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08KHARTOUM345 | A SNAPSHOT OF SOUTH SUDAN'S CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Southern Sudan Anti-Corruption Commission will roll out its inaugural anti-corruption strategy with USG assistance in late March, 18 months after the Commission's establishment. Anecdotal evidence suggests that GOSS corruption will continue to seriously embarrass the SPLM as [...] | 2008-03-10 07:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM346 | AS UN REACHES JEBEL MOON, SPLINTER EMERGES WITHIN JEM [...] (SBU) After an earlier dispute between the UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) over access to Jebel Moon, West Darfur, a UN team reached the area for a brief yet inconclusive visit to assess the humanitarian situation. UN sources report that the [...] | 2008-03-10 07:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO UN AU SU CD |
08KHARTOUM347 | UMMA PARTY OFFICIAL DENIES AGREEMENT WITH NCP [...] (SBU) On March 6 Emboffs met with Dr. Mariam Al Sadig Al Mahdi, Secretary for Foreign Relations, National Umma Party (and daughter SIPDIS of Umma leader and former Prime Minister Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi). Emboff's asked Dr. Al Mahdi about press reports suggesting that Umma and the National Congre [...] | 2008-03-10 11:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI SU |
08KHARTOUM348 | UMMA PARTY OFFICIAL DENIES AGREEMENT WITH NCP [...] (SBU) On March 6 Emboffs met with Dr. Mariam Al Sadig Al Mahdi, Secretary for Foreign Relations, National Umma Party (and daughter SIPDIS of Umma leader and former Prime Minister Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi). Emboff's asked Dr. Al Mahdi about press reports suggesting that Umma and the National Congre [...] | 2008-03-10 11:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI SU |
08KHARTOUM35 | SUDAN-CHAD TENSIONS FLARE [...] (SBU) Media and the UN reported that Chadian air force planes attacked Chadian rebel camps in Sudan near the villages of Goker and Wadi Radi 35 kilometers south of Geneina in West Darfur state on January 7. This follows Chadian President Deby's statement January 5 that Chad will pursue Chadi [...] | 2008-01-10 08:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM351 | FRANCE, EUFOR ISSUE CONFLICTING STATEMENTS ON FALLEN [...] (SBU) The European Union repatriated the body ofQoldier from the EU peacekeeping force in Chad, EUFOR, on March 7, as French President Sarkozy and EUFOR commander Patrick Nash issued conflicting statements on the events leading to the soldier's death. While Nash apologized to Sudan for his pea [...] | 2008-03-10 14:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO UNSC AU SU CD EU |
08KHARTOUM352 | AEC PLENARY: CONCERN ON ABYEI YIELDS VERIFICATION TEAM [...] (U) Summary: Newly-appointed AEC Chair Ambassador (Sir) Derek Plumbly chaired his first plenary meeting March 4. The most significant agenda item was a discussion of drafting procedures for the AEC's Mid Term Evaluation (MTE) as mandated by the Comprehensive Peace Accord. The meeting also ad [...] | 2008-03-10 14:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
08KHARTOUM353 | TRANSPARENCY AND ABYEI OIL ARE TOP AEC WEALTH SHARING [...] (U) Summary: The Wealth Sharing Working Group (WSWG) coordinated by the US Embassy met March 5 to identify concerns to be addressed in the AEC's Mid Term Evaluation (MTE). The AEC Chairman must present the MTE to President Al-Bashir on or before July 8 according to a "Terms of Reference" doc [...] | 2008-03-10 15:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
08KHARTOUM354 | SUDAN CONSORTIUM PLANNING [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraphs 3 and 4. 2. (SBU) Deputy SRSG Amira Haq and World Bank Country Manager Asif Faiz asked CDA Fernandez March 9 for U.S. assistance with the agenda and venue of the Sudan Consortium, due to take place in Paris May 6-8. According to Haq these [...] | 2008-03-10 15:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM355 | NCP DELIBERATES ON U.S. NON-PAPER [...] C) Summary: In responding to an U.S. non-paper on changed Sudanese behavior which could lead to the possibility of improving U.S-Sudan relations, the NCP is likely to propose confidence-building measures regarding the Sudanese and U.S. Embassies. However the NCP's primary objective is to get o [...] | 2008-03-11 06:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO SU |
08KHARTOUM357 | LIBYA OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS TO RESOLVE DARFUR, CHAD [...] (SBU) The Libyan Government remains open to U.S. ideas for advancing the Darfur peace process and resolving the Sudan-Chad conflict, Libyan Consul General in El Fasher Naji Yousef told Poloff on March 10, 2008. While Tripoli continues to try to broker a peace settlement between the Darfur rebe [...] | 2008-03-11 07:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UN AU SU LY CD |
08KHARTOUM358 | UNAMID FORCE COMMANDER ENGAGES WITH SLA-UNITYUNAMID UNABLE [...] (SBU) As part of his ongoing efforts to engage with all Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signatory factions, AU-UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) Force Commander Martin Luther Agwai traveled March 9 to Al Hosh (N 15 degrees 02'21.9", E 024 degrees 47'56.1"),North Darfur to hold introducto [...] | 2008-03-11 07:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU |
08KHARTOUM359 | USAID AND GOSS OPEN NEW ROADS, LOCAL AUTHORITIES CRITICIZE [...] Summary: On Thursday, March 6 and Friday, March 7 USAID, Consulate General Juba, and the Government of Southern Sudan commemorated the groundbreaking of two new road projects to help rebuild infrastructure in Southern Sudan. The combined projects will cost in excess of $100 million and will c [...] | 2008-03-11 10:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ELNT PGOV PREL SU |
08KHARTOUM36 | FIRST AEC PLENARY OF 2008 UPBEAT [...] (U) SUMMARY: A briefing by the NCP and the SPLM on their recent political deal drew a large turnout to the first AEC Plenary session of 2008 on January 8. However the parties provided only vague details of their agreement. The international coordinators and other observers will have to wait [...] | 2008-01-10 09:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
08KHARTOUM362 | SUDAN WELL-EQUIPPED AND READY TO SUPPORT THE [...] (S) SUMMARY: The GoS told USG officials on 4-5 March that it is well-equipped and prepared to support the transfer of further Guantanamo (GTMO) detainees to Sudan, to include those individuals who are of higher threat to national security than those previously transferred. The National Intelli [...] | 2008-03-11 12:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PHUM PINR PTER PREL SU |
08KHARTOUM363 | NEW JUSTICE MINISTER: "NO POLITICAL PRISONERS IN [...] (C) CDA Fernandez called on new Sudanese Minister of Justice Abdel Basit Sabdarat on March 11. Sabdarat, who has been a cabinet minister or presidential advisor for 18 of the ruling National Congress Party's 19 years in government, said that this was the first time he had ever met an American [...] | 2008-03-11 13:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SCUL SU |
08KHARTOUM367 | POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES IN SUDAN'S OIL INDUSTRY [...] (U) SUMMARY: In separate meetings with econoff the week of March 9, oil industry insiders, former government officials, and petroleum experts appeared positive about the political and economic prospects of the Sudanese oil industry: the Norwegian Petroleum Envoy to Sudan stated that he is " [...] | 2008-03-12 12:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON EFIN ENRG EPET SU |
08KHARTOUM368 | ABEL ALIER SUSPICIOUS OF NORTHERN POLITICIANS, BUT ALSO [...] (SBU) Too many agreements have been dishonored, and northern political parties are eager to open the CPA and block agreement on Abyei, according to former Vice President and current co-chairman of the National Constitutional Review Commission Abel Alier. CDA Fernandez met with the elder states [...] | 2008-03-12 13:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM369 | AL BASHIR ENDORSES BETTER RELATIONS WITH U.S., BLAMES CHAD [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Omar Al Bashir told reporters March 11 that Sudan needs better relations with the United States. In his remarks, he also criticized Chad, saying the country had not respected peace agreements with Sudan and that yet another peace agreement, negotiated by Senegal Preside [...] | 2008-03-13 08:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
08KHARTOUM372 | KING OF EL FASHER ON THE PEACE AND RECONCILIATION COUNCIL, [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Malik (King) of El Fasher said the Peace and Reconciliation Commission in North Darfur has had some success in fostering reconciliation among Arab and African tribes, but lacks major funding from the GoS to carry out its work. The King also spoke about the census and called fo [...] | 2008-03-13 12:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KEDEM PREF SU |
08KHARTOUM374 | PARASTATALS - THE REGIME,S GRAY COMPANIES WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sudanese businessmen, former government officials, and American consultants in Sudan separately told econoff that the Sudanese economy is dominated by parastatal companies connected to the Northern ruling elite. One contact, a National Congress Party adherent, ex-manager of th [...] | 2008-03-13 13:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN EPET PHUM PREL SU |
08KHARTOUM381 | UNIVERSITY POLITICS: NCP DOMINANCE, ISLAMIST CHALLENGES, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In four separate meetings the week of March 9, student political party leaders told emboffs that the National Congress Party is the most organized and successful political party in Sudan's universities. Many opposition contacts cautioned that this NCP dominance is due not to [...] | 2008-03-15 11:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SU |
08KHARTOUM382 | THE CENSUS SHOULD NOT GO FORWARD IN DARFUR, OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Both the Umma Party and SPLM believe that now is not the time to conduct a census in Darfur. Their concerns echo those of civil society in North Darfur - that peace, stability and the return of IDPs to their homes must take place before an accurate and thorough census can go for [...] | 2008-03-15 11:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KEDEM PREF SU |
08KHARTOUM383 | LAND TENSIONS THREATEN SOUTHERN STABILITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Conflict in Sudan has been fueled in many cases by competition over land and other natural resources. Currently, there are no consistent land policies and laws to govern how land is to be allocated and used in Southern Sudan. The control of land is linked to historical "injustic [...] | 2008-03-15 11:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM384 | CENSUS IN DARFUR IN TROUBLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Central Bureau of Statistics office in North Darfur cited many obstacles to carrying out the census. Aside from security, transportation, communication, and logistical concerns, the CBS hasn't received confirmation from the local community, especially the native administrati [...] | 2008-03-16 05:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KEDEM PREF SU |
08KHARTOUM385 | NEW CHADIAN REBEL OFFENSIVE BREWING IN WEST DARFUR [...] (C) A new attempt to overthrow Chadian President Idriss Deby's government is brewing in West Darfur, UN officials, humanitarian workers, and Chadian rebel commanders told Poloffs in El Geneina between March 11 and 13. Though predictions on the start date for the next attempt to topple Deby's [...] | 2008-03-16 10:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS KPKO UN AU SU CD FR |
08KHARTOUM386 | DESPITE DAKAR ACCORD, SPLM AND SLM BRACE FOR [...] (C) Recounting his efforts to press a diffident President Bashir to support the recent Dakar accord with Chad--including a mechanism to monitor violations--Foreign Minister Deng Alor remains concerned that Khartoum will continue to pursue regime change in N'djamena, he told Senior Assistant to [...] | 2008-03-16 14:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN AU SU CD UG |
08KHARTOUM387 | (C) CAIRO TO LOAN $300 MILLION TO SPLA? [...] (C) According to a senior expatriate advisor within the Government of Southern Sudan's Finance Ministry, the Government of Egypt has decided to award a $300 million loan to the Sudanese People's Liberation Army. The MinFin advisor told ConGen staff on March 7 that save for the note of guarant [...] | 2008-03-16 14:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS MARR MOPS SU |
08KHARTOUM388 | VIEWS ON MARCH 1 BORDER SKIRMISHES FROM SOUTH OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Discussions with senior UN and UNMIS officials in Juba and Aweil, in addition to follow-on discussions with various elements of the SPLA, place March 1 skirmishes not in the disputed region of Abyei but south of the Kiir River near Rumaker, Northern Bahr el Ghazal state. UNMIS off [...] | 2008-03-16 15:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS MARR MPOS SU |
08KHARTOUM389 | IDPS REJECT PARTICIPATION IN THE CENSUS AND ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The native administration of sheikhs and umdas in Darfur say that IDPs will not participate in the census nor the elections. They believe that the time is not right to conduct a census or the elections due to the massive displacement of the people of Darfur. Additionally, they [...] | 2008-03-16 15:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KEDEM PREF SU |
08KHARTOUM39 | LOOKING AHEAD ON THE SUDAN AEC [...] (C) Norway's Ambassador to Khartoum, in his capacity as Interim AEC (Assessment and Evaluation Commission) Chairman called AEC working group chairs (US, UK, Norway, Italy, Netherlands) together to survey the way ahead for the Commission over the next few months. UK Ambassador reported on the [...] | 2008-01-11 11:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU UN SU |
08KHARTOUM390 | NCP LEADER TOES THE PARTY LINE [...] (SBU) On Sunday, March 16, CDA Fernandez met with Retired Maj. Gen. Al Fatih Abdoun (and former Governor of Khartoum) in his Khartoum home. Known as a flexible and moderate leader, Abdoun assisted in creating the military support that brought President Al- Bashir to power in his 1989 coup. Abdo [...] | 2008-03-16 15:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM391 | GOSS LETTER TO SECRETARY RICE REQUESTING INDIVIDUAL [...] The text of the enclosed document was recently passed to poloff in Juba, though the letter is not dated. Original will be passed to Jason Small when he visits Juba next week. 2. Begin text: Government of Southern Sudan, (GOSS) Office of the President H.E. Dr. Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Se [...] | 2008-03-16 15:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON SU |
08KHARTOUM392 | DARFUR - UNOFFICIAL SETTLEMENTS NEAR SEKELE PRESENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: New settlements near Sekele (near Nyala, South Darfur) originated in October 2007 as a result of GNU HAC efforts to relocate IDPs who fled Kalma camp following inter-tribal violence in that camp. While the GNU HAC completed the resettlement process, approximately 500 additional fa [...] | 2008-03-16 15:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
08KHARTOUM393 | AEC CHAIRMAN REQUESTS U.S. ASSISTANCE WITH STAFFING FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Steering Committee of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) met March 16 to review a draft outline for the Mid-Term Evaluation (MTE) of the CPA. The MTE is due to be delivered to the Sudanese Presidency by July 9, requiring a robust series of meetings by the AEC's fo [...] | 2008-03-17 05:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
