Africa News Update
Sudan: Is the future one state or several?
Sudan’s President, General Ahmed Al-Bashir and South Sudan’s President Silva Kiir met in Addis Ababa on 4th January for talks aimed at resolving their on-going conflict. But this has all happened before, and is likely to happen again, until they come to address the underlying causes of the conflict. Sudan is a country of extreme ethno-cultural diversity with some 80 or more ethnic groups, mostly, territorially-based, whose interests have long been subordinated to those of Khartoum-based elites. Read >
Friday, 25 January 2013
African Arguments, by Seifulaziz Milas*
Sudan: Crackdown on opposition groups continues
Khartum (Sudan) - A number of Sudanese opposition party leaders are in custody following the signing of an accord, dubbed the 'New Dawn Charter', under which they agreed to overthrow the government of President Omar al-Bashir and institute a federal system of government based on democracy, pluralism and the separation of religion and the state. Read >
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)
Sudan: Democracy cannot be achieved with current regime (opinion)
The tendency by the United States and its allies to count on the existing regime in Khartoum to embark on serious reforms towards achieving genuine democracy and stability is illusive. Putting all the eggs in the basket of the current regime is a dangerous gamble. Read >
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
African Arguments, by Hamdan Mohamed Goumaa*
Sudan: Race-based violence and torture
Jalila Khmais Koko is a Nuba woman activist detained eight months ago for calling for peace and helping her peoples fleeing the war in Nuba Mountains to safe places such as the Sudanese capital Khartoum. Read >
Friday, 09 November 2012
Pambazuka News, by Osman Naway
Sudan: Bashir and Kiir fail to reach full deal over contested areas
Khartoum/Wau (Sudan/South Sudan)— Sudan President Omer Al-Bashir and his South Sudanese counterpart Salva Kiir Mayardit managed, after another round of marathon talks on Wednesday, to strike a deal on border security issues but failed to do likewise on contested border regions including Abyei. Read >
Thursday, 27 September 2012
Sudan Tribune (France)
Sudan: Fighting for a free press
Khartoum (Sudan) - In Sudan’s newspaper district in Khartoum East, dozens of people sit beneath the trees sipping tea or reading newspapers. Most are journalists who once worked for the 10 newspapers that were either forced closed by the country’s security services or because of economic constraints that resulted after the government raised printing taxes in an attempt to prevent the media from reporting on anti-government demonstrations. Read >
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Inter Press Servive (IPS), by Zeinab Mohammed Salih
Sudan: Rebel leader says Sudanese 'capable of deposing' Bashir
Juba (South Sudan) — Malik Agar, the leader of the Sudanese rebel alliance, the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), on Tuesday said capabilities of the Sudanese people compounded by the growing networks seeking constitutional reforms and change will "depose" the Khartoum government. Read >
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Sudan Tribune (Sudan)
Sudan: Khartoum protests - beginning of end for Bashir? (analysis)
Khartoum (Sudan) - Student-led demonstrations coupled with growing frustration among sections of Sudan's broader population provide the strongest indications yet of a real push for regime change, analysts say. Read >
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), by Simon Jennings
Sudan: Mission to Juba - the inside story of a man under siege
Juba (South Sudan) - Last week, the low intensity conflict between the new state of South Sudan and the Republic of Sudan escalated into a near full-scale war. On Monday April 10, the Sudanese Peoples’ Liberation Army (SPLA) took control of the strategic town of Heglig from troops loyal to Khartoum. That same day, Khartoum launched a series of air rides, bombing the towns of Jonglei and Heglig. In the ensuing fight, SPLA shot down two of Khartoum’s MIG 29 jets. Read >
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
The East African (Kenya), by Andrew M. Mwenda