Sudan

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 [.

WATER SUPPLIES FOR EL FASHER

Sudan's National Urban Water Corporation (NUWC) is to obtain, via the government, a loan of US$23.5 million from African Development [...]

GEORGE CAREY

The visit of the Primate of the Church of England (and archbishop of Canterbury) to southern Sudan at the end [...]

REVAMP FOR TECHNICAL COLLEGES

The African Development Fund has drafted an aid project for technical education in Sudan which might receive a loan of [...]

VIERRI TRAXLER

The United Nations special envoy, who is in charge of [...]

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT SLAMS REGIME

The European Parliament's commission of foreign affairs and security has followed up the appeal launched by its commission for development [...]

DOUBLE-EDGED CONFERENCE

The second Popular Arab and Islamic Conference, held from December 2 to 4 in Khartoum's Hilton under the baton of [...]

AL-WASIQ KAMIR

According to the Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat of December 7, [...]

A MILITARY DELEGATION IN PARIS

A delegation of Sudanese military officers was in Paris this week to meet representatives of France's army staff for an [...]

BOTH SPLA MAY MEET IN NAIROBI

The meeting of reconciliation planned for November 15 in Nairobi for the brotherly enemies of Sudan Peoples' Liberation Army did [...]

DONALD PATTERSON

Outgoing and a happy go-getter, the United States ambassador in Khartoum Donald Patterson for the past eighteen months did not [...]

CHINESE AIR SQUADRON

According to reliable information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, the Sudanese army has taken delivery recently of between fifteen [...]

NEXT ADB LOANS

The November and December board of directors' meetings of African Development Bank (ADB) are expected to examine loan applications for [...]

A "NEW" GOVERNMENT

A new government was set up in Sudan on October 30, following the winding up of the former Revolutionary Command [...]

Fighting has flared recently east of Kaya, in southern Sudan, [...]