08KHARTOUM395 | 1956 BORDER DEMARCATION: STILL ANOTHER FLASHPOINT [...] (C) SUBJECT: Senior SPLM officials involved in the NCP/SPLM Joint Executive Talks are concerned that forthcoming demarcation of the North/South 1956 border will fuel popularly-led violence that could push the SAF and SPLA in direct conflict across the disputed boundary region. Both parties ha [...] | 2008-03-17 05:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PHUM KDEM MARR MOPS SU |
08KHARTOUM396 | YASIR ARMAN ON USG-SUDAN RELATIONS, ELECTIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: SPLM Deputy Secretary General Yasir Arman has called on the USG to admit that it needs Khartoum as much as it loathes it, and to recognize that in the absence of "meaningful leverage" against the National Congress Party, it must refocus its efforts on "internal mechanisms for chang [...] | 2008-03-17 05:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINS KDEM SU |
08KHARTOUM397 | CHAD: RFC'S ERDIMI PLANS LAND GRAB WHILE OTHER [...] (C) As other Chadian rebel factions conspire to topple President Idriss Deby, RFC leader Timan Erdimi plans to "occupy" as much territory as possible and then negotiate with a transitional government to achieve his political objectives, he told Poloff in Khartoum on March 15. Explaining that r [...] | 2008-03-17 06:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN AU SU CD FR |
08KHARTOUM399 | SLA/MM STUDENTS TO LAUNCH CAMPAIGNS AGAINST THE CENSUS [...] (SBU) SLA/Minni Minnawi (SLA/MM) student supporters reject the census and are organizing campaigns against it at universities in Darfur as well as in SLA/MM political offices. Regarding university politics, the students described NCP harassment including freezing of student body elections at E [...] | 2008-03-17 12:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU |
08KHARTOUM400 | SPLA - DEFENSE WHITE PAPER [...] (SBU) At the beginning of last week, President Salva Kiir finally signed the Defense White Paper (DWP). At this point the DWP has been reviewed and approved by the SPLA military leadership, the GOSS Defense Council, the GOSS Council of Ministers (cabinet equivalent) and the President. The Pre [...] | 2008-03-17 12:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM403 | SUDANESE PRESIDENT TO ATTEND ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT IN [...] (C) Presidential Advisor Dr. Mustafa Othman Ismail confirmed on March 17 to CDA Fernandez that President Omar al-Bashir has accepted an invitation to attend the Arab League Summit in Damascus. Dr. Ismail noted that Sudan doesn't much care about internal political developments in either Lebano [...] | 2008-03-17 14:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE SY SU |
08KHARTOUM407 | AGREEMENT MAY BE NEAR ON ELECTIONS LAW [...] (SBU) The SPLM in Juba currently is considering an NCP/SPLM compromise on the National Elections Law, according to SPLM S-ecretary General and GNU Minister of Cabinet Affairs Pagan Amum. The compromise draft, worked out between Vice President Ali Osman Taha, National Congress Party Assessment a [...] | 2008-03-18 07:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID SU |
08KHARTOUM408 | UNAMID ON POLITICAL AND SECURITY DYNAMICS IN WEST [...] (C) Instability is still prevalent in the corridor north of El Geneina, where fighting over the last month displaced thousands and has left the civilians who remain in the area vulnerable to looting and violence at the hands of Arab militias, the Sudanese military, and the Central Reserve Poli [...] | 2008-03-18 09:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO UN AU SU CD |
08KHARTOUM409 | SUDANESE PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR WARNED ON SUPPORTING [...] (C) Summary: Warned about continued interference in Chad on March 17, Sudanese Presidential Advisor Mustafa Osman Ismail said that Sudan was ready for immediate monitoring of its border with Chad, denied that Sudan supports Chadian rebels and said that the U.S. should press President Deby to [...] | 2008-03-18 13:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS SU CD |
08KHARTOUM41 | AL-SAMANI: NEW EMBASSY COMPOUND POLITICAL ISSUE, NOT SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: In a sometimes tense meting with Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (PDAS) Linda Greenfield-Thomas on January 12, State Minister for Foreign Affairs al-Samani al-Wasila maintained that construction on the new embassy compound (NEC) had been blocked in response to political, bila [...] | 2008-01-13 16:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF SU AU PGOV UN |
08KHARTOUM410 | THERE ARE NEITHER MODERATES NOR HARDLINERS IN THE [...] (C) Summary: The NCP regime is unified and well organized despite its corruption, and the popular characterizations of regime "hardliners" versus "moderates" are overplayed, according to opposition observers who have known individuals in the NCP regime for decades. These opposition members als [...] | 2008-03-18 13:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM411 | FISCAL MONITORING CHAIRMAN REPORTS PROGRESS WITH GNU AND [...] (U) In contrast to his October 24, 2007 briefing for the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) (reftel),Fiscal and Financial Allocation and Monitoring Commission (FFAMC) Chairman Mohammed Osman Ibrahim told Poloff on March 13 that he is now optimistic on cooperation with the Ministry of [...] | 2008-03-19 04:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
08KHARTOUM418 | UFDD/F CALLS ON WEST TO SPONSOR DIALOGUE WITH DEBY [...] (C) The Union des Forces de la Democratie et du Development/Fondamentale (UFDD/F) wants Western governments to sponsor a dialogue between the opposition and the regime of Chadian President Idriss Deby, the movement's commissar for political affairs, Mukhtar Yaya, told Poloff in Khartoum on Mar [...] | 2008-03-19 15:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS AU SU CD |
08KHARTOUM419 | GOSS POLICE CONCEDE PROBLEMS, RESOLVE TO IMPROVE POLICING [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) held a Southern Sudan Police Service (SSPS) Leadership Council Conference in Juba on March 11 to 14 to discuss police, security and justice issues. UN agencies, State Police Commissioners from ten States of Southern Sudan, and Directors of [...] | 2008-03-21 08:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM PREL KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM42 | FOREIGN MINISTER ALOR: NEW MARCHING ORDERS FROM [...] (C) Summary: In a January 12 meeting with Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (PDAS) Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the newly sworn in Foreign Minister (FM) Deng Alor said President Bashir had personally tasked him with taking the lead in improving bilateral relations between Sudan and the United S [...] | 2008-01-13 16:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF SU AU UN PGOV |
08KHARTOUM420 | DONORS MEET WITH SRSG QAZI IN PREPARATION FOR ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to donor's concerns about UN slowness on the Sudanese 2009 elections, SRSG Ashraf Qazi and the Electoral Donors met Tuesday, March 18, to share dates, assumptions and concerns. SRSG Qazi recognized that, as UNMIS works to build Sudan's electoral capacities, key legisl [...] | 2008-03-21 08:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM421 | UNAMID WILL BRING SECURITY BUT NOT A PEACE DEAL, SAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Darfur needs security before traditional leaders can play any role in tribal reconciliation, an indigenous NGO leader and Darfur expert told emboff in two separate meetings in El-Fasher on March 19. Contacts emphasized that the Government of Sudan's recent push for tribal rec [...] | 2008-03-21 08:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SU |
08KHARTOUM422 | USG STRATEGY FOR SUCCESS OF THE SUDANESE CENSUS [...] (SBU) Summary: As long feared by the international community, multiple problems with conducting the census across the South and in Darfur have surfaced in recent weeks, leading to the risk of a serious undercount in these areas and a widespread perception that the census will be inaccurate. N [...] | 2008-03-21 08:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM423 | HASSAN AL-TURABI ON NCP DYNAMICS [...] (SBU) Summary: According to PCP leader Hassan al-Turabi, the ruling National Congress Party lacks any base of popular support and is under stress as it tries to deal with multiple challenges (most of its own creation). Al-Turabi said that President al-Bashir's indecisive leadership compounds [...] | 2008-03-21 10:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SU |
08KHARTOUM425 | BASHIR TELLS ADVISOR THAT THE DAKAR AGREEMENT IS [...] (C) Senior Presidential Advisor Minni Minawi told poloff March 22 that President Bashir had rejected Minawi's proposal to travel to Ndjamena in order to encourage negotiations between President Deby and Chadian rebel Timane Erdimi. Minawi had hoped that his own direct appeals to President Deby [...] | 2008-03-23 11:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM427 | USG ELECTIONS STRATEGY IN SUDAN [...] (C) Free and fair elections in Sudan are a top foreign policy objective for the USG, and it is therefore critical early on to define a policy framework and begin planning in earnest now for the 2009 Sudanese elections. Despite the constant demands for our attention from Darfur and the North-S [...] | 2008-03-23 13:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM428 | LIAR'S POKER: SUDANESE "CALL AND RAISE" ON USG [...] (C) Summary: Sudan's formal response to a USG non-paper raises the hope of progress on some humanitarian and UNAMID deployment issues, considerable flexibility on CPA-related items and also presents unrealistic, maximalist recommendations towards normalizing relations with the United States an [...] | 2008-03-23 15:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ABLD SU |
08KHARTOUM429 | LRA PEACE TALKS TO RESUME IN JUBA [...] (SBU) Summary: Peace talks between the LRA and Government of Uganda will resume in Juba on Monday, March 24. Lead negotiator Riek Machar expects a final implementation agreement to be initialed no later than March 25, and he hopes for a final signing ceremony in Juba on Friday, April 4. End [...] | 2008-03-23 15:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU UG SU |
08KHARTOUM430 | GOSS REGIONAL COOPERATION MINISTER ON IRAN AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of Southern Sudan Minister for Regional Cooperation discussed the SPLM,s concern over a recently revealed &defense pact8 between Tehran and Khartoum, continued SAF manipulation of the Misseriya Arabs, and outward attempts by the SAF to push a military solution to th [...] | 2008-03-23 15:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINS EAID MARR IR MOPS SU |
08KHARTOUM432 | GOSS MINISTER PRESSES FOR U.S. COMMITMENT ON ABYEI DISPUTE [...] (SBU) GOSS Presidential Affairs Minister Luka Biong Deng recently told ConGen Juba PolOff that President Kiir was struck by the frank nature of Kiir's meeting with with Special Envoy Richard S. Williamson. Deng noted that Kiir was "relieved by the clarity of the message." Deng himself was l [...] | 2008-03-24 04:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS KDEM SU |
08KHARTOUM434 | UNAMID IS ITS OWN WORST ENEMY ON DEPLOYMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: For at least the second time in four months, UNAMID leadership in El Fasher has attempted to use logistical considerations as an excuse for delaying deployment of the peacekeeping force in Darfur. The latest attempt, articulated by the Chief of Planning, was in direct response t [...] | 2008-03-24 05:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM435 | FOREIGN MINISTER PROMISES SWIFT ACTION ON [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Deng Alor agreed to the immediate visa issuance of US Military Observers requested by UNAMID, and promised rapid progress on other visas and on security measures. He also will be raising the issue of NEC containers with President Al-Bashir in the next two days. Al [...] | 2008-03-24 11:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | SU KPKO ABLD AMGT ASEC PGOV PREL |
08KHARTOUM437 | UNAMID FORCE COMMANDER'S VISION OF DEPLOYMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A March 24 conversation with UNAMID Force Commander (FC) Martin Luther Agwai revealed the depth of the chasm between the vision on the ground in El Fasher and at UN Headquarters in New York of UNAMID's short-term deployment plan. Like other UNAMID officials (reftel),the FC cit [...] | 2008-03-25 07:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM438 | UNAMID - A VIEW FROM RURAL NORTH DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A March 24 visit by emboffs to UNAMID camps in Sector North revealed that UNAMID troops can make a difference on the ground as local populations trust UNAMID with their security concerns. Nonetheless, discussions with UNAMID contacts in Um Kadada and Shangil Tobai also reveale [...] | 2008-03-25 08:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM442 | BASHIR WILL REPORTEDLY APPROVE NEC CONTAINER [...] (C) Summary: President Al-Bashir told his Foreign Minister on March 25 that he is willing to authorize the release of NEC containers the same day the U.S. Administration "eases up on pressure on Sudan's diplomatic missions in New York and Washington." Alor complained about the lack of SPLM inp [...] | 2008-03-26 07:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | SU ABLD AMGT ASEC PGOV PREL |
08KHARTOUM448 | ALLEGED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST LAM AKOL DEBUNKED [...] (SBU) An accidental encounter between cattle-rustlers and a motorcade convoy belonging to former Sudanese Foreign Minister Lam Akol has sparked a press battle of conspiracy theories and alleged assassination plots. Media spin to date has cleaved along "true SPLM" and "former SPLM" lines, wit [...] | 2008-03-26 14:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM452 | JEM'S CHIEF NEGOTIATOR ON THE CENSUS, PEACE PROCESS, AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement's (JEM) Chief Negotiator, Ahmed Tougod, told emboff by satellite phone on March 26 that JEM rejects the upcoming census, the AU-UN's approach to the peace process, and bilateral negotiations with the Government of Sudan (GoS). To [...] | 2008-03-27 08:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM453 | REARRANGING DECK CHAIRS ON THE TITANIC: JMST [...] (C) Poloffs met March 25 with the UN Joint Mediation Support Team's (JMST) newly-appointed Chief of Staff Yasir Sabra to discuss the stalled Darfur peace process and JMST plans to restructure its operations and pursue modest "confidence building measures" with the parties in advance of a more [...] | 2008-03-27 08:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO UN AU SU CD |
08KHARTOUM454 | UNAMID TRIES HARDER WHILE DARFURIS FUME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: March 25 visits to two UNAMID camps in Darfur revealed that UNAMID troops, while bringing much needed relative security to their immediate areas of control, currently lack the troops and equipment to be in some of the most operationally-important areas. The visits also reveale [...] | 2008-03-27 08:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM459 | MFA APPROVES USE OF NON-DIPLOMATIC LICENSE PLATES [...] (SBU) MFA Protocol Director Ambassador Ali Yusuf called in CDA Fernandez and the UK Ambassador March 27, 2008 to advise us that both the US Embassy and the UK Embassy had been approved by the Sudanese Government to use non-diplomatic license plates for both official vehicles and personal vehicl [...] | 2008-03-27 14:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AMGT KSEC EAID SU |
