Archive for Sudan Observatory

• Resources on Darfur: two recent reports and Rob Crilly’s book

  In the last weeks, some new interesting resources on Darfur have been published. While news coming from Sudan's western region tell of a new offensive going on around Jebel Marra and as negotiations in Doha, Qatar, continue to be stalled, Julie Flint's Rhetoric and reality: the failure to resolve t...

• Sudan, presidential campaign on the starting blocks

  The countdown to April elections has officially started when, on January, 27 evening, the National Elections Commission (NEC) closed nominations to presidential and legislative ballots. The presidential campaign can thus start. And it will probably be a real competition. As soon as the nominations ...

• Sudan, a critical year ahead

  On January, 9 Sudan feted the 5th anniversary of the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), inaugurating its last year “in office”. On January, 9, 2011 the CPA will expire and a new, independent South Sudan might see the light through an autodetermination referendum. The year ahead ...

• Resources: Sudan, explosion or implosion?

  Three new briefings about Sudan's conflicts were issued in the last days. Though focusing on different aspects of Sudan's crisis, the reports come to a similar conclusion: within next year Sudan risks to go back to conflict and widespread violence, whether localised or regional (or both). In January...

• Sudan leaders reach deal on disputed referendum

  Source: Reuters, 13 December 2009 The two main parties in Sudan's north and south agreed the terms of a controversial referendum on southern independence on Sunday (Dec. 13), defusing a row that threatened a peace deal in the oil-producing nation. The south's dominant Sudan People's Liberati...

• Tense week in Sudan

  Sources: Reuters, Sudan Tribune, BBC Online US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, condemned on Thursday Dec. 10 the disruption of a peaceful protest outside Sudan's parliament, held in Khartoum on Dec. 7, which brought to the arrest of three top officials in Sudan's People Liberation Movement (...

• Sudan, elections approaching

  Source: Reuters, Sudan Tribune The last parliamentary session before April 2010 elections ended on Nov. 30. As the voters registration goes on for some more days, the main southern party, SPLM, junior partner in the Government of national unity, announced on Dec. 2 that it may field joint candidate...

• Resources: ‘Elections in Sudan: Learning from Experience’

  By Justin Willis, Atta el‐Battahani, Peter Woodward Rift Valley Insitute Full Report In Sudan, an election by secret ballot is currently planned for February 2010. As one of the key elements in a strategy to develop a more equitable, stable and inclusive political settlement in Sudan, the elec...

• What’s next for the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile?

  Sources: BBC News, Reuters Key bases during the two-decades civil war between Sudan's government and the Sudan's people liberation movement/army (SPLM/A), the Nuba Mountains and the southern part of the Blue Nile state are geographically part of North Sudan. While the South and the Abyei region wil...

• South Sudan: violence threatens election process

  Source: Reuters, November 2009 A tribal cattle raid this week left 47 dead in south Sudan, an army spokesman said, the latest in a cycle of fatal clashes between pastoralists. Armed men from the Mundari ethnic group on Monday (Nov.16) launched simultaneous attacks on two villages that belong to th...