Sudan

SEEING IT THEIR WAY

Once spread right across Africa, Italian cooperative assistance (except to North Africa) has been recycled in recent years into two [...]

An internal note of the European Commission's directorate general for [...]

LESSONS OF A HOSTAGE-GRAB

The seizure on February 8 of eleven members of various international humanitarian organizations (Médecins du Monde, Save the Children, Swiss [...]

ALI OSMAN MUHAMMAD TAHA

Sudanese head of state Omar Hassan al Bechir rejigged his cabinet on February 10 and named Ali Osman Muhammad Taha, [...]

UTHMAN AL SAID

A recent Sudanese cabinet reshuffle by head of state Omar [...]

GEC-ALSTHOM AND SDEM FOR ROSEIRES?

A consortium formed by GEC-Alsthom and SDEM submitted the lowest bid in a tender for the first section of work [...]

KHARTOUM HATES BRUSSELS

The Sudanese government has banned Belgian military aircraft from overflying Sudanese territory and has accused that air force of parachuting [...]

Reacting to the campaign against Sudan by humanitarian organization Amnesty [...]

ALAN FLETCHER GOULTY

Britain's new ambassador to Sudan is expected to be Alan Fletcher Goulty, who has held Britain's second diplomatic slot in [...]

MILITARY STALEMATE AT KAPOETA

Combatant members of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army headed by colonel John Garang, who encircled government army units inside the [...]

AL TAYEB ZEIN AL-ABIDINE

An "intellectual" in the National Islamic Front headed by Hassan al Tourabi and regarded as a moderate person who might [...]

Four international companies have answered the Sudan government's Call for [...]

The organization Amnesty International this week launched a campaign denouncing [...]

Spotlight
COUNTDOWN TO CONFLICT

Ever since peace talks between Eritrea and Sudan in Sanaa (Yemen) failed at the end of December after the Khartoum authorities refused to condemn the Jihad Eritrea (Islamic armed opposition group) which Asmara accuses of destabilizing activities (ION N° 654), [.

IGADD AND THE UNITED NATIONS

Following the breakdown of Yemen's mediation in the Eritrea-Sudan conflict after the Khartoum authorities refused to disassociate themselves publicly from [...]

Ugandan defence minister Amana Mbalazi stated in Kampala on January [...]

INTERIM BALANCE AT KAPOETA

Claim and counter-claim continue to flow from Sudan, with the Khartoum authorities reporting in mid-December that government forces still held [...]

IRAQ SAID TO ENTER PICTURE

One of the obstacles to financing the Arakis-State Petroleum project to develop Chevon's Unity and Heglig discoveries has been lifted [...]

ALL CHANGE

A grand diplomatic shake-out is being whipped up in Khartoum: Sudan's ambassadors in Rome (Abdallah Mohamed Ahmed), Washington (Ahmed Suleiman), [...]