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SPLA MOVES TOWARDS REUNIFICATION

At the end of the negotiations that opened in Nairobi on June 10 under the aegis of the Sudanese and [...]

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HEGLIG AND UNITY PROJECT UNVEILED

Chevron confirmed in San Francisco on June 15 that it had sold its exploration and production interests in Sudan to "a Sudanese company based in Khartoum" (AEM 89), Concorp International Limited. But the deal, the terms of which were not [.

TURABI'S SUCCESSOR IN THE WINGS

After the attack on Hassan al Turabi, the leader of the Sudanese National Islamic Front (NIF) in Ottawa, Canada on [...]

Chevron wants to sell off permits

The American oil Chevron recently offered major oil companies the chance to buy up some of Chevron's permits in Sudan, [...]

HASSAN AZADA

The former head of Iran's Pasdarans in Lebanon for three years has been appointed to Khartoum. Hassan Azada will be [...]

FIRST THE TALKS, THEN THE BANGS

The peace negotiations in Abuja finally came to a conclusion with the signature on June 4 of a joint declaration [...]

CHEVRON SELLOFF

With Chevon poised to sell off all or part of its Sudanese assets a new company has been set up [...]

Hope for compromise on Halaib

The International Petroleum Corp has been reassured by Khartoum that [...]

ABUJA SURPRISES

The peace negotiations in Abuja (ION N° 529) which ended unsuccessfully this week have produced some astonishing turnabouts. Contrary to [...]

NASR HASSAN BECHIR NASR

This retired army colonel and former member of military intelligence prior to 1989 was condemned to death on 28 May [...]

Hassan Al Tourabi attacked

The leader of the National Islamic Front (NIF), Hassan Al Tourabi, who was on a private visit in Canada after [...]

BRITISH FOOD AID

Britain's minister for overseas development, Lynda Chalker, announced on 1 June that Great Britain has granted further emergency food aid [...]

WILLIAM NYUON BANY

Member of the high command of the Sudanese Peoples' Liberation Army, a veteran of the first civil conflict who was [...]

PETROLEUM SECTOR ON TENTERHOOKS

Sudan's government has still not received any serious offers for exploiting petroleum reserves in the southern and western regions of [...]

PEACE - IN ABUJA? OR IN DAKAR?

The military front appears momentarily stabilised in southern Sudan, with the SPLA forces of Colonel John Garang re-establishing some pressure [...]

BCCI KHARTOUM LIQUIDATED

Following failure of the salvage attempt on the subsidiary of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in Khartoum, [...]

CONFLICT STILL ON AS TALKS DUE TO OPEN

While negotiations between the Sudanese government and the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) are due to open in the [...]

The national council of the Eritrean Liberation Front-United Organisation (ELF-UO) [...]

ROBERT HOUDEK

A Sudanese source says the United States diplomat who seconds [...]