students who went on a picnic were publicly flogged for 'immoral' behaviour. The girls...
Vol 40 No 13 | SUDAN The National Islamic Front on parade 25th June 1999 Hassan el Turabi heads a team of sometimes quarrelling but always committed people. The key NIF people in government have been there since the 1989 coup. A number...
Vol 40 No 10 | ERITREAETHIOPIASUDANHORN OF AFRICA Regional collisions 14th May 1999 The Eritrea-Ethiopia war is helping the Islamist regime in Khartoum and further destabilising Djibouti and Somalia The main beneficiary of the Eritrean-Ethiopian war (AC Vol 40 No 4, Pride and prejudice & My enemy's enemy) is Sudan’s National Islamic Front government. A year ago,...
Vol 40 No 10 | SUDAN Lightning strike 14th May 1999 A series of opposition victories against the National Islamic Front government has prompted Khartoum to delay 'negotiations' in Nairobi under the auspices of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development....
Vol 40 No 7 | SUDAN War in the mountains 2nd April 1999 The National Islamic Front fears the Nuba revolt will derail its partition plan The ruling National Islamic Front has started a major new offensive against the Sudan People's Liberation Army in the Nuba mountains. Apparently alarmed at the success of opposition...
Vol 40 No 2 | SUDANIRAQ Political chemistry 22nd January 1999 A key reason why the United States bombed El Shifa factory on 20 August (AC Vol 39 No 17) was because of its links to Iraq,...
Vol 40 No 1 | SUDANBRITAIN The long arm 8th January 1999 The Pinochet effect persists in Britain with the trial, now expected this March, of a Sudanese doctor who is charged with committing torture and omitting to prevent it...