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Sudan

Airlift to Sudanese conflict zones continues to intrigue

Cargo planes are making almost daily flights between Uganda, Sudan and South Sudan. This lends weight to claims about Kampala's alleged support of the Rapid Support Forces.

Subscribers only Defence, Diplomacy 18.11.2024

Saudi Arabia resumes consular activities in Port Sudan

It is due to resume its consular activities at the beginning of December.

Subscribers only Diplomacy Running story - Sudan : the generals waging war 14.11.2024

Touadéra switches allegiance in Sudan civil war

Faustin-Archange Touadéra in Moscow, Russia, 16 February 2024. © Yekaterina Shtukina/Pool/AFP

Subscribers only Diplomacy Running story - Sudan : the generals waging war 13.11.2024

EU mulls fresh sanctions on Sudan's warring parties

With no let-up in sight after 18 months of devastating conflict, member states of the European bloc will next week decide whether to extend punitive measures imposed earlier this year on some of the war's key players.

Subscribers only Diplomacy Running story - Sudan : the generals waging war 13.11.2024

Hamdok keeps low profile in Brussels after London heckling

He did not appear in public in the Belgian capital.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 08.11.2024

Sudanese political parties nudged to resume Cairo talks

A group of independent politicians are preparing to organise a new meeting in November, following a gathering in Cairo in July.

Subscribers only Politics 06.11.2024

Why the army pushed RSF warlord Abu Aqla Kikl to defect

Militia leader Abu Aqla Kikl, who is coveted by both camps for his knowledge of the terrain, has switched allegiances once again. His recent defection to the army's SAF forces was presented as a major victory over the RSF, even though he has few fighters at his disposal.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 29.10.2024

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in Port Sudan on 31 July 2024.

Not yet time to send peacekeepers to Sudan, says Guterres

UN Secretary-General António Guterres is due to present a report to the Security Council on 28 October on the protection of civilians in Sudan's civil war. It will say that conditions are not yet right for the intervention of a UN force in the country.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 23.10.2024

António Guterres at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Vientiane, Laos, on 11 October 2024.

Sudanese religious leaders to meet in Cairo

The gathering is to take place on 13 and 14 November.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy 18.10.2024

Sudan fails to derail lawsuit over alleged 9/11 support

On 3 September, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit dismissed an appeal brought by Christopher Curran, a lawyer at White & Case, which is representing Sudan in this case.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 30.09.2024

Burhan plays for time before US election

Following the failure of mediation in Geneva, and as the United States gets closer to its presidential election, the war in Sudan is intensifying. The head of the Sudanese Armed Forces, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, is seeking to take advantage of the situation.

Subscribers only Politics, Diplomacy 23.09.2024

Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in Beijing, China, 3 September 2024.

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Khartoum, Mogadishu: crises in the Horn the focus of tense UN negotiations

With just a few days to go before the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, the European and American blocs are struggling to speak with one voice as the number of conflicts in Africa grows and Western donor funding dries up.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 18.09.2024

The United Nations Headquarters building in New York City on 16 July 2024.

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Washington, Brussels and London seek common ground on new sanctions

While the United States is trying to negotiate a humanitarian agreement between Sudan's warring parties in Geneva, Western powers are preparing a new set of sanctions. The two agendas risk clashing.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 29.08.2024

US Special Envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello, in Geneva, Switzerland, 23 August 2024.

Mediators' retreat exposes divisions ahead of Swiss peace talks

The agenda for this month's Sudan peace talks, co-organised by the US and Saudi Arabia, dominated discussions at a mediators' retreat in Djibouti. Intended to harmonise initiatives, the event instead revealed the tensions that are shaking the Horn.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 01.08.2024

Internally displaced Sudanese from Sennar state, in Gedaref city, in the east of war-torn Sudan on 14 July 2024.

AU struggles to advance inter-Sudanese dialogue

In the absence of the Taqaddum coalition and other movements who have not taken sides in Sudan's civil war, a preparatory meeting co-organised by the African Union and IGAD was criticised for lacking balance.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 15.07.2024

Paris poised to appoint new ambassador

The French foreign office is in the process of choosing a successor to Raja Rabia. Its Sudanese embassy was relocated to Addis Ababa after war broke out in April 2023.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 12.07.2024

Taqaddum coalition uncertain about attending AU's Sudan summit

The Taqaddum movement claims that there was insufficient consultation on the agenda and list of participants invited to the pan-African institution's extraordinary summit on Sudan, due to begin on 10 July. As such, it is reluctant to send representatives.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 09.07.2024

Inner circles
The Bashir old guard in Hemeti's ranks

Key figures in the ousted regime of Omar al-Bashir now gravitate around the RSF paramilitary leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, despite his claim of battling the regular army in part to rid Sudan of the former president's stalwarts.

