This analysis of the political economy of oil in Sudan since 2005 finds that governance at national, regional, and local levels has largely failed to manage the damaging political and economic effects of the resource curse. Uncertainty surrounding Khartoum’s oil transfers to the South, negligence and corruption among the Southern elite, and the lack of a peace dividend to offset environmental degradation in oil-bearing regions trace the multiplicity of the resource curse in Sudan. Download
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Renewing the pledge is a publication by a coalition of 26 NGOs including Global Witness from Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the US. The report calls for urgent action from the African heads of state who met shortly after publishing this document at a major summit of the African Union in Uganda from 19-27 July 2010. Ahead of the summit, international Sudan envoys met in Khartoum on 17 July 2010. Download
This analysis illuminates the complexity and changing dynamics of energy politics in the Sudan and the need to develop a nuanced understanding of its external dimension. Although, historically, there have been several layers to the North- South dispute, this paper focuses on energy politics subsequent to the South’s opt-out. Link to publication
This article considers how China’s involvement in and relation to Sudanese politics has developed over the past two decades, by examining two important and inter-related manifestations of China’s changing engagement with Northern and Southern Sudan amidst the coexistence of ongoing conflict in Darfur and a formal North–South peace. Link to publication
Since the Anglo-Egyptian colonial epoch (1898-1956), development in Sudan has mainly been based on large-scale projects, such as the Gezira Irrigation Scheme, Rahad Irrigation Scheme, Jonglei Canal, oil exploitation, Merowe Dam and rain-fed mechanized agricultural schemes. Without doubt, these projects, implemented in the name of the „national interest,‟ have benefited the country immensely. Nonetheless, it is also true that they have been associated with conflicts and displacement as people who feel marginalized resort to arms…
This article considers why the Chinese government’s enduring principle of noninterference has come under increasing and more visible strain in recent years in Sudan. In so doing, it is particularly concerned with the changing nature of China’s role in Sudan. Link to publication
This report (2008) aims to examine and assess the impact of Beijing’s energy policies on the resolution of conflicts, in particular with Sudan and Iran. Download
This report attempts at understanding the events that followed from fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) in the politically disputed town of Abyei in May 2008, in which SAF and SAF supported militia also deliberately killed civilians and carried out massive looting and destruction of the town.
This briefing (2012) provides a number of recommendations to solve disputes over the Abyei territory. Download
This article looks at China’s relationship with Sudan. The author suggest that by far the most significant and consequential area where China has and will continue to impact on Sudan is oil. Link to publication
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