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 [...]

UN STEPS UP INTERVENTION

Leader of the legitimist faction of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), John Garang recently met in London with one [...]

ELECTRICITY RATES SHOULD RISE SAYS ADB

In spite of the series of electricity rate hikes since 1987 in Sudan, the average National Electricity Corporation (NEC) rate [...]

TOM KITT

On his return from a visit in Sudan in April, the Irish minister for foreign affairs proposed that a mission [...]

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 [...]

CHARLES LA MUNIERE

The deputy head of the United Nations humanitarian affairs department [...]

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ADB TO BRIDGE ELECTRICITY GAP

Sudan's National Electricity Corporation (NEC) is expected this month to finish preparing tender documents for a project involving a fifth generator for the North Khartoum power station, a 60 MW unit powered by heavy fuel and scheduled to enter service [.

ARAKIS LAYS OUT PROPOSALS

Arakis Energy is reported to have presented the Khartoum government [...]

DEADLOCK IN ABUJA

After three weeks of negotiations in Abuja, Nigeria, between a Sudanese government delegation and representatives of John Garang's Sudan People's [...]

ELECTRICITY PROJECT GETS ADB LOAN

The African Development Bank group (ADB) is expected to approve, at the beginning of June, two credits for Sudan totalling [...]

MAJID KAMALI

Iran's ambassador in Khartoum was criticized by the director of the American CIA, James Woolsey on April 22, before a [...]

UPDATE ON FLAGGING ABUJA TALKS

In a last ditch attempt to get peace talks out of the stalemate, talks that started in the Nigerian capital, [...]

KAVIRAJ APPADU

An employee of the UNHCR, Kaviraj Appadu, a Mauritian, is [...]

A lieutenant-colonel from Colonel John Garang's SPLA movement hijacked an [...]