Sudan

South African agriculture minister Dr. Kraai Van Niekerk, a member [...]

ARMY DEFEAT IN EQUATORIA

The Sudanese army has suffered several defeats in the area of Mongalla and Terakeka, north of Juba, in Equatoria Province. [...]

HUSSEIN SULEIMAN ABOU SALEH

On his return from China, Sudan's foreign minister told the [...]

The European Investment Bank is providing ECU 16.8 million (US$20.8 [...]

PROJECTS FOR SUDATEL

Sudan's newly-created privately-owned telecommunications company Sudatel is busy opening envelopes with offers from several foreign enterprises, following its last two [...]

RAPPROCHEMENT WITH ZAIRE

According to Sudan's ambassador to Zaire Mohamed Abdel Ghaffar, the Sudanese government and the humanitarian organization Dawa Islamiya, which is [...]

TWO LOANS FROM OPEC

The OPEC Fund has made the Sudanese government two loans worth more than US$20 million. The first loan ($15 million) [...]

BANK'S EFFORT COLLAPSES

The Paris-based bank Lazard Freres has failed in its efforts [...]

MOHAMMAD KHEIR AL ZUBEIR

Sudan's minister for economic planning announced on October 19 that [...]

MICHEL RAIMBAUD

Former French ambassador to Mauritania Michel Raimbaud is to take over from Claude Losguardi in Sudan (ION N° 589). The [...]

LOAN THAT NEVER WAS

The Paris-based bank Lazard Frères has had some problems with a credit line of US$35 million it tried to arrange [...]

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THE $300 MILLION QUESTION

Arakis is scheduled by the end of October to resume its drilling programme on Chevron's former Sudanese permits in order to test 29 wells out of the 34 that Chevron had drilled. But financing for the pipeline to Port Sudan, [.

DOUBTS OVER PROJECT

The Canadian company Arakis' plans for developing Chevron's old permits in Sudan (see Page 1) have raised a number of [...]

MEDIATION BY IGADD... OR NONE

The leader of Sudan's National Islamic Front (NIF), Hassan al-Tourabi, has suffered a setback to his hopes of undertaking a [...]

KHARTOUM STARTS MILITARY PREPARATIONS

The approaching dry season in Sudan means that Khartoum is once again making military preparations to attack the Sudanese People's [...]

PEACE IS UP A GUMTREE

Kenyan head of state Daniel arap Moi vainly tried this week to get current peace talks on southern Sudan out [...]

KHARTOUM TOUGHENS ITS STAND

The breakdown of peace talks in Nairobi at the beginning of September has underlined a toughening stand by Khartoum against [...]

LUCRATIVE SPIN-OFF IN CARLOS AFFAIR

The Sudanese government confidently awaits a triple dividend for the services it rendered the French secret service, specifically to general [...]

HUSSEIN SULEIMAN ABOU SALEH

During a visit to Zimbabwe this week, Sudan's foreign minister [...]