Sudan

POWER STRUGGLE: BASHIR VS TURABI

Taking advantage of the recent enforced hospital visit in Ottawa by the leader of the National Islamic Front (NIF) Hassan [...]

KINGA GEORGE

The Sudanese labour minister resigned and fled to Cairo last [...]

The official Iranian radio station announced on 27 July that [...]

FIERCE FIGHTING IN JUBA

The SPLA forces led by Colonel John Garang launched a series of attacks on the main city in the South [...]

The town of Torit, occupied for many years by the [...]

DIPLOMATS ACCUSED OF IVORY TRAFFICKING

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from a spokesman for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the prosecutor [...]

KAZI SALLAH-ADINE

The secretary of state at the presidency in Sudan recently told the Arabic press that his country has no objections [...]

MILITARY PACT WITH IRAN

According to Radio Tehran, a Sudanese military delegation led by the commander-in-chief of the Sudanese governmental armed forces, General Hassan [...]

ALFRED AYROL

A journalist and announcer on Radio Juba, the radio station of the capital of the southern Sudanese province of Equatoria, [...]

The United Nations is preparing to issue another appeal for [...]

CHEVRON SELLS OUT OIL RIGHTS

American oil company Chevron last week confirmed that it had soled its exploration and production rights in Sudan to Concorp [...]

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 [...]