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 ...
Vol 54 No 16 | SOUTH SUDAN A power struggle, not a coup 1st August 2013 President Salva has opened the leadership contest by sacking his deputy and all his ministers – and has strengthened his position in the process When President Salva Kiir Mayardit sacked his Vice-President, all his ministers, the governing party’s Secretary General and several senior police officers on 23 July, the wo...
Vol 54 No 13 | SOUTH SUDAN New investors, armed and dangerous 17th June 2013 Juba's search for investment dollars has attracted disgraced European politicians and American military entrepreneurs Now styling himself an 'independent financial analyst', Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrived in Juba on 14 May to help highlight the launch of the National Credit Bank. Before falling fr...
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 ordered the ...
Vol 54 No 13 | SOUTH SUDAN Unhappy anniversary 17th June 2013 This time Khartoum turns off Juba's oil taps in a move that will damage both countries' economies and escalate tensions across the border The meeting between Khartoum's hawkish Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Kurti and China's Africa envoy Zhong Jianhua on 16 June over Sudan's plans to cut South Sudan's export pipeline sh...
Vol 54 No 13 | SOUTH SUDAN Ruling by decree 21st June 2013 President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s sacking of Cabinet Affairs Minister Deng Alor Kuol and Finance Minister Kosti Manibe Ngai on 18 June has prompted puzzlement and some hostilit...
Vol 54 No 11 | SOUTH SUDAN Reverses in Jonglei 24th May 2013 The conflict in Jonglei looks set to intensify despite the Juba government offering rebels an amnesty. The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) reports heavy fighting in ...
Vol 54 No 7 | SOUTH SUDANOIL AND GAS After they open the taps 29th March 2013 The 12 March deal between Juba and Khartoum now looks as if will restore South Sudan’s major source of government income – oil The Juba government ‘has given the order to resume oil production and companies are now making preparations to do so,’ a source close to the negotiations with Sudan told Africa Con...
Vol 54 No 7 | SOUTH SUDANOIL AND GAS What Juba gets from the oil deal 29th March 2013 Oil production from Unity State is expected to begin in ‘about three weeks’, said a source close to the deal on 12 March. Fields in Upper Nile, meanwhile, are expected to take ‘abo...
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 governments agreed on 12 March o...
