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Jonglei flashpoint
The Khartoum regime was air dropping supplies to rebel militia in South Sudan as its negotiators prepared to sign the 27 September peace agreements with Juba, the United Nations re...
Politics over oil
Another round of talks may stave off hostilities but is unlikely to yield a credible border security agreement by the 22 September deadline
Much hard negotiating lies ahead between Juba and Khartoum after talks restarted on 4 September, following a month's delay for the funeral of Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi and the...
Blaming the outsiders
Economic crisis has fuelled anti-government protest in Sudan but in South Sudan, it has fuelled hostility to outsiders, real and imagined. Police in Jonglei State descend on aid ...
The anti-sanctions race
Negotiations are likely to drag on, despite UN efforts to pressure both Juba and Khartoum and the threat of a return to all-out war
As the 2 August deadline imposed by the United Nations Security Council loomed, Khartoum and Juba vied to be seen as the least obstructive government at their talks in Ethiopia. T...
One year on – unrealistic expectations remain unfulfilled
Despite the high hopes of the nearly 99% of electors who voted for secession in the 2011 referendum, few outsiders expected South Sudan's transition to Independence to go smoothly. Some – including many journalists – sourly predicted the world's 'first pre-failed state'. However, the prospect of a substantial 'peace dividend', with development driven by oil exports and substantial post-war reconstruction assistance, held out the promise of a better future for its war-ravaged and poverty-stricken people. A year later, this promise has clearly not materialised.
At Independence in July 2011, South Sudan had an estimated per capita gross domestic product of over US$1,500, almost twice that of Kenya. The government's 2011 budget was $2.3 bi...
Sanctions threat drives talks
Juba scrambles to regain the diplomatic initiative ahead of a new round of talks on oil and security with Khartoum
Economic and diplomatic pressures will probably push the governments of Juba and Khartoum back to negotiations on oil and border issues before the end of May. This follows the Unit...
Khartoum is fighting on three fronts: a determined Southern army, confident armed oppositionists and a hostile population
When President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir told the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), 'Either we end up in Juba and take everything or you end up in Khartoum and take ever...
A political and military test
Church peacemakers and SPLA troops try to end a complex conflict
Conflict on the border with Sudan may have calmed things in Jonglei, where South Sudan's worst fighting had long been under way. Phase One of the government's Disarmament, Demobili...
War drums sound as the South takes Heglig
Khartoum mobilises against South Sudan and breaks off all negotiations
The seizure of the oil town of Heglig by South Sudan's armed forces on 10 April ratchets up Juba's confrontation with Khartoum's National Congress Party (NCP) regime, which also fa...
The South goes for sovereignty
Juba turns off the oil and turns up the pressure in its fraught negotiations with Khartoum over oil, cash, security and citizenship
Few outside the Juba government had expected it to start shutting down oil production on 22 January. Warnings from the Government of South Sudan had been widely seen as brinkmanshi...
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