Sudan

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has obtained [...]

GOVERNMENT FORCES CHECKED

According to sources close to John Garang's faction of the Sudanese Peoples' Liberation Army, the Sudanese government army's latest offensive [...]

ABDULLAHI AN-NA'IM

The Sudanese lawyer, who is a graduate of Cambridge, Edinburgh and Khartoum Universities and the author of several publications on [...]

PRICE CONTROLS REINTRODUCED

At the end of a 10-hour council of ministers meeting on July 28, the Sudanese government decided to reintroduce price [...]

ALI OSMAN MOHAMED TAHA

Appointed in July 8 to head the new social planning ministry, Ali Osman Taha is the second-in-command in the National [...]

US GIVES 5 ANTI-TERRORIST CONDITIONS

Following the request of the Sudanese embassy in Washington, D.C., the Khartoum government recently dispatched its minister for federal government, [...]

FIGHTING FLARES UP

Fighting broke out again in mid-July in several places in Sudan between rebels and government forces, but also between different [...]

FRENCH OIL STAKES

French oil company Total recently sent a mission to the Sudanese capital to renew its oil permits in the South [...]

DEMAND TO DOUBLE IN 10 YEARS

According to forecasts by the National Electricity Corp. (NEC), electricity demand in the area covered by its integrated network will [...]

NEGOTIATIONS RE-STARTED WITH TOTAL

Sudan is once again negotiating with Total on resumption of work on its permits in the south of the country [...]

The Khartoum government has given Egypt one week, from June [...]

HELLE DEGN

After a European delegation's visit to the South of Sudan, [...]

FRUITFUL DIPLOMACY IN PARIS

The Sudanese presidency's political affairs secretary, Ghazi Salah Eddine was in Paris at the end of last week, for meetings [...]

VIERI TRAXLER

The new United Nations special envoy to Sudan's visit was [...]

AMR MOUSSA

Egypt's foreign minister has been invited by his Sudanese counterpart, [...]

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING IN THE SOUTH

France's Compagnie Générale de Géophysique has won a Ffr 13 [...]

RIVAL SPLA FACTIONS STOP SHOOTING

The dissident SPLA faction, SPLA-United, led by commander Riek Machar signed a cease-fire accord in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi on [...]

FOREIGN CURRENCY CRISIS

Sudan has been without foreign currency for the past six weeks. In a bid to remedy the situation, the government [...]

BATTLES OF THE MOSQUES

Three mosques in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, belonging to fundamentalist sect, Ansar es Sunna, that does not recognize the National Islamic [...]