08KHARTOUM461 | EASING "IMPOSSIBLE LIFE" FOR SUDANESE DIPLOMATS IN [...] (C) Summary: The Sudanese Foreign Ministry's key administrator confirmed that Sudan is willing to allow NEC construction to resume and containers shipped in reciprocity to "easing up on pressure on Sudan's diplomatic missions" in the U.S., as promised recently by President Al-Bashir. This mea [...] | 2008-03-30 13:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | SU ABLD AMGT ASEC PGOV PREL |
08KHARTOUM462 | DARFUR: HAC INTERROGATES AMCIT HUMANITARIAN WORKER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During the week of March 10, a Korean-American employee of the American Jewish World Service, visiting El Fasher, North Darfur, was questioned by officials of the Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) for possible links to a Darfur rebel group which has opened an office in Israel an [...] | 2008-03-30 13:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASO APER CASC PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI SU |
08KHARTOUM463 | NORTH DARFUR'S ARABS: PLAYING THE VICTIM, WANTING A SEAT AT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 27, Darfur's northern Arab tribal leaders told emboff that they are victims that should be included in any negotiations on Darfur's future. In separate meetings the week of March 23, UN staff, local NGOS, and leaders from other ethnic groups emphasized that many of D [...] | 2008-03-30 13:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM464 | NORTH DARFUR'S ECONOMY - UNAMID GIVES A BOOST TO A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Secretary General of North Darfur's Chamber of Commerce, Rashid Mekki, told econoff on March 26 that the presence of UNAMID has given a small boost to the region's struggling economy, particularly the construction, real-estate (with land prices increasing twenty times in f [...] | 2008-03-30 13:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO ECON AU EFIN SU |
08KHARTOUM466 | AEC TO URGE SPECIAL SESSION ON ABYEI [...] (C) Newly installed Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) chairman Sir Derek Plumbly met with AEC working group chairs (UK, Norwegian, Italian and Dutch Ambassadors plus CDA Fernandez) on March 30 to discuss a more aggressive AEC stance on political issues and to outline a common agenda fo [...] | 2008-03-31 07:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM469 | JUST ANOTHER DAY FOR JEM IN JEBEL MOUN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In two separate conversations on March 28 and 29, representatives of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) claimed it was business as usual for them in their struggle against the Government of Sudan (GoS) and in their "dedicated quest" toward negotiations. Political leadershi [...] | 2008-03-31 14:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM471 | CHINESE ENGINEERS WAIT FOR THEIR MATERIALS; LACK OF WATER [...] (SBU) Summary: Egypt will accept deployment of its infantry battalion in the hopes that its second battalion might be accepted at a later date. UN contractors are refusing to transport Chinese prefabricated housing units to the Nyala super-camp because UN payment offered for transport is too l [...] | 2008-03-31 14:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM474 | NAFIE COMPLAINS OF PERCEPTION PROBLEM IN DARFUR [...] (C) Summary: The situation in Darfur is better than what is being reported, Presidential Advisor and NCP leader Nafie Ali Nafie told CDA Fernandez during a meeting March 31. Nafie blamed international NGOs for distorting the image of what is happening in Darfur said that if the international c [...] | 2008-04-01 05:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM476 | SPLM EL FASHER REPS GIVE MIXED VIEWS ON DARFUR REBEL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In two separate conversations on March 30 and 31, El Fasher representatives of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) gave mixed messages on prospects for unifying Darfur rebels in an as-yet undated second round of talks in Juba. One group, chaired by an Acting Secretary [...] | 2008-04-01 09:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM477 | DARFUR IDPs PROTEST CENSUS IN ABU SHOUK CAMP [...] (U) SUMMARY: Multiples sources confirmed to emboffs that internally displaced persons in Abu Shouk camp near El-Fasher, North Darfur organized a protest on March 31 in opposition to the upcoming Sudanese census. Although protests are common in Darfur's many IDP camps, this is the first prot [...] | 2008-04-01 09:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM48 | SOUTHERN SUDANESE CONCERNED ABOUT CHINESE BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Summary: On Friday, January 11, CG Datta paid a courtesy call on George Justin Achor, Undersecretary in the Ministry of Presidential Affairs. Their one-hour discussion covered a wide range of topics, including the upcoming CPA celebrations in Wau, the LRA, the state of the CPA, the need [...] | 2008-01-14 15:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM480 | SUDANESE DEFENSE MINISTER: WE WANT A BETTER [...] (C) Summary: In a surprising conversation after a two year boycott, Sudanese Defense Minister Abdel Rahim Hussein told CDA Fernandez that Sudan was strongly in favor of a better relationship with the United States. He gingerly accepted that "mistakes were made" in Darfur, called for greater Am [...] | 2008-04-01 15:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM481 | SUDAN - SURGE IN RETURNS EXPECTED PRIOR TO CENSUS [...] In a March 27 meeting in Khartoum, a UN Mission in Sudan Returns, Reintegration, and Recovery (UNMIS RRR) official identified a new and potentially troubling trend of return convoys organized by the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS). According to UNMIS RRR, the first GOSS-organized movement [...] | 2008-04-01 15:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
08KHARTOUM482 | SPLM SG ABDUL AZZIZ ON STRENGTHENING THE PARTY AND [...] (C) Summary: SPLM Deputy SG Abdul Azziz al Helou outlined his plans to strengthen the party's organization to CDA Fernandez, including training cadres, augmenting offices in the North, and developing a clear, consistent communications strategy, including its own media outlets. The SPLM hopes [...] | 2008-04-01 16:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | POL PREL EAID AU SU |
08KHARTOUM484 | SPLM SG ABDUL AZZIZ ON STRENGTHENING THE PARTY AND [...] (C) Summary: SPLM Deputy SG Abdul Azziz al Helou outlined his plans to strengthen the party's organization to CDA Fernandez, including training cadres, augmenting offices in the North, and developing a clear, consistent communications strategy, including its own media outlets. The SPLM hopes [...] | 2008-04-02 05:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | POL PREL EAID AU SU |
08KHARTOUM485 | JMST'S SAM IBOK ON DARFUR PEACE PROCESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 1 AU Chief Mediator of UNAMID,S JMST San Ibok briefed senior UNAMID representatives on the Darfur peace process as part of the two-day "UNAMID Brainstorming on DPA." Ibok highlighted that of the five major rebel movements, only two (SLA-Unity and the URF) have indic [...] | 2008-04-02 13:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU |
08KHARTOUM486 | UNAMID LEADERSHIP DEBATES DARFUR SECURITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In one of the most inconclusive sessions of the two-day internal UNAMID brainstorming session on the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) and Related Issues, UNAMID leadership on March 31 made myriad excuses for UNAMID,s performance to date without highlighting any relative successes o [...] | 2008-04-02 13:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD PGOV |
08KHARTOUM5 | JEM REPRESENTATIVES ARRESTED IN EL FASHER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 30 Government of Sudan (GoS) security forces surrounded a house full of Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) members in El Fasher and arrested six JEM members, including the JEM Ceasefire Commission (CFC) representative GEN Mohammed Basher Mohammed. The United Nations [...] | 2008-01-02 10:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU UNSC CD |
08KHARTOUM501 | CHADIAN REBELS: WEST CAN FACILITATE DIALOGUE OR [...] (C) One faction 'c2MwCQ$Q outbreak of a renewed offensive to topple him. According to UFDD/F President Abdelwahid Aboud, the three movements in the AN have settled on a joint structure, with Mahamat Nouri as the political chief. He said the recent attack on Ade was the opening salvo of a new c [...] | 2008-04-03 15:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CD SU |
08KHARTOUM502 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT LIMITATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNAMID Chief of Planning informed FieldOff on April 2 that "there will be no new infantry battalions coming in this year to UNAMID" beyond those that are currently planned. Instead, he stated UNAMID would be prepared to receive the Egyptian and Ethiopian battalions and the enabli [...] | 2008-04-03 16:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM503 | GOS FLEXES ITS MUSCLE IN DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Within the last two weeks, there are indications that the Government of Sudan (GoS) is flexing its muscle in Darfur. Signs of this include: three firefights between Arab militias/janjaweed and SLM-Minnawi members in the center of El-Fasher; several Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) p [...] | 2008-04-03 16:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM506 | LITTLE PROGRESS ON DEMOBILIZATION AND DISARMAMENT [...] (C) Summary: State Minister of International Cooperation (and SPLM member) Elias Wakoson told CDA Fernandez that Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) efforts have fallen short due to the availability of arms and the lack of dispute resolution alternatives. He said the lack of D [...] | 2008-04-04 11:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU |
08KHARTOUM507 | ABYEI'S MISERIYYA FEAR AND DISTRUST BOTH THE NCP [...] (C) Summary: The Miseriyya Arabs of Southern Kordofan and Abyei both fear and distrust the National Congress Party (NCP) and Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in the political struggle on Abyei, worrying that they will pay the ultimate price in a larger struggle. Seeing their way of lif [...] | 2008-04-04 11:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI |
08KHARTOUM509 | DUP NEGOTIATES ALLIANCE WITH NCP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Poloffs spoke April 3 with Tag El-Sir Mohammed Salih, Deputy Secretary General of the Democratic Unionist Party'S (DUP) Mirghani faction. Salih confirmed that elderly DUP leader Mohammed Osman Al-Mirghani will soon return to Khartoum from Cairo despite alleged threats against h [...] | 2008-04-06 05:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI SU |
08KHARTOUM517 | UNMIS DDR PROGRAM TO REQUEST FUNDING AT SUDAN CONSORTIUM IN [...] (SBU) At a meeting of the AEC Security working group April 2 UNMIS DDR Chief Adrian Verheul described plans for an April 9 high-level roundtable meeting in Khartoum of UN officials, donors and GOS officials to develop comprehensive DDR program. Verheul plans to follow this up with a request fo [...] | 2008-04-06 07:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM518 | BALANCING ACT - UNAMID PUBLIC AFFAIRS WALKS TIGHTROPE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 2, Shereen Zorba and Ali Hamati, of UNAMID's Public Information Office in El Fasher, told emboffs that they feel both external pressure from the Government of Sudan (GoS) and a degree of internal marginalization within UNAMID itself. Most notably, Zorba reported that st [...] | 2008-04-06 08:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SU KPKO UNSC |
08KHARTOUM519 | GOSS MINISTER KWAJE ON ABYEI BORDER COMPROMISE, LRA TALKS, [...] (SBU) Summary: On the evening of April 1, CG Datta was invited to a GoSS dinner in honor of the visiting South African Foreign Minister. At that dinner, Datta had a long discussion with Samson Kwaje, GoSS Minister of Agriculture and prominent player in the SPLM, that touched on an NCP offer on [...] | 2008-04-06 08:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI SU UG |
08KHARTOUM52 | FINANCE MINISTER REFUSES TO RELEASE NEC CONTAINERS [...] (C) Summary: GOS Finance Minister Zubair Ahmed Al-Hassan told visiting PDAS Linda Thomas-Greenfield that he will not authorize the release of the containers for the New Embassy Compound unless the Embassy pays the customs duties and demurrage fees, due to the deteriorating relationship between [...] | 2008-01-15 12:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM524 | SPLM'S EDWARD LINO IN ABYEI: ESCALATING TENSIONS, [...] (C) Summary: According to SPLM-appointed Abyei Administrator Edward Lino, the NCP is ratcheting-up tension in Abyei by sending SAF and police reinforcements to the region, and by seeking to incite Misseriya herdsmen against the Ngok Dinka. The Misseriya have resisted this ploy and Lino hope [...] | 2008-04-06 11:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID SOCI MOPS SU |
08KHARTOUM529 | FM ALOR WARNS "THIS WEEK COULD BE DECISIVE" ON [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Deng Alor warned that April 2 discussions on Abyei between the National Congress Party (NCP) and Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) regressed and the next meeting on April 9 could be decisive. He also warned of SPLM plans to aggressively challenge Northern [...] | 2008-04-07 06:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM53 | DSRSG ZERIHOUN ON ABYEI, DARFUR POLITICAL PROCESS [...] (SBU) Meeting with DCM Powers and SPG Director Lauren Landis on January 13, the UN's Deputy Special Representative for the Secretary-General Taye Zerihoun urged all parties to maintain focus SIPDIS on the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) as it enters the third year of its six year transit [...] | 2008-01-15 12:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AU UN SU |
08KHARTOUM536 | AHMED HAROUN, DENG ALOR, AND PAGAN AMUN NEGOTIATE [...] (C) CDA Fernandez and polchief entered Cabinet Minister Pagan Amun's office April 6 and encountered not only Amun, but also Foreign Minister Deng Alor and State Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and ICC indictee Ahmed Haroun huddled over a map of the oil-rich contested Abyei region. Alor and [...] | 2008-04-07 08:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM537 | FORMER DARFUR GOVERNOR ON PEACE PROCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Former defense minister and former governor of North Darfur Ibrahim Suleiman Hassan told poloff that now is the time to push for peace in Darfur. Hassan believes peace is achievable if the U.S. pushes Sudan to reach deals with the Darfur rebels and Chad. He also said the U.S. s [...] | 2008-04-07 14:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN SU CD |
08KHARTOUM538 | GOS BORDER INTELLIGENCE FORCE SPARKS GUNFIRE IN EL FASHER [...] (SBU) On April 6 at approximately 1330, United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) in El Fasher, North Darfur, warned that "groups of combatants from the GoS Military Camp intend to cause problems in the market area, due to unsatisfactory welfare conditions." A group of Border I [...] | 2008-04-07 14:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU |
08KHARTOUM539 | POSSIBLE "POLIITICAL ASSASSINATION" IN EL-FASHER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 4 at approximately 20:00 gunmen allegedly affiliated with the janjaweed Border Intelligence Unit shot and killed Suliman Ishaq Korayna Daoud, a member of the Darfur Forum and leader of the SLA-Peace Wing (former rebel group which threw in its lot with the Khartoum regim [...] | 2008-04-07 14:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SU KPKO UNSC |
