Strategic Thinking on East Africa

REPORT from Sudan Tribune October 18, 2015 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan’s foreign minister Ibrahim Ghandour has told a visiting donor delegation that the government is ready to allow international aid groups to access South Kordofan and Blue Nile provided they don’t offer assistance to the rebels. Ghandour, who met with the donor delegation headed by the director […]

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From The Sudan Tribune August 30, 2015 (KHARTOUM) - At the end of a five-day visit to Khartoum, the United States Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan, Donald E. Booth, has expressed regret for not being able to visit Darfur, saying he hopes to visit the restive region soon. Sudan’s FM Ibrahim Ghandour (R- […]

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Addis Ababa 04August , 2015 (WIC)- Sudan’s first vice-president, Bakri Hassan Salih, vowed that the government would provide the necessary guarantees to secure the participation of the rebel umbrella, Sudan Revolutionary Forces (SRF) leaders in the national dialogue inside Sudan. He said in a press conference on Monday that president Omar al-Bashir has offered religious and […]

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The United Nations on Tuesday denied a media report that Sudanese troops held South African peacekeepers in Darfur hostage so Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir could leave South Africa and avoid being arrested to face genocide charges.   Reuters Bashir, who was due to attend an African Union summit in Johannesburg, left South Africa on Monday […]

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Reuters KHARTOUM: Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir extended his quarter-century in power with a landslide 94.05 percent victory in presidential elections, organizers announced on Monday. The 71-year-old looks set to tighten his grip on the unstable oil producer, facing a divided and diminished opposition that mostly boycotted the poll held earlier this month. Bashir told […]

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Africa Briefing N°11022 Apr 2015 REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah OVERVIEW Violence in the Darfur region of Sudan’s far west continues unabated. Some 450,000 persons were displaced in 2014 and another 100,000 in January 2015 alone, adding to some two million long-term internally displaced persons (IDPs) since fighting erupted in 2003. The government remains wedded to a […]

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A UNAMID peacekeeper interacts with a woman during a daily patrol aimed at protecting newly-displaced persons at the Zam Zam camp near El Fasher, North Darfur. Photo: UNAMID/Hamid Abdulsalam 17 March 2015 – The security and humanitarian situations in the Darfur region of Sudan “deteriorated significantly” over the past year, the head of United Nations […]

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Sudan: The Prospects for “National Dialogue” Crisis Group Africa Briefing N°108 Nairobi/Brussels, 11 March 2015 OVERVIEW Prospects for an inclusive national dialogue President Omar al-Bashir promised in January 2014 are fading, making a soft-landing end to Sudan’s crises more doubtful. Sceptics who warned that the ruling party was unwilling and unable to make needed concessions […]

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