Vol 53 No 11 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN Sanctions threat drives talks 25th May 2012 Juba scrambles to regain the diplomatic initiative ahead of a new round of talks on oil and security with Khartoum Economic and diplomatic pressures will probably push the governments of Juba and Khartoum back to negotiations on oil and border issues before the end of May. This follows the Unit...
Vol 53 No 9 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN All or nothing 27th April 2012 Khartoum is fighting on three fronts: a determined Southern army, confident armed oppositionists and a hostile population When President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir told the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), ‘Either we end up in Juba and take everything or you end up in Khartoum and take ever...
Vol 53 No 9 | SOUTH SUDAN A political and military test 27th April 2012 Church peacemakers and SPLA troops try to end a complex conflict Conflict on the border with Sudan may have calmed things in Jonglei, where South Sudan’s worst fighting had long been under way. Phase One of the government’s Disarmament, Demobili...
Vol 53 No 8 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN War drums sound as the South takes Heglig 13th April 2012 Khartoum mobilises against South Sudan and breaks off all negotiations The seizure of the oil town of Heglig by South Sudan’s armed forces on 10 April ratchets up Juba’s confrontation with Khartoum’s National Congress Party (NCP) regime, which also fa...
Vol 53 No 3 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN The South goes for sovereignty 3rd February 2012 Juba turns off the oil and turns up the pressure in its fraught negotiations with Khartoum over oil, cash, security and citizenship Few outside the Juba government had expected it to start shutting down oil production on 22 January. Warnings from the Government of South Sudan had been widely seen as brinkmanshi...
Vol 53 No 3 | SUDANSOUTH SUDAN Who pays the pipeline 3rd February 2012 Whatever the outcome of the oil talks between the Khartoum and Juba governments, the current crisis has focused thinking on southward leading pipelines. Industry and diplomatic opi...
Vol 53 No 1 | SOUTH SUDAN Rough roads ahead 6th January 2012 The problems of a new state plague South Sudan but the biggest challenges are from the old state to the north. South Sudan and north Sudan now celebrate Independence in different h...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 12 | SUDANSOUTH SUDANCHINABRIEFING Going with the flow 2nd October 2012 After months of talks, Sudan and South Sudan have signed agreements that should allow South Sudan to resume oil production. The 27 September deal came after a United Nations Secu...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 11 | SUDANSOUTH SUDANASIA Getting the oil to flow again 3rd September 2012 Chinese oil companies have been involved in the talks between Juba and Khartoum but Beijing still prefers quiet, behind-the-scenes pressure There is a surprising mood of optimism amongst politicians and oil company officials in Juba as South Sudan and Sudan enter the latest round of negotiations on oil and border issue...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 7 | SUDANSOUTH SUDANCHINA Beijing faces both ways 4th May 2012 Pressure is mounting on President Hu Jintao’s government to use its commercial ties with Juba and Khartoum for constructive diplomacy South Sudan’s government and ruling party have welcomed the billions of dollars in promised investment that resulted from President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s April visit to Beijing, bu...
