Sudan

KHARTOUM HATES BRUSSELS

The Sudanese government has banned Belgian military aircraft from overflying Sudanese territory and has accused that air force of parachuting [...]

Reacting to the campaign against Sudan by humanitarian organization Amnesty [...]

ALAN FLETCHER GOULTY

Britain's new ambassador to Sudan is expected to be Alan Fletcher Goulty, who has held Britain's second diplomatic slot in [...]

MILITARY STALEMATE AT KAPOETA

Combatant members of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army headed by colonel John Garang, who encircled government army units inside the [...]

AL TAYEB ZEIN AL-ABIDINE

An "intellectual" in the National Islamic Front headed by Hassan al Tourabi and regarded as a moderate person who might [...]

Four international companies have answered the Sudan government's Call for [...]

The organization Amnesty International this week launched a campaign denouncing [...]

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COUNTDOWN TO CONFLICT

Ever since peace talks between Eritrea and Sudan in Sanaa (Yemen) failed at the end of December after the Khartoum authorities refused to condemn the Jihad Eritrea (Islamic armed opposition group) which Asmara accuses of destabilizing activities (ION N° 654), [.

IGADD AND THE UNITED NATIONS

Following the breakdown of Yemen's mediation in the Eritrea-Sudan conflict after the Khartoum authorities refused to disassociate themselves publicly from [...]

Ugandan defence minister Amana Mbalazi stated in Kampala on January [...]

INTERIM BALANCE AT KAPOETA

Claim and counter-claim continue to flow from Sudan, with the Khartoum authorities reporting in mid-December that government forces still held [...]

IRAQ SAID TO ENTER PICTURE

One of the obstacles to financing the Arakis-State Petroleum project to develop Chevon's Unity and Heglig discoveries has been lifted [...]

ALL CHANGE

A grand diplomatic shake-out is being whipped up in Khartoum: Sudan's ambassadors in Rome (Abdallah Mohamed Ahmed), Washington (Ahmed Suleiman), [...]

BAKRY HASSAN SALEH

Sudanese head of state Omar Hassan Al-Bechir has reorganized the [...]

SURPRISE ATTACK

Malakal was the target of a brief but vicious mortar attack on December 2 followed by close-range fighting with light [...]

OMAR NOUR ALDAYEM

The secretary general of Oumma, the movement headed by former [...]

The International Monetary Fund agreed, on December 7, to reschedule [...]

ARAKIS CLARIFIES TECHNICAL ISSUES

Vancouver-based Arakis has not managed as yet to put together the $300 million that its affiliate State Petroleum needs to [...]

TEMPERS FRAYING AGAIN

An Eritrean foreign ministry report released in Addis Ababa last week accuses Sudan of having trained more than seven hundred [...]