Vol 54 No 25 | EGYPTETHIOPIASUDANITALY Secrets of the dam builder 12th December 2013 Sudan has now thrown its weight behind the Millennium Dam, at a time when curiosity about the contractor, Salini, was already growing As Egyptian, Ethiopian and Sudanese ministers sat down to discuss the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on 9 December, one item was notably absent from the agenda. The role...
Vol 54 No 25 | EGYPTETHIOPIASUDAN Shoring up regional support 12th December 2013 After a period of defiant independence, Addis Ababa has now, belatedly perhaps, built strong diplomatic support behind the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Before the joint meeting of the...
Vol 54 No 25 | SUDAN Saving Field Marshal Omer 12th December 2013 President Omer el Beshir promised to step down in 2015 and now he has a new deputy whom he trusts not to turn him over to the ICC Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir ‘decided to meet his fate with those he trusts most’, said a senior opposition source of the 8 December reshuffle. Some key leaders...
Vol 54 No 25 | EGYPTSUDAN Cape to Cairo, again 12th December 2013 Agrogate, an Egyptian private equity group, hopes to start work this month on a hard-top road in Sudan, the 362 kilometre Dongola-Toshke (Argeen) Highway, which will link the...
Vol 54 No 20 | SUDAN September uprising 3rd October 2013 Spontaneous street protests against price rises quickly escalated into calls for the overthrow of the regime The sight of one of the regime’s stalwarts, Nafi’e Ali Nafi’e, being driven out of the wake for a protestor killed by security officers on 27 September summed...
Vol 54 No 20 | SUDAN End of Salvation 3rd October 2013 A leading light in the ruling NCP tells a London audience that the Islamist project is over and democratic transformation is imminent ’The phase of Salvation is over,’ the Director of Khartoum’s Centre for Strategic Studies, Sayed el Hassan el Khatib, told Britain’s Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham...
Vol 54 No 17 | SUDAN Omer needs friends 22nd August 2013 The coming government reshuffle could bring back two pariahs: Hassan Abdullah el Turabi’s faction and former security chief Salah Mohamed Abdullah ‘Gosh’, who was arrested last November but...
Vol 54 No 16 | SUDANSOUTH SUDANUNITED NATIONS Mission impossible 30th July 2013 The UN Security Council renews its peacekeepers’ mandate in Darfur but UN operations in Sudan have failed to protect civilians or prevent war The worsening political crises in Juba and Khartoum are fuelling hostilities between the two capitals. When South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit sacked his cabinet on 23 July,...
Vol 54 No 13 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN Turning the oil taps on and off again 17th June 2013 Khartoum's latest threat to shut down South Sudan's oil pipeline may look like political retaliation against the Juba government but it was prompted by a growing internal crisis in Sudan Just as oil had just started to flow again from South Sudan to Sudan, after months of negotiations and external pressure, Sudan's President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir...
Vol 54 No 9 | SUDAN Tactics but no strategy 26th April 2013 Under pressure from internal divisions and fighting wars on three fronts, the ruling party is struggling to reinvent itself Everyone welcomed the opening of the regime’s talks with the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North in Ethiopia on 23 April. The ruling National Congress Party presents the talks as...
Vol 54 No 9 | SUDAN Rifts in the regime 26th April 2013 The coalition of army and security bodies controls the levers of power, with President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir at the top beside the Defence Minister, General Abdel...
Vol 54 No 6 | SUDAN 'Cruel and inhumane' 15th March 2013 Khartoum has reacted angrily to criticism of the cross-amputation of Adam el Muthna, 30, who had his right hand and left foot cut off last month after being...
Vol 54 No 6 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN Tap dancing 15th March 2013 There is widespread optimism that oil will soon again flow from South Sudan to Sudan after a 14-month break since Juba turned off the tap. The two...
Vol 54 No 4 | MALISUDAN Jihadists from Mali in Darfur 15th February 2013 The arrival of the latest batch of foreign fighters complicates Khartoum’s tactical options The Khartoum regime’s ties with Islamists in the region are under scrutiny again following the arrival in Darfur of jihadists retreating from the French military campaign in northern...
Vol 54 No 4 | SUDANBRITAIN British military aid for Sudan 15th February 2013 The latest round of British military cooperation with Sudan under the aegis of its Defence Minister, General Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein, who is wanted by the International Criminal...
Vol 54 No 3 | SUDAN Losing ground at the AU 1st February 2013 Despite the NCP’s intense efforts to court African governments, the African Union starts to pressure Khartoum The growing seriousness of the disputes between the Khartoum and Juba governments was clear at the African Union summit in Addis Ababa when Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan convened...
Vol 54 No 1 | SUDAN Khartoum in a corner 10th January 2013 Pressure will mount on the ruling party as its political and military opponents reorganise and the economy weakens Two pressing challenges – the failing economy and a more effective opposition – will confront the National Congress Party regime this year. There is no prospect of...
Vol 54 No 1 | SUDAN Omer el Beshir’s New Year’s Party 10th January 2013 Only one other head of state stood on the podium beside President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir on 1 January. That was President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia....
Vol 6 (AAC) No 6 | SUDANSOUTH SUDANCHINA Triangular relations 4th April 2013 China may be a weapon which Khartoum and Juba use in their conflicts but oil interests lock all three parties into a triangular relationship On 15 March, President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir sent a message of congratulations to China’s new President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang, who officially assumed...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 4 | SUDAN Ali Mahmoud Abdul Rasul 11th February 2013 Minister of Finance and National Economy, Sudan Finance Minister Ali Mahmoud Abdul Rasul announced on 17 January that his National Congress Party government had secured a US$1.5 billion loan from the state-run China Development Bank....