08KHARTOUM540 | ABYEI: GOSS-SPONSORED RETURNS UPDATE [...] On April 2, USAID staff visited a reception center in Abyei town that had received approximately 3,000 Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS)-sponsored returnees from Khartoum. According to UN Mission in Sudan Return, Reintegration, and Recovery (UNMIS RRR) staff, the returnees arrived with house [...] | 2008-04-07 14:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
08KHARTOUM541 | "EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF" - A NYALA SECURITY UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Discussions with United Nations and local representatives in Nyala, South Darfur, reveal a complex picture of security in this Darfur state, where attacks against humanitarians, intertribal fighting and banditry constitute the main threats to stability. END SUMMARY. TARGETED [...] | 2008-04-08 06:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO KSEC SOCI AU SU |
08KHARTOUM542 | SPLA DEFENSE WHITE PAPER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The long-awaited SPLA Defense White Paper provides a concise overview of SPLA's mission and objectives, while highlighting capacity issues and a framework to tackle them. The challenge will be in its implementation - the document codifies the military's weaknesses that require s [...] | 2008-04-08 14:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM543 | UNMIS GRANTED 14-DAY AUTHORITY TO PATROL OUTSIDE OF ABYEI [...] (U) On April 7, UNMIS Force Commander LTG Jasbiri Singh Lidder announced that both Sudan's National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) have granted UNMIS Authority to patrol freely within the Abyei area for 14 days. Previously, UNMIS had been restricted to th [...] | 2008-04-08 14:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO UN SU |
08KHARTOUM547 | AEC PLENARY: DISAGREEMENT OVER ABYEI AND CENSUS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) met in plenary session April 8. Highlights included disagreement by the two sides over an Administrator for the Abyei area, and over inclusion of questions on ethnicity and religion in the upcoming census. CDA Fernandez briefed on h [...] | 2008-04-09 15:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
08KHARTOUM549 | POSSIBLE SPLM-RIZEIGAT ALLIANCE IN SOUTH DARFUR? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In meetings in Nyala with emboffs on November 7, multiple political leaders reported that the Arab (Baggara) Rizeigat tribe had created an alliance with the SPLM. However, on November 7, the Nazir of the Rizeigat denied any association with the SPLM, scoffing at the idea and [...] | 2008-04-10 11:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU |
08KHARTOUM555 | ABDUCTEE RETURNS [...] (SBU) Meeting with Poloff on April 8, UNICEF Child Protection Officer Viktor Nylund described the recent activities of the Committee on the Eradication of Abduction of Women and Children (CEAWC) as "limited" and "disorganized." Formed in 1999 within the Government of Sudan's (GoS) Ministry of J [...] | 2008-04-10 11:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM556 | SPLM ROLLS OUT BROAD DARFUR PLAN AND REQUESTS DONOR FUNDS [...] (SBU) The SPLM has developed a multi-track plan to effect resolution of the Darfur crisis. Though lacking in operational detail, the plan includes having SPLM representatives visit rebel groups and civil society in all three Darfur states, working with the NCP to develop a GNU approach to the [...] | 2008-04-10 11:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM557 | UPDATE ON NORTH DARFUR SECURITY SITUATION [...] (SBU) Following the shooting in El Fasher's market April 6 perpetrated by Arab janjaweed militia (reftel),armed militia members re-entered the market later that same day and engaged GoS forces there while attempting to loot the Bank of Khartoum. Shots were heard again between 0030-0100 April [...] | 2008-04-10 13:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU ASEC |
08KHARTOUM559 | SUDANESE LEADERS COMPLAIN ABOUT FOREIGN INFLUENCE [...] (SBU) Speaking at a March 31 to April 1 workshop "Foreign Presence and its impact on National Sudanese Security" organized by the National Assembly Committee on security and Defense, National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) Chief Salah Abdullah Muhammad, aka Salah Ghosh, called on the [...] | 2008-04-10 13:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM560 | ARMING LOCAL EMBASSY GUARDS AGAIN RAISED WITH MFA [...] (C) As Embassy begins process of changing most vehicles' plates from diplomatic to regular license plates this week (reftel b),CDA Fernandez raised the outstanding issue of Sudanese Government permission for unarmed local Embassy Khartoum guards to be armed with defensive weapons while on off [...] | 2008-04-10 14:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | SU AMGT ASEC PGOV PREL |
08KHARTOUM563 | FM DENG ALOR ON ROME, ABYEI, AND "COLD" RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Sudan is likely to make some concessions on UNAMID deployment at the bilateral talks in Rome, such as agreement on the Thai and Nepalese troop contributions, FM Deng Alor advised CDA Fernandez in a meeting April 10. However Alor cautioned that the ruling National Congress Party (N [...] | 2008-04-11 11:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM564 | MINAWI ON DIVIDED CHADIAN SUPPORT FOR REBELS, [...] (C) In a wide-ranging conversation on April 12, Senior Assistant to the President Minni Minawi discussed the emergence of two competing streams of Chadian support for Darfur's rebel movements--one led by Dausa Deby and focused on recruiting SLM fighters to augment the URF--and another led by I [...] | 2008-04-13 12:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU CD |
08KHARTOUM566 | SURPRISE CENSUS DELAY BY SPLM EXPOSES INTERNAL FISSURES [...] (SBU) Just one day after GoSS President Salva Kiir Mayardit publicly supported the upcoming national census and urged all Southern Sudanese to participate in it, the GoSS Council of Ministers, led by Kiir, voted to unilaterally "postpone" the census in Southern Sudan. GoSS officials cited a la [...] | 2008-04-14 04:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM567 | URF ANNOUNCES FINAL CONSOLIDATION [...] (SBU) Four months after the close of SPLM-hosted Darfur movement consolidation talks in Juba, the United Resistance Front (URF) has announced its final consolidation. The coalition represents five factions that includes Massaleit and Arab representatives but is dominated by Zaghawa JEM/Collect [...] | 2008-04-14 05:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS PREL PGOV SOCI EAID SU AU |
08KHARTOUM568 | WE NEED A CEASEFIRE COMMISSION, SAYS FRUSTRATED DPA [...] (U) SUMMARY: On April 9, three members of SLM-Free Will (SLM-FW) informed emboffs about recent Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) bombings in their areas of control in North Darfur, emphasizing that there is no mechanism for them to report these incidents, since the Ceasefire Commission (CFC) remains [...] | 2008-04-14 06:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM569 | NCP ACCUSES SOUTH OF VIOLENCE AGAINST NORTHERNERS [...] (U) On April 8, several newspapers in Northern Sudan published stories highlighting supposed escalating violence against Muslim Northerners living in the South. GNU Vice President Taha's public remarks about the same issue several days earlier were also widely featured in both the local Northe [...] | 2008-04-14 07:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI KCRM KPKO SU |
08KHARTOUM570 | UNAMID POLICE DEPLOYMENT [...] (SBU) UNAMID Acting Chief of Police Administration Ralf Gehling told poloff April 8 that the second 140-officer UNAMID Formed Police Unit (FPU),from Nepal, is poised to deploy in late April. The Nepalese FPU, the third non-African UNAMID unit after the Chinese engineers and the Bangladeshi F [...] | 2008-04-14 07:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM571 | FFAMC CHAIRMAN UPBEAT ON CPA IMPLEMENTATION AT AEC SESSION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Dr. Mohammed Osman Ibrahim, Chairman of the GOS's Fiscal and Financial Allocation and Monitoring Commission (FFAMC),spoke to a special plenary session of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) April 10, updating a report he presented last October (REFTEL). Most oil re [...] | 2008-04-14 07:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
08KHARTOUM573 | JANE HOLL LUTE PREVIEWS MESSAGE TO UNSC ON DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. United Nations outgoing Under-Secretary-General in the Department of Field Support (DFS) Jane Holl Lute said that the only way for the UN to deploy the bulk of UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) forces in 2008 was with the parallel provision of enabling assets, a point [...] | 2008-04-14 08:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM574 | RARE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN GOS, SLA/ABDULWAHID AS FIGHTING [...] (SBU) In a departure from the unofficial ceasefire between the Sudanese Government and the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM)/Abdulwahid, three separate confrontations have erupted between their forces in recent days. The first two rebel attacks occurred in East Jebel Marra on April 9 and 11 and [...] | 2008-04-14 10:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM576 | CHAD: UFDD, FSR'S DIFFERING VIEWS ON NEGOTIATIONS [...] (U) This message includes an action request. Please see para. 7. --------------------------------------------- ---------- UFDD: Negotiations with Political Opposition, Observers --------------------------------------------- ---------- 2. (C) In separate conversations, representatives fro [...] | 2008-04-14 14:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU CD SU LY |
08KHARTOUM578 | U.S. AMBASSADORS FUND FOR CT -- PROPOSAL FOR KHARTOUM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Below is Embassy Khartoum's submission for the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Counterterrorism. The proposed project would take place at the Spring Youth Center in Omdurman, the historic capital and working-class hub of the Khartoum metropolitan area. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) BACKG [...] | 2008-04-15 07:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EFIN KCRM KPAO PTER KHLS AEMR SU |
08KHARTOUM582 | MFA OFFICIAL COUNSELS "TANKS MORE LIKELY THAN [...] (C) In the midst of a wide-ranging discussion on violence in Darfur (reftel A) on April 13, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under-Secretary Mutriff Siddiq, a regime insider and former intelligence officer (and also in charge of the UNAMID deployment file for the GOS),asked CDA Fernandez "why aren' [...] | 2008-04-15 10:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | SU AMGT ASEC PGOV PREL |
08KHARTOUM584 | SPLM DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL OPENS DARFUR OFFICES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: SPLM Deputy Secretary General Yassir Arman announced the establishment of a SPLM political office for North Darfur on April 12. Local government leaders, including the Wali of North Darfur, opposition parties' representatives, NCP members, and rebel groups such as JEM/Peace Wing [...] | 2008-04-15 12:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM585 | NO PROGRESS ON JMST CHIEF MEDIATOR; POSSIBLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In two meetings with poloffs on April 14, the AU's Chief Mediator of the JMST, Sam Ibok, stated that there are no promising candidates for the position for UNAMID's Chief Mediator now that Mohamed Sahnoun has declined the job. Ibok also stated that he would be leaving his posi [...] | 2008-04-15 12:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU |
08KHARTOUM59 | FORGING A STRATEGY TO ELIMINATE FGM IN SUDAN [...] (SBU) The National Council for Children's Welfare (NCCW) in Sudan held a conference in late December 2007 to announce its strategy for eliminating female genital mutilation (FGM),or female circumcision. UNICEF and PLAN Sudan also attended, as did Dr. Samia Ahmed Mohamed, Minister of Social Wel [...] | 2008-01-16 09:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SU |
08KHARTOUM591 | UNFPA FIELD OFFICER OPTIMISTIC ON CENSUS [...] (SBU) UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Head of Office in Darfur Dr. Ezizgeldi Hellenov told poloff on April 15 that UNFPA will do its best to conduct the census in Darfur. He said that the one-week delay in conducting the census has left his field offices with two problems: first, making sure questi [...] | 2008-04-16 07:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM598 | ROME BILATERAL MEETING TRUMPETED IN PRO-REGIME KHARTOUM [...] (SBU) Khartoum pro-regime daily Akhbar al Youm headlined April 17 on page one the Sudan-US talks in Rome, prominently announcing "details of the talks on Sudanese-US relations on their first day." The article states that "today the two sides will conclude important talks for developing bilatera [...] | 2008-04-17 09:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM6 | INCOMING FOREIGN MINISTER DENG ALOR WANTS TO IMPROVE [...] (SBU) Summary. CDA Powers met with newly sworn-in Foreign Minister Deng Alor on January 2 who said that he wanted to improve Sudanese-U.S. relations. Deng offered GoS assurances to work together in the investigation of the killing of the U.S. diplomat and his Sudanese driver. Also with the aim [...] | 2008-01-02 16:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM603 | SPLM REPS IN NORTH DARFUR: WE DON'T BELIEVE THE CENSUS WILL [...] (SBU) Speaking at the newly-opened North Darfur SPLM office, nearly a dozen SPLM reps told poloff on April 15 that Darfurians don't support the census because it will not benefit the people of Darfur. The SPLM reps said that the SPLM will not support a census that enables the NCP to manipulate [...] | 2008-04-18 09:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM604 | WHEN THE THIRST FOR POWER TRUMPS CPA COMMITMENTS [...] (SBU) The GoSS' reluctance to carry out the census in the South (and its latest statement that it reserves the right to dispute the census results) indicates that it is fearful that the actual size of the population in the South and NCP manipulation of the census process will result in less tha [...] | 2008-04-18 10:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM605 | CDA MEETS WITH FORMER PRESIDENT MIRGHANI [...] (U) On 17 April, CDA Fernandez met with former Sudanese President (1986-89) and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Deputy Ahmed Al-Mirghani, brother of DUP leader Mohamed Othman Al-Mirghani who remains in self-imposed exile in Cairo. Ahmed Al-Mirghani stated that the DUP (Mirghani faction) is kee [...] | 2008-04-20 10:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM607 | STUDENTS COMPLAIN OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON POLITICAL [...] This is an action cable, please see para 8. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In two separate meetings with university leaders the week of April 13, SPLM-affiliated students and members of the Darfur Students Union complained of discriminatory support for students based on party affiliation and geography. [...] | 2008-04-20 13:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM610 | UNAMID OFFICER ARRESTED IN NYALA FOR ALLEGED SEXUAL [...] (SBU) Summary: In the wake of the April 13 arrest without warrant of a UNAMID staff officer for alleged sexual misconduct, and subsequent reports that the South Darfur Wali banned UNAMID soldiers from downtown Nyala, UNAMID tempered its reaction to this apparent SOFA violation to emphasize that [...] | 2008-04-20 14:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM611 | STUDENTS COMPLAIN OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON POLITICAL [...] This is an action cable, please see para 8. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In two separate meetings with university leaders the week of April 13, SPLM-affiliated students and members of the Darfur Students Union complained of discriminatory support for students based on party affiliation and geography. [...] | 2008-04-20 15:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM613 | SOUTH SUDAN OPPOSITION POLITICIAN ON THE CENSUS AND GOSS [...] (SBU) Summary: South Sudan parliamentarian and opposition leader Dr. Jimmy Wongo believes that the GoSS's last-minute attempt to delay the census in the South has only made it look foolish and indecisive. Wongo said that he expects the NCP to manipulate census results to undercount the South [...] | 2008-04-21 05:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR SOCI KDEM SU |
