Strategic Thinking on East Africa

Construction work is shown in June 2013, at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, near Assosa in the Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia, near Sudan. The dam will have the capacity to produce 6,000 megawatts of electricity and become the biggest hydroelectric power station in Africa.ELIAS ASMARE, ASSOCIATED PRESS By TOM CAMPBELL / Staff columnist The greatest […]

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International Crisis Group Africa Briefing N°11921 Mar 2016 AFP/Ashraf Shazly OVERVIEW There is an ideological vacuum at the heart of Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP), its leaders no longer interested in a radical or reforming Islamist project yet offering no alternative political vision. President Omar al-Bashir’s 2015 re-election signalled a strengthening of the political […]

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Sudan - South Sudan map Reuters March 17, 2016 10:20 AM KHARTOUM—Sudan will close its recently reopened border with South Sudan once again if that country persists in its support for armed rebel groups, presidential aide Ibrahim Mahmoud said on Thursday. Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir ordered the opening of his country’s border with South […]

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From International Crisis Group By Magnus Taylor Leading Sudanese opposition figure Hassan al-Turabi gestures during an interview in Khartoum on 3 October 2012. REUTERS/Stringer Leading Sudanese opposition figure Hassan al-Turabi gestures during an interview in Khartoum on 3 October 2012. REUTERS/Stringer The death of Sheikh Hassan al-Turabi on Saturday marks the eclipse of a radical […]

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Khartoum (HAN) March 6, 2016. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. Prominent Sudanese politician Hassan al-Turabi, a veteran who formed the Popular Congress Party (PCP), has died in Khartoum at the age of 84. Turabi was reportedly working in his office when he fell down and was taken to the hospital. State-run Omdurman TV says the […]

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Sudan Tribune February 4, 2016 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan’s President Omer Hassan al-Bashir Thursday announced the resumption of river transport with the landlocked South Sudan ending a four-year halt decided by Khartoum over security concerns and accusations of support to rebel groups . Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir listen to the National anthem during opening session of […]

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From The International Crisis Group Magnus Taylor, The Africa Report | 25 Jan 2016 In the Horn, where cash-strapped regimes often teeter on the brink of financial survival and alliances are made and broken with bewildering regularity, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has found willing partners as Saudi-Iranian tensions escalate. In the commercial melting pot […]

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Sudan Tribune December 6, 2015 (KHARTOUM) - A senior Sudanese opposition party is warning about impending famine in vast areas of the country, urging for immediate action to contain the situation. National Umma Party ’NUP)’s General-Secretary Sara Nugd Allah speaks in a press conference held in Khartoum on Sunday December 2015 (ST) The National Umma […]

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By Muzdalfa Osman November 19, 2015 (ADDIS ABABA) - Sudan’s government and armed groups Thursday pledged on to exert the necessary efforts to reach a humanitarian cessation of hostilities and work for peace and stability in the whole country. Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid head of the government delegation for the cessation of hostilities in the Two […]

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From Bloomberg Ilya Gridneff African nation allowed use of land, airspace, UN report says Potential violation of UN resolutions if compensation misused Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are paying Eritrea to help fight its anti-Houthi military campaign in Yemen in an agreement that may violate United Nations sanctions against the Horn of […]

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