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KHARTOUM MAY WITHDRAW STATE/ARAKIS PERMIT

Khartoum is reportedly on the verge of withdrawing its offer [...]

HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES

The amount of international humanitarian aid required to meet the essential needs of the suffering civilian populations in Sudan is [...]

LAM AKOL ADRIFT

The leader of Sudanese People's Liberation Army-United, Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon, announced on February 28 that the movement's former leader, Lam [...]

Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur will be organizing, in collaboration [...]

OPPOSITION'S REVEALING CLEAVAGE

The debate devoted to the situation in Sudan, organized in Britain's House of Lords by Baroness Caroline Cox (who is [...]

DHOL ACHUIL

The former governor of Buheyrat Province under the regime of general Jaafar Mohamed al Nimeiri was named on February 12 [...]

According to Western intelligence sources, Paris is believed to have [...]

According to officials of international humanitarian organizations, the Sudanese army [...]

GEORGE KONGOR

Sudan's head of state, general Omar el-Bechir, has named general [...]

RIEK MACHAR THENY DHURGON

During a tour of Europe to seek political support and financial aid, the leader of one of Sudan's opposition movements, [...]

ATTACK ON A MOSQUE

Masked gunmen hidden behind a parked Toyota opened fire on a crowd in front of the Thawra Wahid mosque in [...]

NAFI OSMAN ALI NAFI

The name of the head of intelligence services of Sudan's [...]

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SECRET CONTACTS WITH PARIS

Special missions to Paris by Sudanese officials from various sectors (ministerial, military, secret service) have multiplied over recent months. In addition to the Sudanese generals who visited France's defence ministry at the beginning of December (ION N° 601) and the [.

BITTER-SWEET LETTERS

In a recent letter to the chairman of the United Nations Security Council in New York, Eritrea's head of state, [...]

OPPOSITION ON A SICK BED

The conference that Sudan's opposition movement, National Democratic Alliance (NDA), had planned to hold in Cairo at the end of [...]

NEW APPEAL TO TOTAL

A possible resumption of work on Total's oil permits in the Jonglei basin figured on the agenda in fresh talks [...]

KHARTOUM BIDS FOR A REFINERY

Khartoum has asked Arthur D. Little (London), a leading engineering consultancy that specializes in oil processing facilities, to carry out [...]

TRADE MISSION TO PARIS

Following the visit to Paris of a Sudanese military mission (ION N° 601) at the beginning of December, it was [...]

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PLUNGING HEADLONG INTO ISLAMIC ACTIVITIES

Latest in a whole series of similar incidents, the military brush between an armed Islamic group belonging to Jihad Eritrea from Sudan and the Eritrean army last month swept Eritrean-Sudanese relations almost over the brink (see page 2, in this [.