08KHARTOUM614 | JMST BRIEFING FOCUSES ON SECURITY AND CONSULTATIONS WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an April 19 briefing to Khartoum's Ambassadors, Salim Ahmed Salim and Jan Eliasson (the African Union and United Nations Special Envoys for Darfur) stated that their most recent visit to Sudan focused on security concerns. According to Salim and Eliasson, consultations wit [...] | 2008-04-21 08:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM615 | UNAMID'S JMST REACHES OUT TO THE U.S. LOOKING FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY On April 20, UNAMID's Joint Mediation Support Team (JMST) Chief of Staff Yassir Sabra told poloffs that there is a "window of opportunity" for engaging the rebels and the Government of Sudan (GoS) on security issues with a meeting planned for late May possibly in Geneva. Sabra al [...] | 2008-04-21 13:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SU |
08KHARTOUM616 | ROME TALKS - INITIAL NCP PERCEPTIONS [...] (C) "The Rome talks were useful and even though we didn't get much out of them, we're looking at the bigger picture," NCP negotiator Yahia Bebiker, who was present in Rome, told CDA Fernandez April 21. Bebiker said the NCP viewed the talks as a "good start" as long as the two sides begin to c [...] | 2008-04-21 13:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM62 | UNAMID CIVILIAN RECRUITMENT PROCEEDS SLOWLY [...] (SBU) Deputy Director of the UNAMID Recruitment Office Haris Pajtic told poloff January 9 that civilian recruitment for the 5,500 civilian UNAMID positions is underway but admitted that serious obstacles remain. He said that his 12-person office expects to have recruited 50 percent of the posi [...] | 2008-01-17 05:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM620 | GOSS OFFICIALS COMPLAIN OF LACK OF OIL REVENUE TRANSPARENCY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Organized by the US Embassy in its role as Coordinator, the AEC's Wealth Sharing Working Group (WSWG) traveled to the South Sudanese capital of Juba April 16 for a field visit. The purpose of the trip, besides the symbolism of holding a session in Juba, was to gather information [...] | 2008-04-21 16:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
08KHARTOUM623 | GOSS GIVES JUBA SECURITY UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: On the afternoon of April 21 the GOSS assembled the Diplomatic and NGO community for a briefing on what steps it is taking to combat the recent rash of armed robberies targeting foreigners and NGOs in Juba. Actions to be taken include putting more police out on the streets, star [...] | 2008-04-23 12:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC CASC SU |
08KHARTOUM624 | ABYEI UPDATE: UNMIS OBSERVERS ACTIVITIES RESTRICTED BEFORE [...] (SBU) The 14-day period during which UNMIS peacekeepers were permitted to patrol outside of the town of Abyei ended on April 21, without being renewed by Sudan's Joint Military Commission (JMC). The JMC did grant UNMIS specific authority to travel from Abyei town to Higlig in order to meet and [...] | 2008-04-23 12:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID KPKO UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM625 | MINNAWI ON CENSUS, BILATERAL TALKS, AND PROPOSED [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 21, Senior Assistant to the President, Minni Minnawi, told CDA Fernandez that the census will not be accurate in Darfur, that the U.S.-Sudan bilateral negotiations legitimizes the NCP and marginalizes minority political voices, and that a recent aborted trip to Juba make [...] | 2008-04-23 12:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU |
08KHARTOUM626 | UN STAFFER'S PROPOSAL ON DARFUR NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) On April 22, Gerry McHugh, UN Envoy Jan Eliasson's chief strategist, told poloffs that the Darfur peace process needs strong U.S. leadership, not more large, multi-lateral meetings. McHugh offered a number of uncharacteristic UN ideas including: 1) Any deal will be brokered behind the [...] | 2008-04-23 12:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM627 | UNAMID LIQUIDATION TEAM ARRIVES IN DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNAMID has assigned a team of liquidation specialists to identify AMIS assets for disposal either to the UN or to the AU. The team said it can transfer European-donated AMIS assets by June but was not able to specify a similar date for USG assets since they were inventoried and [...] | 2008-04-23 14:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM628 | DANGEROUS LIES, DOUBLE-GAMING, AND DECEIT: INSIDE [...] (C) SUMMARY. GNU Presidential Advisor and NCP loyalist Ghazi Salah Eddin claims that the SPLM falsely accuses the NCP of conniving tactics to undercut the SPLM and the CPA. Salah Eddin complained about SPLM party disorganization, echoed sentiments that SPLM party leadership is splintering, an [...] | 2008-04-23 14:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI KDEM SU |
08KHARTOUM63 | PRESIDENCY TO NAME ADMINISTRATORS FOR ABYEI [...] (SBU) Summary: The Presidency may name an interim administration for Abyei soon despite the fact that borders have yet to be defined, according to NCP negotiator Dirdeiry Mohamed Ahmed. Dirdeiry boasted that the SPLM-NCP relationship has "never been better" following the SPLM's rejoining of th [...] | 2008-01-17 06:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM630 | SOUTHERN KORDOFAN - HUMANITARIAN UPDATE [...] (U) Begin Summary: From April 5 to 15, a USAID/OFDA program officer conducted site visits in Kadugli, Abu Gebeha, Talodi, and Kauda areas in Southern Kordofan State. The USAID/OFDA officer monitored USAID/OFDA-funded programs, particularly in the rural health sector, and met with humanitarian [...] | 2008-04-24 08:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
08KHARTOUM637 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ISMAIL ON ROME, CHAD/JEM, AND [...] (C) Summary: Sudan decided to keep its high-level delegation in Rome - despite the majority of the US delegation being "comprised of low-level officials", to demonstrate its seriousness - said Presidential Advisor Mustafa Othman Ismail. Ismail suggested that the second round of talks should o [...] | 2008-04-24 11:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM639 | SUDAN HEALTH MINISTRY REQUESTS SANCTIONS WAIVER ON CANCER [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 5. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Post has been contacted by the Sudanese Ministry of Health (via Sudanese Foreign Ministry),in a note dated 4/13/2008, with a request for assistance in permitting importation of radioisotopes and related equipment for cancer ther [...] | 2008-04-24 13:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFPC PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EAID CDC SU |
08KHARTOUM64 | CLASHES CONTINUE IN WEST DARFUR [...] (SBU) Summary: Heavy clashes in West Darfur continued January 13 - 15, with confirmed GOS aerial attacks on JEM rebel positions. There were also additional reports of Chadian aerial incursions into Sudan. End summary. 2. (SBU) During discussions with poloff January 15, UNAMID contacts confi [...] | 2008-01-17 06:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KSEC SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM640 | CHAD: UFDD, UFDD/F REITERATE IMPORTANCE OF PEACE [...] (C) In an April 24 conversation with Poloff, representatives of Mahamet Nouri's Union des Forces du Developpement et de la Democratie (UFDD) and Abdelwahid Aboud Makaye's UFDD/Fondamentale welcomed the increased international engagement on the Chadian conflict evident during the April 10 Conta [...] | 2008-04-25 10:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SU CD |
08KHARTOUM641 | ERITREAN OFFICIALS: NCP/SPLM COALITION AND UNITY [...] (C) Eritrean policy toward Sudan centers on two priorities, senior Eritrean officials told the Charge d'Affaires in a recent meeting: facilitating a partnership between the NCP and the SPLM that maintains the country's unity and defusing the Sudan-Chad conflict. Asmara continues to view a "co [...] | 2008-04-25 10:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SU ER CD LY |
08KHARTOUM642 | UNAMID PUBLIC INFORMATION STRATEGY IN DISARRAY, ACCORDING [...] (SBU) Summary: CDA Fernandez met with representatives from Albany Associates, a communications firm that has been hired by DFID to support UNAMID. Albany, which has an interest in getting its contract extended, warned that UNAMID is in disarray and has no communications strategy. The Albany r [...] | 2008-04-25 11:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN SU CD |
08KHARTOUM643 | GOSS VP MACHAR ON THE LRA AND THE SPLM [...] (SBU) Summary: Vice President of the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) Riek Machar met with Consul General Datta on the morning of April 23 and engaged in a wide ranging discussion that covered fading hopes for a peace agreement with the LRA and the future of the SPLM and the South. Machar [...] | 2008-04-25 11:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM644 | JANJAWEED FIGHTING CONTINUES INSIDE EL FASHER [...] (SBU) In yet another example of the clashes between Government of Sudan (GoS) military forces and unruly janjaweed elements that have been plaguing El Fasher for almost one month, on April 21 at approximately 2300 a truck of GoS Special Forces officers was stopped at a checkpoint in east El Fas [...] | 2008-04-25 11:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU ASEC |
08KHARTOUM645 | TRANSFER OF THREE DETAINEES TO SUDAN [...] (S) CDA Fernandez briefed MFA Under-Secretary Mutriff Siddiq on April 27 of the contents of reftel A. RAO briefed Sudanese Intelligence (NISS) at the same time. DLO has provided flight information to appropriate MOD authorities and to MFA in a diplomatic note (without specifying the nature of [...] | 2008-04-27 09:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PHUM PINR PTER KDRG TI SU |
08KHARTOUM646 | SUDAN AGREES TO RELEASE NEC CONTAINERS, PROMISES [...] (C) Summary: Sudan agreed to release long-delayed NEC containers beginning the morning of April 29 with all in country released by the end of the week. The Sudanese are also clearing up any remaining UNAMID shipment backlog in anticipation of a continuing dialogue with the US, the MFA's Under [...] | 2008-04-28 08:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | SU ASEC ABLD AMGT PGOV PREL |
08KHARTOUM647 | GOSS REGIONAL AFFAIRS UNDERSCRETARY ON SPLM POLITITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary. In a wide ranging conversation April 25, the Undersecretary of the GoSS Ministry of Regional Cooperation said that the Council of Minister's vote to delay the census in the South reflected South Sudan's internal ethnic anxieties, that it is unclear whether President Kiir will r [...] | 2008-04-28 12:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SOCI KCRM SU |
08KHARTOUM648 | DETERMINED UNHCR ENGAGES EXIGENT GNU [...] (SBU) Summary: Recent meetings between USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) officials and USAID/OFDA partner U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) officials in Khartoum and Nyala reveal that the Government of National Unity (GNU) has methodically challenged UNHCR in it [...] | 2008-04-28 13:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
08KHARTOUM650 | TCCS FORCE AGWAI TO CHANGE UNAMID PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Force Commander (FC) Agwai compromised on his number one deployment priority while in Addis Ababa, according to UNAMID's Chief of Planning. As he did with the Egyptians in Um Kadada (ref A),Agwai agreed to let the Ethiopi [...] | 2008-04-29 09:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC CD ET SU |
08KHARTOUM653 | CLASHES CONTINUE ALONG NORTH-SOUTH BORDER, COURT CASE [...] (SBU) Summary. Violent clashes continue to flare along Sudan's north-south boundary, centering on the Abyei region. On April 25, a skirmish between SPLA troops and a pro-NCP tribal force left a reported 20 casualties. On April 28, a murder in the town of Kharsana escalated into a battle tha [...] | 2008-04-29 15:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO UN SU |
08KHARTOUM654 | WFP TO REDUCE DARFUR FOOD AID RATIONS IN MAY [...] (U) On April 14, the UN World Food Program (WFP) informed key donors that in May it would be forced to nearly halve the general food aid ration distributed in Darfur, due to ongoing banditry against contracted commercial vehicles resulting in decreased commodity dispatches. WFP issued a press [...] | 2008-04-29 16:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
08KHARTOUM663 | EGYPT PLANS TO NOMINATE REPLACEMENT FOR UNAMID CHIEF OF [...] (SBU) Egyptian Pol/Mil Officer Tamer Azzam told poloff on April 29 that Egypt plans to nominate an Egyptian BG to replace BG Patrick Davidson-Houston as UNAMID Chief of Staff. He said that Egypt hopes to have their nominee in place as early as May 18, pending approval by the UN. 2. (SBU) S [...] | 2008-05-01 14:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO UNSC SOCI AU SU |
08KHARTOUM665 | SUDAN: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY PRICES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The rising global price of food and agricultural commodities is having an impact on food prices in Sudan, mainly with staple commodities, such as wheat and sorghum. While not fully quantifiable, domestic agricultural production seems to be responding to the changes, and the Go [...] | 2008-05-01 14:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL SU |
08KHARTOUM666 | CHAD: ERDIMI BLAMES STALLED TALKS ON CHAD, LIBYA [...] (C) RFC leader Timan Erdimi says that the talks in Tripoli between his movement and Chadian representatives have stalled because of Deby's lack of sincerity to participate in real political dialogue and Libya's pro-Deby bias. Though some RFC representatives remain in Libya to signify Erdimi's [...] | 2008-05-01 14:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU SU CD LY |
08KHARTOUM667 | RESPONSE: CHINA'S ENGAGEMENT IN SUDAN [...] (SBU) China's engagement in Sudan centers on the pursuit of its economic interests, particularly oil, and these interests underpin its relationship with the ruling National Congress Party (NCP). China's engagement on the political issues related to the conflict in Darfur or tensions between N [...] | 2008-05-01 14:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR SU CH XA XE |
08KHARTOUM668 | SUDAN RELEASES NEC CONTAINERS, APPROVES ARMING [...] (C) The GOS has begun releasing long-delayed NEC containers and also approved the US Embassy's request to arm its local guard force, as long as the guards "remain inside Embassy premises," MFA U/S Mutrif Siddiq told CDA Fernandez and polchief April 30 (first containers with in Embassy hands on [...] | 2008-05-01 15:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT ASEC KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM669 | MANSOUR KHALID ON SPLM PREPARATIONS FOR PARTY [...] (C) Everything is on track for the SPLM convention to go forward May 10, GOS Presidential Advisor and prominent SPLM northerner Dr. Mansour Khalid told CDA and polchief April 29. Khalid expects full support for Salva Kiir as Chairman of the party as "no one would dare stand against him." Khal [...] | 2008-05-01 15:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM67 | KORDOFAN REBEL GROUP MERGES WITH JEM [...] (U) SUMMARY: A new Kordofan rebel group led by a well-known former brigadier general in the Sudanese Armed Forces, Ibrahim Abu Rannat, has recently merged with the Justice and Equality Movement. This unification with "The Sons of Kordofan Alliance" (SKA) supports JEM's goal of spreading the Dar [...] | 2008-01-17 14:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KSEC PHUM ECON SU |
