Sudan

OIL ZONES CLEARED

Govvernment forces appear poised to clear rebel forces from a zone in the south of the country where Chevron made [...]

MILITARY REALITY VS POLITICAL ILLUSION

Sudanese government troops out of Pochala took the town of Pibor on April 23. Continuing their victory on the road [...]

JUNTA DEMANDS EC AID

The Sudanese ambassador at the European Commission, Sayeed Saad, recently called for the 165 million ecus allocated to Sudan under [...]

KHARTOUM'S AIRBUS DEAL

French bank Crédit Agricole has set up a cover company based in Venezuela, through which it will finance the 50 [...]

HASSAN AL TURABI

The leader of the Sudanese National Islamic Front (NIF) arrived [...]

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A HUMANITARIAN YALTA ?

Albeit with its intentions veiled, the recent conference on humanitarian questions, held this month in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, was the first step in a kind of episodic Yalta agreement, aimed at restructuring the whole region, under the watchful [.

SOUTHERN REBELS HOLD OUT

The Sudanese government offensive targeting the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) led by Colonel John Garang, seemed to have [...]

DECISIVE BATTLE AT NGANGALA

Sudanese government forces won a major victory at Bahr al Ghazal after breaking through the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) [...]

DONALD PETTERSON

Former ambassador to Somalia from 1978 to 1982, then to Tanzania from 1986 to 1989, this man has been ppointed [...]

STATE ARMY GAINING GROUND AGAIN

A two thousand-strong government army contingent, with air support, captured the town of Bor in the South of Sudan on [...]

OMAR HASSAN AL BASHIR

Sudan's President went to Djibouti on April 7, where he [...]

Sudan's foreign minister, Ali Sahloul, says he handed a message [...]

BOFOUR OSMAN ABU AFFAN

Appointed vice-president of the African Development Bank (ADB), she is the first woman to hold this post at the ADB, [...]

GOVERNMENT ATTACK LOSES IMPETUS

The Sudanese government's major attack on the SPLA rebels in the South of the country (ION N°519), seems to be [...]

SHIFTING ALLIANCES

Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi, stopped off in Khartoum on his way to London for three days (ION N°520). In [...]

TOUGH TIMES FOR JIHAD ISLAMIYYA

The Eritrean Islamic organisation, Jihad Islamiyya was still in the Sudanese government's good books last year, receiving support from the [...]

CHEVRON PREPARED TO FOREGO OIL RIGHTS

Simultaneously with its launch of a major offensive on the SPLA positions in the South of Sudan, the Sudanese government [...]

MUHSIN REZA'I

Chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (Pasdarans), he apparently made [...]

According to government-run media, leader of the junta in Sudan, [...]