Sudan

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 [...]

South African agriculture minister Dr. Kraai Van Niekerk, a member [...]

ARMY DEFEAT IN EQUATORIA

The Sudanese army has suffered several defeats in the area of Mongalla and Terakeka, north of Juba, in Equatoria Province. [...]

HUSSEIN SULEIMAN ABOU SALEH

On his return from China, Sudan's foreign minister told the [...]

The European Investment Bank is providing ECU 16.8 million (US$20.8 [...]

PROJECTS FOR SUDATEL

Sudan's newly-created privately-owned telecommunications company Sudatel is busy opening envelopes with offers from several foreign enterprises, following its last two [...]

RAPPROCHEMENT WITH ZAIRE

According to Sudan's ambassador to Zaire Mohamed Abdel Ghaffar, the Sudanese government and the humanitarian organization Dawa Islamiya, which is [...]

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, [.