Vol 56 No 10 | SOUTH SUDAN The other crisis 1st May 2015 As government funds dry up and talks with the World Bank break down, Juba is seeking increasingly risky loans The government in Juba is trying to make do with virtually no income. The fall in the world price of oil, the government's main source of income, has...
Vol 56 No 6 | SOUTH SUDAN To publish or be damned 20th March 2015 The African Union faces growing demands to release its no-holds-barred report detailing the role of top officials in ethnic killing As regional authorities struggle to break South Sudan's political impasse with yet another round of peace talks planned for Addis Ababa next month, the African Union faces an...
Vol 56 No 6 | SOUTH SUDAN Blurred lines and child soldiers 20th March 2015 A programme backed by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) to demobilise child soldiers could be doing the opposite: prompting more abductions of children. It started so well....
Vol 56 No 5 | SOUTH SUDAN A test of everyone’s will 6th March 2015 After 14 months of civil war, the two sides are in last-chance talks with the threat of international sanctions hanging over them Talks between the Juba government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition, plus the group of former detainees, continued as Africa Confidential went to press. The two sides looked...
Vol 56 No 3 | SOUTH SUDAN US security and Chinese capital 6th February 2015 There’s a build-up of arms and fighters in the Upper Nile oil fields amid doubts about the latest ceasefire deal An innovative alliance between United States' security expertise and Chinese capital – in the form of a Hong Kong-registered company called Frontier Services Group (FSG) – is giving...
Vol 56 No 2 | SOUTH SUDAN Long tunnel, glimmer of light 22nd January 2015 A step has been taken to end the fighting and towards a lasting political agreement. Weak oil prices put more pressure on the government A tentative step forward has been made with a political reunification deal signed in Arusha on 21 January between President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his sacked Deputy Riek...
Vol 55 No 18 | SOUTH SUDAN A deadline for the deadline 12th September 2014 Regional officials are finally running out of patience with obfuscation from both warring parties and could impose sanctions next month This time the deadline for a peace and power-sharing agreement is serious, runs the message from regional and international officials. On 25 August, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development...
Vol 55 No 14 | SOUTH SUDAN Famine ‘almost a certainty’ 4th July 2014 The conflict has caused a food emergency and sanctions against the rival leaders for blocking progress are now on the table One million South Sudanese are threatened by starvation, with at least another three million at serious risk, United Nations and United States' officials say. The US Agency for...
Vol 55 No 10 | SOUTH SUDAN The end of the beginning 16th May 2014 President Salva Kiir and his former Deputy, Riek Machar, have agreed to an interim government but its shape is far from clear Mediators in Addis Ababa studiously played down the fact that the cessation of hostilities agreement signed on 9 May was not the result of face-to-face talks between South...
Vol 55 No 10 | SOUTH SUDAN Fixing the forces 16th May 2014 Foreign military assistance is piecemeal and has yet to be sorted out. Britain’s contribution, for instance, includes training an officer in England, along with one from Sudan. The...