08KHARTOUM671 | AEC PLENARY OF MAY 1, 2008 [...] (U) SUMMARY: The 31st ordinary plenary session of the AEC was held May 1, 2008. The two sides (SPLM and NCP) sparred over recent incidents around Abyei, while CDA Fernandez stressed the need to grant UNMIS forces freedom of movement in the Abyei area to reduce tensions (an expression support [...] | 2008-05-02 10:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
08KHARTOUM672 | INCONSISTENCIES FORCE AGWAI TO CHANGE HIS UNAMID [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur Force Commander Martin Luther Agwai lamented in a May 2 conversation with FieldOff that "inconsistencies are forcing me to change my priorities" with regard to UNAMID deployment, as articulated reftel. The most damaging of these inc [...] | 2008-05-04 04:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM68 | AMIS "LIQUIDATION TEAMS" TO REDISTRIBUTE UNAMID ASSETS [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph ten. 2. (SBU) Summary. The African Union (AU) plans to form Liquidation Teams to inventory and redistribute equipment, possibly including USG assets already transferred to UNAMID. Until the inventory, AMIS refuses to permit UNAMID pers [...] | 2008-01-17 14:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM680 | SOUTH DARFUR FIGHTING TAKES NEW TURN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A traditional rivalry between two clans in South Darfur erupted in Sheiria, South Darfur, on April 30, with the introduction of mortars into fighting between the sides in an IDP camp. UNAMID leadership acknowledges this is the first time it has heard of use of this type of weapo [...] | 2008-05-05 07:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU |
08KHARTOUM683 | INCONSISTENCIES FORCE AGWAI TO CHANGE HIS UNAMID [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur Force Commander Martin Luther Agwai lamented in a May 2 conversation with FieldOff that "inconsistencies are forcing me to change my priorities" with regard to UNAMID deployment, as articulated reftel. The most damaging of these inc [...] | 2008-05-05 08:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM684 | POSTURING FOR ELECTIONS, UMMA WORKS TOWARD PEACE [...] (C) Predicting that the National Congress Party and/or the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) may use the ongoing crisis in Darfur as a pretext to postpone the 2009 elections, the Umma Party is seeking to forge a peace settlement for the troubled region and to defuse Chad-Sudan tensions, [...] | 2008-05-05 08:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SU CD |
08KHARTOUM69 | UNAMID OFFICIAL SAYS GOS NEITHER HELPING NOR HARMING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a January 15 conversation with FieldOff, United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Chief of Integrated Support Services (CISS) did not paint a picture of outright Government of Sudan (GoS) obstructionism to UNAMID deployment. Instead, the CISS reported that the G [...] | 2008-01-17 14:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM691 | GOS BOMBINGS IN NORTH DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The last week of April and first week of May witnessed a spate of Government of Sudan (GoS) bombings in remote parts of North Darfur against rebel positions. Civilians have been the primary victims, sounding alarm bells for the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNA [...] | 2008-05-05 14:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU |
08KHARTOUM692 | URFF ARAB REBEL REPRESENTATIVES SEEK SUPPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 4 in Khartoum, three representatives of the Arab-dominated United Revolutionary Forces Front (URFF) told poloffs that their individual rebel group and the larger umbrella group of which they are a part, the United Resistance Front (URF),are both weak and need support. The [...] | 2008-05-06 10:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU |
08KHARTOUM7 | INCOMING FOREIGN MINISTER DENG ALOR WANTS TO IMPROVE [...] (SBU) Summary. CDA Powers met with newly sworn-in Foreign Minister Deng Alor on January 2 who said that he wanted to improve Sudanese-U.S. relations. Deng offered GoS assurances to work together in the investigation of the killing of the U.S. diplomat and his Sudanese driver. Also with the aim [...] | 2008-01-02 16:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM70 | UNMIS DEPUTY RESIDENT SEES PROBLEMS AHEAD IN [...] (U) This is an action cable, please see para 5. 2. (C) Summary: UNMIS Deputy Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan David Gressly worries that poor governance and corruption risk derailing the potentially bright future of South Sudan while budget shortfalls could lead to pro [...] | 2008-01-18 10:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM701 | EASTERN SUDAN - IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY, IT WOULD BE THE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Charge Fernandez traveled to Kassala, in eastern Sudan, May 4-5 to meet with local political representatives and tour two locations ripe for USAID help: the flood-prone Al Gash River and the horrifically rundown Kassala hospital. This was the first trip to Kassala by a U.S. chief [...] | 2008-05-07 11:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PREF PHUM SOCI SU |
08KHARTOUM702 | CHINESE SEE UNAMID "INEFFICIENCY AND INCAPACITY" [...] (C) CDA Fernandez welcomed Chinese Ambassador to Sudan Li Cheng Wen to Embassy chancery on May 7 to discuss Chinese perspectives on UNAMID deployment. A clearly frustrated Wen noted that the remaining Chinese engineers should have been in place in February, but UNAMID's clear "inefficiency and [...] | 2008-05-07 13:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PREL SU |
08KHARTOUM704 | IDPS FACE CHALLENGES ON ISSUE OF RETURN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The issue of whether to remain in camps or return to their homelands is one that internally displaced persons (IDPs) continue to struggle with as the conflict in Darfur stretches into its fifth year. Fresh displacements highlight the dangers of returning too soon, however even h [...] | 2008-05-07 13:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM705 | INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY REFUTES GOS IDP RETURN CLAIMS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Recent local radio reports, based on a statement attributed to the Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) office in El Fasher, stated that as many as 4000 internally displaced persons in North Darfur were voluntarily returning to their villages. Separately, the North Darfur HAC commis [...] | 2008-05-07 13:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM71 | SUDAN HOSTS ARAB WOMEN'S UNION CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sudan Women's General Union (SWGU) hosted in Khartoum January 8-10 the fourth annual conference of the Arab Women's General Union (AWGU). Sudanese president Omar Hassan Al-Bashir addressed delegates at the opening session, promising that the Government of Sudan (GOS) will see [...] | 2008-01-18 10:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SU |
08KHARTOUM710 | SUDAN WARNS OF JEM RAID ON KHARTOUM, ASKS FOR U.S. [...] (C) In a call to CDA Fernandez late on May 8 and during a hastily convened diplomatic corps briefing on May 9, Sudan warned of an advance of JEM rebel forces deep into Sudanese territory, including a possible attack on a suburb of Khartoum within days. The Government also made a public statem [...] | 2008-05-09 11:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ASEC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM713 | CHAD: AWAITING CONTACT FROM DEBY, NOURI sEEKS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-09 15:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV SU CD LY SA |
08KHARTOUM716 | JEM REBELS ATTACK OMDURMAN, ALMOST REACH KHARTOUM [...] (SBU) JEM rebels attacked the sprawling Khartoum suburb of Omdurman May 10 and advanced within sight of one of the bridges leading to Khartoum. Although Sudanese Government forces prevented the rebels from crossing the Nile into the capital, JEM claims that it will launch another attack on the [...] | 2008-05-11 15:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MOPS KPKO AU UN SU CD |
08KHARTOUM718 | NCP "AFRAID OF ITSELF" IN JEM INCURSION INTRIGUE [...] (SBU) The day of the JEM attack on Omdurman May 10, on the margins of party discussions in preparation for the second SPLM General Conference, CDA Fernandez caught up with party leaders to discuss fears and intrigue in Khartoum caused by reports of the (then rumored) attack by the Justice and E [...] | 2008-05-12 08:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM719 | UNAMID POLICE LACK CRITICAL RESOUCES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNAMID civilian police (CIVPOL) leadership have identified deficiencies in their programs such as the need for a greater police presence in IDP camps, additional female officers from Police Contributing Countries (PCC),and additional senior police officers with more experience. [...] | 2008-05-12 08:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM72 | SPLM - "WE WILL NEVER COALESCE WITH THE NCP" [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There are still several issues being negotiated regarding the electoral law at the level of the National Constitutional Review Commission (NCRC): how women will be elected, the make-up of the mixed electoral system, and how to manage the registration and voting process for Sudane [...] | 2008-01-18 11:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM720 | ORPHANS OF THE CPA - SUDAN'S NUBA MOUNTAINS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: One of Sudan's "Three Areas," the Nuba Mountains region of South Kordofan state hosts SPLA enclaves north of the 1956 dividing line between north and south Sudan. According to a high-ranking SPLM and GNU official who hails from the area, the region continues to host 16,000-17, [...] | 2008-05-12 08:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR EAID SOCI KPKO SU |
08KHARTOUM721 | SPLA COS ON INTRA-SPLM TENSIONS AND RELATIONS WITH [...] (SBU) CDA Fernandez and Acting CG met with SPLA Chief of Staff LTG Oyai Deng Ajak on May 9. They discussed recent Misseriya/SPLA tensions within Sudan's oil-field region along the 1956 border, SPLA difficulties integrating a sometimes fickle Misseriya force, and Unity's State Governor Taban De [...] | 2008-05-12 09:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM722 | RESPONDING MORE EFFECTIVELY ON SOFA VIOLATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Responding to reports of GOS aerial bombardments in North Darfur (ref A),the Ceasefire Commission (CFC) opened investigations into the attacks on Um Sidir, Shegag Karo and Ein Bissaro. Although these investigations are ongoing, initial reports confirm that the attacks did occur [...] | 2008-05-12 10:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO AU SU ASEC CD UNSC |
08KHARTOUM723 | UNAMID STRUGGLES TO BRIDGE GAPS WITHIN CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As local civil society institutions begin to emerge in Darfur, tensions between traditional government-supported institutions and newer donor-funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are rising. Resentment and distrust have hampered the development of a cohesive civil societ [...] | 2008-05-12 12:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM724 | SUDAN'S NSC DISCUSSES JEM ATTACK AS ARRESTS [...] (S/NF) In the aftermath of the JEM attack on Omdurman (reftels) Sudan's National Security Council pledged to "react" to Chadian aggression, neutralize the "fifth column" that supported the rebels, and exploit the opportunity to enhance Sudan's international image, Senior Assistant to the Presi [...] | 2008-05-12 12:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM SU CD |
08KHARTOUM725 | UPDATE ON SITUATION IN KHARTOUM AND DARFUR AND EMBASSY [...] (SBU) Following the bold JEM raid on Omdurman May 10, the situation in Khartoum appears to have normalized as of May 13. There were numerous military police check points in downtown Khartoum May 11 and 12 in neighborhoods with sensitive government buildings and major roads and arteries. The Go [...] | 2008-05-13 11:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UNSC SU AMGT ASEC CASC |
08KHARTOUM726 | CHAD: NATIONAL ALLIANCE POSITION UNCHANGED BY [...] (C) The main Chadian rebel factions have not changed their strategy as a result of the Justice and Equality Movement's (JEM) May 10 brazen assault on Omdurman, National Alliance (AN) Secretary General Abakar Tolli told Poloff in a May 12 meeting. The AN--composed of the Union des Forces du De [...] | 2008-05-13 12:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CD SU |
08KHARTOUM727 | SUDANESE MFA BRIEFS KHARTOUM DIPLOMATIC CORPS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 13 at 11:00 A.M. (local time) Mutriff Sadiq, the Undersecretary at the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accompanied by a Sudanese Army General, briefed Khartoum's Ambassadors on the Justice and Equality Movement's attack on Omdurman, across the Nile from the Sudanese c [...] | 2008-05-13 14:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM729 | SPLM'S SHIFTING RESPONSE TO JEM ATTACK [...] (SBU) The SPLM's reaction to the May 10 JEM attack on Omdurman has shifted from private glee to deep concern. Any admiration for JEM's ability to achieve what eluded the SPLA during 21 years of war with Northern Sudan Party has been muted by fears of a National Congress Party (NCP) backlash ag [...] | 2008-05-13 15:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MOPS KPKO AU UN SU CD |
08KHARTOUM732 | MAY 14 UPDATE ON SITUATION IN KHARTOUM AND DARFUR AND [...] (SBU) There are reports of continued, sporadic firing in Omdurman during the night of May 13-14 and the Nile bridge connecting Omdurman with Khartoum-proper was closed briefly, but Khartoum remains generally calm four days after the May 10 JEM raid. Armed police and SAF continue to patrol the [...] | 2008-05-14 12:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UNSC SU CD AMGT ASEC CASC |
08KHARTOUM734 | SUDAN'S MESSAGE TO U.S., FOLLOWING [...] (C) CDA Fernandez met Presidential Advisor Dr. Mustafa Othman Ismail on May 14 at NCP HQ shortly after Ismail received his diplomatic marching orders from President Al-Bashir (Note: Sudan's Foreign Minister, Deng Alor, belongs to the SPLM and Ismail is Al-Bashir's and the ruling National Congr [...] | 2008-05-14 15:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM736 | MOVEMENTS EXPECT GOS RETALIATION IN DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Darfur representatives of Sudan Liberation Army/Minni Minawi (SLA/MM) expect Government of Sudan (GoS) to retaliate against Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) positions in Darfur for JEM having exposed the GoS' military weakness, particularly by allegedly killing officers at the [...] | 2008-05-14 15:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU CD UNSC |
08KHARTOUM737 | HEAVY FIGHTING BETWEEN SPLA AND SAF IN ABYEI [...] (SBU) Summary: Heavy fighting has broken out and continues between SPLA and SAF forces in the town of Abyei, despite UNMIS efforts to broker a ceasefire. With both the NCP and SPLM distracted by other crises, the UN is concerned that the situation could deteriorate further if the fighting sp [...] | 2008-05-14 16:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID MOPS KPKO SU |
