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TWO LOANS FROM OPEC

The OPEC Fund has made the Sudanese government two loans worth more than US$20 million. The first loan ($15 million) [...]

BANK'S EFFORT COLLAPSES

The Paris-based bank Lazard Freres has failed in its efforts [...]

MOHAMMAD KHEIR AL ZUBEIR

Sudan's minister for economic planning announced on October 19 that [...]

MICHEL RAIMBAUD

Former French ambassador to Mauritania Michel Raimbaud is to take over from Claude Losguardi in Sudan (ION N° 589). The [...]

LOAN THAT NEVER WAS

The Paris-based bank Lazard Frères has had some problems with a credit line of US$35 million it tried to arrange [...]

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THE $300 MILLION QUESTION

Arakis is scheduled by the end of October to resume its drilling programme on Chevron's former Sudanese permits in order to test 29 wells out of the 34 that Chevron had drilled. But financing for the pipeline to Port Sudan, [.

DOUBTS OVER PROJECT

The Canadian company Arakis' plans for developing Chevron's old permits in Sudan (see Page 1) have raised a number of [...]

MEDIATION BY IGADD... OR NONE

The leader of Sudan's National Islamic Front (NIF), Hassan al-Tourabi, has suffered a setback to his hopes of undertaking a [...]

KHARTOUM STARTS MILITARY PREPARATIONS

The approaching dry season in Sudan means that Khartoum is once again making military preparations to attack the Sudanese People's [...]

PEACE IS UP A GUMTREE

Kenyan head of state Daniel arap Moi vainly tried this week to get current peace talks on southern Sudan out [...]

KHARTOUM TOUGHENS ITS STAND

The breakdown of peace talks in Nairobi at the beginning of September has underlined a toughening stand by Khartoum against [...]

LUCRATIVE SPIN-OFF IN CARLOS AFFAIR

The Sudanese government confidently awaits a triple dividend for the services it rendered the French secret service, specifically to general [...]

PLENTIFUL... BUT OH SO PRICEY

Khartoum and all Sudan's major towns have seen the cost of living become absolutely prohibitive even for families enjoying revenues [...]

WARNINGS FROM PAX CHRISTI

In a letter to South Africa's deputy defence minister Ronnie Kasrils dated August 29, the humanitarian organization Pax Christi says [...]

HUSSEIN SULEIMAN ABOU SALEH

During a visit to Zimbabwe this week, Sudan's foreign minister [...]

HUSSEIN ABU SALIH

Sudan's foreign minister officially opened his country's first embassy in [...]

SPLITS GET WORSE AND WORSE

Following the arrest (on July 3) and subsequent release (ten days later) of former prime minister Sadiq Al-Mahdi, he decided [...]

The Sudanese Peoples' Liberation Army headed by colonel John Garang [...]

ARIAB TO DOUBLE OUTPUT

The Ariab Mining Co. has set itself a new production [...]