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Museveni beats a retreat and al-Bashir takes centre stage

The super-powers have come back onto the diplomatic scene since a peace agreement was signed in stages, obtained with great difficulty from the SPLM of President Salva Kiir Mayardit and the SPLM-IO of the former Vice President and opponent Riek [...] (590 words)

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Martin Elia Lomuro's dubious links with African Union

Al Cardinal mediates between Kiir and Museveni

Sanctions on Juba will be healthy for Kampala's finances

Fighting makes a mockery of IGAD's peace declarations

Will Paris soon be hosting the Sudanese foreign minister?

The civil war just keeps rumbling on

SPLA hunts SPLM-IO down among refugees in Uganda

Deadly clashes between NDM rebels and SPLM-IO

Sisi and Museveni to work together against Muslim Brotherhood

How Khartoum is seeking to mollify Beijing about its debts

Oil talks vital for Kiir Regime's very survival

Troika’s unrealistic Plan for peace negotiations

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Why the UN will struggle to deploy its forces

Gabriel Thokuj Deng new mines minister

Museveni plays both sides in Juba conflict

Kampala looks to Pretoria for support in the Sudanese crises

Imbroglio in the north adds to the imbroglio in the south

Hello Mr Trump? It’s Salva Kiir on the line

The civil wars in a tangle

Why $1 million disappeared in Juba

Why Riek Machar met Museveni

Juba more than ever in danger of bankruptcy

Kiir and Machar losing support and drawn together

Kampala and Nairobi manipulate behind the scenes in Juba

Juba, Yoweri Museveni’s war bounty

UNESCO: Bashir’s war medal?

Riek Machar hires Joe Szlavik as lobbyist

Museveni distrusts Beijing and woos Seoul

UPDF stops training Amisom Somalians

Dinka wage anti-Pagan Amum campaign at UN

How Janet Museveni and Salim Saleh are taking power

Riek Machar talks to the Americans

Why the EU is wooing Issayas and Bashir

Deng intent on saving South Sudan’s Central Bank

All Bechir asked for help by both Russians and U.S

Museveni’s plays both sides of the street

An untenable peace agreement

Ethiopian army goes to help of Riek Machar

Change of lobbyist in Washington

Investigation into $800 million AWOL at the presidency

Growing pressure to sign a peace agreement

The battle to succeed Salva Kiir has begun

Salva Kiir purges the army and the police

In IMF view, a kleptocratic State bordering on bankruptcy

The first collateral damage of the war: the State budget

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