08KHARTOUM739 | PAULINO MATIEP ON SPLM POLITICS AND THE SPLA [...] (SBU) Deputy Commander in Chief for the SPLA and ex-SSDF Commander Paulino Matiep claims that his involvement in the SPLM Unity State Congress fallout has been overstated. In a May 13 conversation with Acting CG, the aging Nuer military strategist was emphatic that rumors linking him with GOSS [...] | 2008-05-15 10:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS PHUM MARR MOPS SU |
08KHARTOUM74 | ISMAIL: CHADIAN MILITARY ESCALATION RISKS PUSHING [...] (C) Presidential Advisor Mustafa Othman Ismail warned of growing Sudanese exasperation at what they see as Chadian military escalation on the Darfur border. He also expressed Sudanese frustration at obstacles to Sudanese diplomats performing their work in the U.S. and warned of possible counte [...] | 2008-01-20 10:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PREL AU UN CD SU |
08KHARTOUM740 | PAGAN AMUN THREATENS TO LEAVE GNU CABINET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: GNU Cabinet Affairs Minister and SPLM Secretary General Pagan Amun cited irreconcilable differences with SPLM Chairman and First Vice President of Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit as his justification for why he intends to leave the Government of National Unity (GNU) and join his wife [...] | 2008-05-15 10:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS KDEM SU |
08KHARTOUM741 | SPLM PROPOSES FM ALOR VISIT PARIS TO DISCUSS JEM/CHAD, SPLA [...] (SBU) GNU Foreign Minister Deng Alor told poloffs in Juba May 14 that President Bashir may send him to Paris possibly as soon as next week to discuss Chad and its support for JEM with the French. Alor asked poloffs to "pass this information to your people in Khartoum and Washington." FM Alor [...] | 2008-05-15 10:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM745 | ABYEI UPDATE: FIGHTING SUBSIDES, BUT HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY [...] (SBU) Summary: Fighting between SAF and SPLA (reftel) subsided on May 15 and late in the day the sides agreed to a mutual withdrawal. Casualty numbers from May 13-14 fighting are unknown, but the town reportedly sustained heavy damage and the UN estimates that as many as 30,000 people (virtu [...] | 2008-05-15 17:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID MOPS KPKO SU |
08KHARTOUM747 | DRAFT SPLM CONSTITUTION SETS STAGE FOR CONVENTION DYNAMICS [...] (SBU) The SPLM's 119-member Interim National Council (INC) held its final session May 12-13 in a marathon push to finalize transformative foundational documents for the SPLM on the eve of the party's second national convention. Before its dissolution (the INC will be replaced by a 250-member Na [...] | 2008-05-16 11:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS PHUM KDEM SU |
08KHARTOUM748 | UNDERCOUNTING, INTIMIDATION MAR DARFUR CENSUS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. With the census officially completed, international organizations are taking stock of census results. While UNAMID, with support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA),is preparing a detailed analysis of the exercise and expected results, preliminary observations indica [...] | 2008-05-16 11:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM749 | TAWILA INCIDENT AS UNAMID TEST CASE IN PROTECTION OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Violence in Tawila, North Darfur on May 12, threatens to create a humanitarian crisis if left unchecked and unaddressed by the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). An interagency UNAMID team plans to travel to the region on May 15 to do an assessment and to m [...] | 2008-05-16 11:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU |
08KHARTOUM75 | SPLM HOLDS FOUR-DAY CPA CELEBRATION IN WAU [...] (SBU) The GoSS pulled out all the stops to hold its own celebrations of the third anniversary of the signing of the CPA, with a four-day celebration in the southern city of Wau from January 13 to 16 that included cultural events, speeches, sports competitions and parades. By holding the celebr [...] | 2008-01-20 11:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM750 | "NO TO WAR, YES TO A NEW SUDAN" - THE SPLM NATIONAL [...] (SBU) The SPLM National Convention - the party's second in 14 years - kicked off May 15 with great fanfare. 1720 delegates elected via successive grassroots contests at the boma, payam, county, and state-level converged on Juba to craft a new executive structure for the party - the first intra [...] | 2008-05-16 11:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS PHUM KDEM SU |
08KHARTOUM755 | SUDAN PUTS CAPTURED JEM MATERIEL ON DISPLAY IN [...] (SBU) Less than a week after a brazen rebel raid into the sprawling Khartoum suburb of Omdurman, the Sudanese Government put on an impressive display of captured weapons and materiel from the Chadian-supported Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) Darfur rebel group in Omdurman's historic Khalif [...] | 2008-05-18 10:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PREL CD SU |
08KHARTOUM760 | SUDANESE WILLING TO RESTRAIN THEMSELVES, FOLLOW [...] (C) Summary: Senior Assistant to President Al-Bashir, Dr. Nafie says that Sudan will not retaliate militarily against Chad for the Chadian-supported JEM rebel attack on Omdurman but will rather seek to isolate JEM and have it be condemned internationally. He admitted that Chadian rebels could u [...] | 2008-05-18 14:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PHUM PREF PREL PTER CD SU |
08KHARTOUM761 | THE GOS HARDLINE WILL SOON CHANGE, SAYS AL-TURABI [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 18, Popular Congress Party leader Hassan al-Turabi told CDA Fernandez on May 18 that the Government of Sudan's (GoS) current hardline approach and rhetoric in the wake of the Omdurman attack is temporary. The GoS will soon change its tone and be open to negotiations with K [...] | 2008-05-18 14:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM CD SU |
08KHARTOUM762 | MAY 18 ABYEI UPDATE: SPORADIC FIGHTING AMIDST EFFORTS TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The situation in Abyei remained quiet as of mid-day May 18, after renewed fighting on May 16-17. SAF remains in the town, despite a UN-brokered mutual withdrawal agreement with the SPLA "police forces," which departed the town May 17. The Ceasefire Joint Monitoring Commission [...] | 2008-05-19 04:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID MOPS KPKO SU |
08KHARTOUM763 | DARFUR HUMAN RIGHTS TRENDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Recent bombings targeting civilians in rebel-held areas of North Darfur have accompanied a deteriorating human rights situation throughout the region. Human rights advocates have also noted an increase in the incidence of rape, as well as domestic violence, often taking place in [...] | 2008-05-19 05:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM764 | MINAWI SAYS KHALIL IBRAHIM STRONGER AFTER OMDURMAN [...] (C) Summary: JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim is stronger as a result of the attack on Omdurman, despite the short-term loss of fighters and vehicles, according to SLM leader and Senior Assistant to the President Minni Minawi. Minawi believes an attack on Chad is imminent, despite comments from other [...] | 2008-05-19 05:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM769 | A "BILL OF RIGHTS" FOR DARFUR'S IDPS [...] (C) As the United States considers further discussions with Sudan on issues related to the conflict in Darfur, the challenge remains to comprehensively address all aspects of this bloody, complex and contradictory crisis. The Darfur crisis is unusual: some rebel commanders receive/received gen [...] | 2008-05-19 11:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREF PREL EAID UN SU |
08KHARTOUM77 | HILAL APPOINTMENT AIMED AT KEEPING RESTLESS ARAB [...] (C) Summary: During their meeting January 20, CDA Fernandez told Presidential Advisor and NCP moderate Ghazi Salahudin that the GOS has a short window of opportunity to demonstrate that it is not the obstacle to peace in Darfur. Fernandez suggested a basket of initiatives that could break the [...] | 2008-01-21 11:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM770 | HIGHLIGHTING ABYEI IN US-SUDAN BILATERAL [...] This is an action message. Please see para 6. 2. (C) Fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and their tribal surrogates and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and their proxies over the disputed oil-rich area of Abyei claimed more lives and displaced more people this week t [...] | 2008-05-19 14:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL EAID SU |
08KHARTOUM772 | SPLM TAKES THE HIGH ROAD IN ABYEI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The SPLM is using the current humanitarian and security crisis in Aryei town"tk highlighd NCQ intrajsigefce"of thQJAbiai kssue"ane pmucD gvrnbu3t$~dg^qsvQh4 eQu)ktfb&'bl$XalQ ibmtneIa.aAa%jQjnQwxo 'cYb@,aQhd]cm"~7Qkdf.oth+,sFQ_px(hV\Q^"G"ldtr ies to respond to the humanitarian cri [...] | 2008-05-19 15:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID KPKO SU |
08KHARTOUM773 | SPLM NATIONAL CONVENTION: THE ROLLER COASTER CONTINUES [...] (SBU) The SPLM National Convention recessed abruptly on May 17 to allow for a six-hour extraordinary session of the Interim National Council. The future of Dr. Riek Machar - and the embattled GOSS Vice President's legacy of untrustworthiness and brutality within the South - brought decisions o [...] | 2008-05-19 15:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM SU |
08KHARTOUM774 | GOSS CALLS FOR USG INTERVENTION ON ABYEI [...] (SBU) Government of Southern Sudan Ministers Barnabas Benjamin (Regional Cooperation) and Luka Biong Deng (Presidential Affairs) requested US assistance on Abyei at a GOSS/UN/USG coordination meeting on Abyei relief efforts May 19. More specifically, they called for direct and immediate engage [...] | 2008-05-19 15:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID MOPS KPKO SU |
08KHARTOUM775 | MFA INFORMS OF SPLA "SURPRISE ATTACK" IN ABYEI, [...] (C) MFA Under-Secretary Mutriff Siddiq called in CDA Fernandez on May 20 to inform him of military escalation in the contested region of Abyei by the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) after a purported compromise had been achieved on May 18. Siddiq said that SPLA units armed with heavy wea [...] | 2008-05-20 10:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREF PREL EAID SU |
08KHARTOUM777 | AEC CHAIRMAN TO CONVENE AEC PLENARY IN JUBA TO ADDRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After consulting with AEC Coordinators May 20, AEC Chairman Derek Plumbly said he would convene a special plenary session of the Commission in Juba May 22 to address the recent outbreak of fighting in Abyei. A previously-planned trip by the AEC to the troubled region is not fea [...] | 2008-05-20 13:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
08KHARTOUM778 | GOS WILL NEGOTIATE WITH CHAD, SEEK TO ISOLATE AND [...] (C) Sudan will not support Chadian rebels in another bid to unseat President Deby, but rather will seek multilateral sanctions against Khalil Ibrahim and JEM and will participate in the African Union mediation between Sudan and Chad, MFA U/S Mutriff Siddiq told CDA May 20. Siddiq said that to t [...] | 2008-05-20 13:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM779 | JEM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After days of relative silence, Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leader Khalil Ibrahim contacted FieldOff to accept the Special Envoy's proposal for a meeting in Ndjamena May 29. Khalil made clear that "Darfur is not the goal," but that regime change in Khartoum remains not [...] | 2008-05-20 14:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU SU CD UNSC |
08KHARTOUM78 | DARFUR RIZEIGAT LEADER FEARS BEING PULLED INTO THE [...] (C) Over lunch with emboffs January 16, NGO activist and leading Rizeigat figure Waleed Madibbo expressed his frustration with the Wali of South Darfur over his refusal to allow a planned reconciliation conference to go forward. The conference, which Madibbo had previewed with CDA Fernandez la [...] | 2008-01-21 11:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF SU AU UN |
08KHARTOUM782 | HEAVY FIGHTING IN ABYEI MAY 20 EVENTIALLY DIES DOWN, CALLS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Heavy fighting took place in Abyei May 20 between SAF and SPLM forces. Each side accuses the other of an unprovoked attack. A tense calm returned later in the day, with both sides back in their original positions. SPLM officials complained that President Kiir is under intense pre [...] | 2008-05-21 08:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID MOPS KPKO SU |
08KHARTOUM783 | ARAB REBEL LEADER PROMISES MORE ATTACKS ON GOS [...] (C) SUMMARY On May 19 and 20, Anwar Ahmed Khater, the leader of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) (and "Darfur's emerging Arab leader" according to one Darfur expert),told poloff that Chadian officials and JEM leaders attempted to recruit his Arab rebel movement prior to JEM's May 10 a [...] | 2008-05-21 11:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU |
08KHARTOUM786 | ABYEI REMAINS QUIET MAY 21, BUT TEMPERS REMAIN RAW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Abyei is reported to be relatively quiet but tense on May 21. Based on confirmed information, any of the previously reported accounts from both the SAF and the SPLA on how the most recent fighting started remain plausible. In speeches on May 20 and May 21, GoSS President Kiir [...] | 2008-05-21 13:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID MOPS KPKO SU |
08KHARTOUM787 | SPLM ANGER FOLLOWING MAY 20 BATTLE IN ABYEI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The SPLM remains divided over Kiir's decision to limit SPLA forces from Abyei, and senior leadership, including Foreign Minister Deng Alor, are among a faction favoring a more aggressive response. Outrage over SAF conduct intensified following May 19 SAF interference with the r [...] | 2008-05-21 13:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID MOPS KPKO SU |
08KHARTOUM788 | HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS FOLLOWING REBEL ACTION IN KHARTOUM [...] (U) Summary: Following last week's armed engagements in Omdurman between JEM and the GOS forces, Sudanese authorities have begun a widespread campaign of random arrests, detainee torture and newspaper censorship. While many have been released, 150 individuals remain under arrest, and one newsp [...] | 2008-05-21 13:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM789 | WFP REPORTS THAT DARFUR CONVOYS ARE MOVING [...] (SBU) WFP food convoys to Darfur are now moving in greater numbers thanks to a new contract signed with the trucking companies, WFP Representative Kenro Oshidari told polchief May 21. The contract increases substantially the rate provided to the companies, and imposes a penalty for non-deliver [...] | 2008-05-21 15:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM79 | SUDAN'S INTERIOR MINISTRY WANTS CLOSER COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: Sudan's new Minister of State for Interior, Abbas Jumaa, seeks closer cooperation with the United States in law enforcement, anti-terrorism and anti-drug efforts. A native of Blue Nile State, Jumaa strongly urged greater U.S. engagement, of every sort, in Sudan's marginalized borde [...] | 2008-01-21 12:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SU |