Subscribers only Politics 28.06.2024

Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, aka Hemeti, Sudan's Rapid Support Forces paramilitary commander in Khartoum on 8 June 2022.

Salva Kiir pulls out all the stops in fresh bid to secure Sudan peace talks

With its oil exports crippled by the conflict in Sudan, the South Sudanese government is working hard to bring the parties back to the negotiating table.

Subscribers only Energy, Diplomacy 03.06.2024

South Sudan President Salva Kiir in Nairobi on 9 May 2024.

Hamdok's unilateral actions create headache for Taqaddum coalition

A few days away from a key convention in Addis Ababa, the former Sudanese PM and leader of the civil coalition is facing mounting criticism, both internally and from Western diplomatic circles, for his independent initiatives.

Subscribers only Politics 24.05.2024

Abdalla Hamdok during a press conference in Abu Dhabi on 16 April 2023.

Taqaddum civil movement struggles to organise expansion meet

The coalition led by Sudanese former prime minister Abdalla Hamdok is keen to bring in more political movements. But its ambitions clash with regional interests in the country's civil war.

Subscribers only Politics 08.05.2024

Former Sudanese prime minister Abdalla Hamdok, in December 2019.

Burhan appoints trusted ambassador to Cairo ahead of Jeddah talks

Sudanese Armed Forces chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has appointed Emad al-Din Mustafa Adawi as Sudan's ambassador in Cairo. The move comes as talks with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are to resume in Jeddah in the latest bid to end the civil war.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 29.04.2024

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Airlift to Sudanese conflict zones continues to intrigue

Saudi Arabia resumes consular activities in Port Sudan

Touadéra switches allegiance in Sudan civil war

EU mulls fresh sanctions on Sudan's warring parties

Hamdok keeps low profile in Brussels after London heckling

Sudanese political parties nudged to resume Cairo talks

Why the army pushed RSF warlord Abu Aqla Kikl to defect

Not yet time to send peacekeepers to Sudan, says Guterres

Sudanese religious leaders to meet in Cairo

Sudan fails to derail lawsuit over alleged 9/11 support

Burhan plays for time before US election

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Khartoum, Mogadishu: crises in the Horn the focus of tense UN negotiations

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Washington, Brussels and London seek common ground on new sanctions

Mediators' retreat exposes divisions ahead of Swiss peace talks

AU struggles to advance inter-Sudanese dialogue

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Taqaddum coalition uncertain about attending AU's Sudan summit

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Hamdok's unilateral actions create headache for Taqaddum coalition

Taqaddum civil movement struggles to organise expansion meet

Burhan appoints trusted ambassador to Cairo ahead of Jeddah talks

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Sudan

Airlift to Sudanese conflict zones continues to intrigue

Saudi Arabia resumes consular activities in Port Sudan

Touadéra switches allegiance in Sudan civil war

EU mulls fresh sanctions on Sudan's warring parties

Hamdok keeps low profile in Brussels after London heckling

Sudanese political parties nudged to resume Cairo talks

Why the army pushed RSF warlord Abu Aqla Kikl to defect

Not yet time to send peacekeepers to Sudan, says Guterres

Sudanese religious leaders to meet in Cairo

Sudan fails to derail lawsuit over alleged 9/11 support

Burhan plays for time before US election

Spotlight Khartoum, Mogadishu: crises in the Horn the focus of tense UN negotiations

Spotlight Washington, Brussels and London seek common ground on new sanctions

Mediators' retreat exposes divisions ahead of Swiss peace talks

AU struggles to advance inter-Sudanese dialogue

Paris poised to appoint new ambassador

Taqaddum coalition uncertain about attending AU's Sudan summit

Inner circles The Bashir old guard in Hemeti's ranks

Salva Kiir pulls out all the stops in fresh bid to secure Sudan peace talks

Hamdok's unilateral actions create headache for Taqaddum coalition

Taqaddum civil movement struggles to organise expansion meet

Burhan appoints trusted ambassador to Cairo ahead of Jeddah talks

Burhan clan divided ahead of Jeddah talks

Washington changes strategy ahead of fresh talks in Jeddah

Swiss seek mediation role in East African crises

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DRC
The Tshisekedi clan's dangerous ties with cobalt looting "cartels"

Gabon
Gunvor secrets (2/2): the hidden clauses of the Assala Energy buyout

Spotlight
Khartoum, Mogadishu: crises in the Horn the focus of tense UN negotiations

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Washington, Brussels and London seek common ground on new sanctions

Inner circles
The Bashir old guard in Hemeti's ranks