Sudan

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 [...]

HOPE FOR PEACE YET

Peace negotiations between a delegation headed by Silva Kir on behalf of Colonel John Garang's SPLA faction, and a Sudanese [...]

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

AND BACK IN ABUJA...

A new round of peace talks between John Garang's SPLA and the authorities in Khartoum is set for April 26 [...]

The World Bank announced on April 20 that it suspended [...]

BATTLES AS PROLOGUE TO NEGOTIATIONS

The forces of the Torit faction of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) led by Colonel John Garang are apparently [...]

REGIME, MAHDISTS AND PEACE

Sudan's former prime minister, Sadiq al Mahdi was arrested on April 5, at his home and in the presence of [...]

OIL PROJECTIONS POINT DOWNWARDS

Arakis Energy Corp based in Vancouver, Canada, that obtained oil exploitation rights on the old Chevron permits (ION N°556) in [...]

ARAKIS REINS IN AMBITIONS

Awarded development rights in December on 170,000 sq.km in Sudan [...]