Sudan

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 [...]

DAVID BASSIOUNI

He has been appointed coordinator for humanitarian aid for Somalia, [...]

MUHSIN REZA'I

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

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

Kartoum is making arrangements to eventually put its main fields [...]

MAJOR GOVERNMENT ATTACK ON SOUTH

The Sudanese government is not easing up on its major military offensive in the South of the country against Sudan [...]

ABDEL JALIL IBRAHIM

The Sudanese authorities have only just admitted the death of [...]

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"KENYAN PEACE" IN ILEMI TRIANGLE

The situation in the area known as the Ilemi triangle, in the far south-east of Sudan, sharing borders with Ethiopia and Kenya, is becoming tense. Since 1942, the Kenyan government has been responsible for the security of Ilemi (Kenya has [.

THE TAKING OF POCHALA TOWN

Sudanese government forces, 1,500 men, made up regular troops and people's defence militias (ad Diffa ash Shaabi), backed by about [...]

BERNARD KOUCHNER

French junior minister for humanitarian aid, Bernard Kouchner arrived on March 9, in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. During his visit [...]

SUDAN'S DIPLOMATIC MISSION

In a bid to escape from its international isolation, the Sudanese government is multiplying its diplomatic manoeuvres in the Horn [...]

SOUTH AFRICAN OIL LINK CONFIRMED

Rob Angell, managing Director of South African oil firm, Engen, has confimed that his company, a subsidiary of the Gencor [...]

OPPOSITION GETS ITS ACT TOGETHER

The attempted putsch within the Umma party (ION N°513) has come to an abrupt halt since Mohamed Ibrahim Khalil decided [...]

MOHAMED EL AMINE KHALIFA

Leader of the ruling junta, General Hassan Omar al Bashir, [...]

ENGEN CONFIRMS

Engen, the oil division of the South African mining group Gencor, is examining oil exploration and production possibilities in Sudan, [...]

Rift over maritime zones

A long-standing maritime border dispute between Egypt and Sudan has flared up anew following Khartoum's decision to deliver the Halaib [...]

DAWUD YAYA BULAD

Military leader of the SPLA rebels in southern Sudan, he [...]

MEETING BETWEEN GARANG AND AL BASHIR TO TAKE PLACE IN EGYPT

Sudan's vice president, brigadier al Zubair Mohamed Saleh is expected to arrive in Cairo soon to meet the Egyptian President [...]

SUDAN'S SOUTH AFRICAN SHOPPING LIST

A Franco-Tunisian businessman, known for his close ties with the banned Tunisian Islamic movement, Ennahdha, Mr Meherzi recently put in [...]