Sudan

TIN SOLDIERS' GAMES

The capture of the little town of Lafon, in Equatoria Oriental, on April 9 by members of Southern Sudan Independence [...]

GORDON BILNEY

Australia's cooperation minister announced in Sydney on April 14 that [...]

THE TRIPOLI AGREEMENT

A Sudanese delegation headed by vice president Al Zubeyr Mohamed Saleh and a Ugandan delegation led by first deputy prime [...]

RUSSIAN MILITARY COOPERATION

A high-level Russian military delegation led by the chairman of the department of international military cooperation of Moscow's defence ministry [...]

Flag carrier Sudan Air is currently negotiating selling off half [...]

The chairman of the Iranian parliament, Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri, says [...]

WAR OF WORDS

The day that Khartoum saw the opening of the Arab and Islamic conference (held from March 30 to April 2) [...]

From guns to words

After having occupied Nasir, the military base of major Riek Machar's South Sudan Independence Movement on March 25, the Sudanese [...]

AAC EYES SUDAN'S GOLD

The world's leading gold producer, Anglo American Corporation (ACC), is showing a keen interest in Sudan's gold potential. A delegation [...]

COTTON AS PAYMENT FOR DAM STUDY

Sudan, which lacks external funding for its infrastructure programmes, will use cotton as payment for a study on building a [...]

KLONDIKE FEVER

Several gold-mining projects are the subject of negotiations or are close to completion between the Sudanese government and foreign groups, [...]

JIMMY CARTER

The former US president succeeded in getting the Sudanese government [...]

France is expected to announce (on April 4) its policy [...]

SPECIAL IGADD SUMMIT

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from diplomatic sources in Nairobi, the Kenyan government, spurred on by [...]

ARMY ATTACKS SSIM

Since the beginning of its rebellion against the leadership of colonel John Garang at the head of the Sudanese People's [...]

MELES ZENAWI

Ethiopia's head of state Meles Zenawi has officially confirmed that [...]

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, Sudanese [...]

Spotlight
PARIS WANTS TO CHARM KHARTOUM

Paris never misses a chance to try to charm Khartoum. But the option is a strictly geo-strategical choice: hopes that Sudanese mediation might help find peace in Algeria, determination to cock a snoot at the United States, or simply a [.

IACOOB SIMBINDE

The government of Mozambique and the state security services SISE [...]