08KHARTOUM793 | TDRA IN NEED OF REFORM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) created the Transitional Darfur Regional Authority (TDRA) and the six commissions tasked with implementing the various components of the agreement. In general, the commissions are plagued by poor administration and weak leadership, and characteri [...] | 2008-05-22 13:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM796 | MAY 21 ABYEI TIDBITS [...] (SBU) With the exception of sporadic, possibly random, firing, Abyei is reported to have been quiet for the previous 24 hours as of early May 24. Contrary to previous reports (reftel),according to the SPLA the bridge over the Kiir River remains intact, although supposedly two aerial bombs fe [...] | 2008-05-22 14:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID KPKO SU |
08KHARTOUM8 | DIFFICULTIES PROVIDING EMBASSY SUPPORT FOR CODEL PAYNE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Even without the need for increased security in the wake of the January 1 attack on an Embassy Khartoum vehicle, resulting in the deaths of an FSN driver and an American USAID officer, post is facing enormous challenges in providing support for the visit of CoDel Payne. This is [...] | 2008-01-02 16:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP ASEC AMGT PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU KE |
08KHARTOUM80 | EL FASHER ARABS DEFENSIVE ABOUT MUSA HILAL APPOINTMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 17 meeting with FieldOff, representatives of two Arab tribes in El Fasher were defensive about President Bashir's appointment of former janjaweed militia leader Sheikh Musa Hilal to the post of Advisor to the Minister of Federal Rule. The Arab reps dismissed the pos [...] | 2008-01-21 13:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM806 | AEC EXTRAORDINARY PLENARY ADDRESSES ABYEI: SPLM LEADERS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) held an extraordinary plenary session May 25 to address recent violence in Abyei, a situation that all agreed is a "crisis." Members of the international community joined AEC Chairman Derek Plumbly in pressing the two parties to exer [...] | 2008-05-26 15:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
08KHARTOUM807 | USAID ASSESSMENT OF ABYEI IDPS IN AGOK [...] Begin Summary: On May 24, a USAID team including officers from USAID's Office of Food for Peace (USAID/FFP) and Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) conducted a one-day assessment of the humanitarian situation in and around Agok in southern Abyei Area. The Agok area is curr [...] | 2008-05-27 07:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
08KHARTOUM816 | NORTH DARFUR ATTACKS APPEAR TO TARGET SLA/MM [...] (SBU) A spate of attacks in North Darfur has resulted in the deaths of at least 13 Sudanese Liberation Army/Minni Minawi (SLA/MM) rebels in the last week. According to UN Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS),fighting erupted on May 20 in Kafoud between SLA/MM and SLA/Free Will (SLA/FW),[...] | 2008-05-28 10:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM EAID MOPS KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM817 | TDRA IN NEED OF REFORM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) created the Transitional Darfur Regional Authority (TDRA) and the six commissions tasked with implementing the various components of the agreement. In general, the commissions are plagued by poor administration and weak leadership, and characteri [...] | 2008-05-28 11:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM821 | DARFUR PLANNED COMPENSATION SCHEME FAULTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Compensation is the number one issue raised by virtually every segment of society in Darfur. To implement components of the Agreement dealing with reparations and compensation, the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) established the Darfur Compensation Commission (DCC). Although it w [...] | 2008-06-01 13:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM EAID KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM822 | AEC VISITS DEVASTATED ABYEI TOWN AND REFUGEES [...] (U) Summary: An Assessment and Evaluation Committee (AEC) delegation visited Abyei and associated refugee sites May 28 to view the effects of recent fighting between Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) units in that town. Abyei is now completely under the contro [...] | 2008-06-01 13:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
08KHARTOUM830 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRESSES SUDANESE PRESIDENCY TO TABLE [...] (SBU) On 28 May, the National Assembly adopted a resolution requesting that the Presidency table the long-delayed electoral bill. The resolution could lead to one of two alternatives - either the Presidency will feel compelled to resolve the outstanding issues on the law itself or it will subm [...] | 2008-06-03 08:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM834 | DARFUR ELECTION COALITIONS EMERGE FROM SKEPTICISM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Following the widely criticized census exercise, Darfuris remain wary of the prospects for elections mandated for next year. In a series of meetings, North Darfur political leaders told FieldOff that Darfur political parties are generally ill-prepared to participate, and most r [...] | 2008-06-04 11:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KDEM KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM836 | "NOW IS THE TIME," TURABI TELLS WILLIAMSON [...] (SBU) On May 30, Special Envoy Richard Williamson called on Dr. Hassan Abdalla al-Turabi, founder and leader of the People's Congress Party (PCP). Turabi was a founding member of the National Islamic Front (NIF),predecessor of the current regime, the National Congress Party (NCP). Turabi was [...] | 2008-06-04 13:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SU |
08KHARTOUM840 | UNAMID CHIEF OF STAFF LEAVES MISSION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After months of uncertainty about his possible PNG-ing, UNAMID Chief of Staff Patrick Davidson-Houston left the Mission on May 27, lamenting that he "left much undone." The majority of UNAMID officials acknowledge that Davidson-Houston's departure is a blow to the Mission, and no [...] | 2008-06-05 09:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU ER ET UNSC |
08KHARTOUM842 | S/E WILLIAMSON MEETS WITH NYALA WOMEN AND CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a May 31 meeting, Nyala women and civil society leaders told U.S. Presidential Special Envoy Richard Williamson that delays in implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) were disproportionately impacting women and children. They detailed training they had undertaken in [...] | 2008-06-05 09:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM846 | MEDIA REACTION: WHAT'S NEXT FOR U.S.-SUDAN TALKS? [...] Several local newspaper commentators added their voices to the debate surrounding the U.S. role in trying to help the Sudanese political class resolve the country's internal conflicts - Darfur and the North/South dispute over the oil-rich Abyei region. Meanwhile, the local press increasingly tu [...] | 2008-06-05 14:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO OIIP SU |
08KHARTOUM847 | DARFUR STUDENTS BEATEN AND DORMITORIES DESTROYED FOLLOWING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. According to eyewitnesses and participants, Sudanese security services violently broke up a Darfuri student protest at Khartoum University on June 5. Security forces beat the protestors with iron bars, threw several Molotov cocktails into the crowd, and fired handguns into the [...] | 2008-06-08 05:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL PREF SOCI UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM849 | DEMARCHE TO THE GOVERNMENT OF SUDAN ON FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT [...] (SBU) During his May 28 - June 4 visit to Sudan (septels),Presidential Special Envoy Richard Williamson and embassy officers repeatedly and forcefully raised the need for unfettered freedom of movement for both UNAMID and UNMIS in their discussions with high-level officials of the GoS (ref a) [...] | 2008-06-08 08:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM85 | AT LONG LAST CHINESE AND BANGLADESHI UNITS DEPLOY [...] (SBU) Despite a 24-hour delay from their projected January 20 deployment date, the Chinese engineering unit and the Bangladeshi-formed police unit (FPU) of the United Nations Heavy Support Package (HSP) of assistance to the African Union Mission in the Sudan finally left their base in Nyala to [...] | 2008-01-22 09:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM851 | SPECIAL ENVOY WILLIAMSON MEETING WITH SENIOR SPLM IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Special Envoy Richard Williamson met with the senior leadership of the SPLM in Khartoum on May 31 to discuss progress on the implementation of the CPA, the crisis in Abyei, and the need for better coordination between the SPLM and the United States in dealing with the National C [...] | 2008-06-08 09:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KPKO UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM857 | DARFUR ZAGHAWA PREDICT ANOTHER REBEL ATTACK ON KHARTOUM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. While El Fasher Zaghawa report that they have not experienced increased harassment or threats against them since the May 10 attack on Omdurman, they claim that Khartoum-based Zaghawa still are targeted for arbitrary abuse. Despite the repercussions, local Zaghawa civilians supp [...] | 2008-06-09 11:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM MOPS KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM858 | LACK OF POLITICAL AGREEMENT CONTINUES TO THREATEN [...] (SBU) On 2 June, Deputy Secretary General of the SPLM for the Northern Sector Yasir Arman told poloff that the 2009 elections and the 2011 referendum on independence for south Sudan are the "end game" of the CPA. "The elections are about the democratic transformation of Sudan," he said. He ma [...] | 2008-06-09 13:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID KDEM SOCI SU |
08KHARTOUM859 | NCP AND SPLM SIGN ABYEI ACCORD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On the evening of June 8, with great fanfare before an assembled audience of media and diplomatic community representatives, President of the Government of National Unity (GoNU) Omar Bashir and First Vice President Salva Kiir announced the completion of a new road map agreement [...] | 2008-06-09 14:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM EAID KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM86 | OPPOSITION LEADERS IN NORTHERN STATE DISCUSS NEW GOVERNOR, [...] (U) SUMMARY: In separate meetings with econoff on January 17 and 21, leaders of the Kush Movement for Democracy and the Dal Dams Committee criticized Northern State's newly appointed governor. Contacts complained that the new governor is an outsider unfamiliar with northern issues, that he wa [...] | 2008-01-22 09:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID SU |
08KHARTOUM863 | UNMIS CONSIDERS MANDATE SHIFT IN WAKE OF LRA VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following a succession of highly visible, high casualty LRA attacks in Southern Sudan, UN officials are discussing a temporary shift of UNMIS's peacekeeping mandate from Chapter Six to Chapter Seven. UNMIS Sector One officials, sensitive to criticism leveled against their Sector [...] | 2008-06-10 14:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO UNSC SU UG |
08KHARTOUM866 | MASS ARRESTS, TORTURE THREATEN DARFURIS IN KHARTOUM [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the May 10 JEM attacks on Omdurman, there are reliable reports that the GoS has detained and tortured thousands of Darfuris living in Khartoum. Sudanese civil society is scrambling to document the names of the detainees, and Sudanese opposition has formed the "May 10 [...] | 2008-06-10 14:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI SU |
08KHARTOUM871 | AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH SPQL ENVOY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a June 1 meeting Special Envoys Williamson and Eliasson compared notes on current circumstances complicating the path to peace in Darfur. Eliasson highlighted regional aspects of the Darfur crisis, namely the need for the P5 to facilitate normalization of Chad-Sudan relation [...] | 2008-06-11 10:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM872 | WHEN ONE UNAMID DEPLOYMENT DOOR OPENS, ANOTHER CLOSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Deployment "progress" made during the June 5 United Nations Security Council visit to El Fasher, North Darfur, appears to be illusory, according to United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur Force Commander GEN Agwai. While the Government of Sudan promised to allow Thai and [...] | 2008-06-11 10:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC AU ET SU |
08KHARTOUM876 | SE WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH SLM-MINNAWI LEADERSHIP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On May 31, Presidential Special Envoy Richard S. Williamson met with seven senior leaders of SLM-Minni Minnawi (SLM-MM). SLM-MM representatives voiced concern about DPA implementation, UNAMID's performance, GoS-USG bilateral discussions, and the indiscriminate targeting and deten [...] | 2008-06-12 11:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KPKO UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM877 | SOUTHERN SUDAN HUMANITARIAN UPDATE - NORTHERN BAHR EL [...] Summary: From May 19 to 23, a USAID team, including officers from the Office of Food for Peace (USAID/FFP) and Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA),reviewed the humanitarian situation in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State (NBEG). The team looked at the problem of malnutrition a [...] | 2008-06-12 13:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
08KHARTOUM878 | MIXED REVIEWS FROM EL FASHER ON U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY'S VISIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Reviews are mixed in parts of Darfur about Special Envoy Williamson's June 3 suspension of bilateral talks with the Government of Sudan (GoS). However, most people tend to agree that the GoS will use this action as a pretext for further disingenuous behavior in its dealings with [...] | 2008-06-12 13:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC AU SU |
08KHARTOUM881 | PROMINENT CRITIC GOES UNDERGROUND AS GOS CROWS ABOUT HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: GoS authorities held a press conference on June 10 to spotlight JEM human rights violations, and announce that all JEM "collaborators" will soon be charged and brought to trial. One young critic who came to prominence through his internet postings, Ibrahim Bagal, has gone undergr [...] | 2008-06-13 13:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI SU |
08KHARTOUM882 | SLM-UNITY AND SAF BOTH CLAIM VICTORY IN NORTH DARFUR FIGHT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Fighting between SLM-Unity and Sudanese Armed Forces broke out on June 8 in North Darfur State. SLM-Unity representatives claimed victory, alleging that they killed more than 150 SAF soldiers and destroyed dozens of SAF vehicles. SAF reported they suffered only fourteen casualt [...] | 2008-06-13 13:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MOPS KPKO SU |
08KHARTOUM883 | SPECIAL ENVOY ATTEMPTS TO BRIDGE UNAMID DISCONNECT WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Special Envoy and UNAMID Force Commander aired shared frustrations in a May 31 meeting over the disconnect between UNAMID in Darfur and UN Headquarters in New York, a disconnect which led the Force Commander to declare that UNAMID had actually regressed in the five months si [...] | 2008-06-15 05:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU SU UNSC |
08KHARTOUM889 | NCP AND SPLM DISCUSS THEIR AGREEMENT ON ABYEI [...] (C) Two key NCP-SPLM leaders discussed on June 11 the June 8 Accord on Abyei, its implementation, and whether the parties would welcome the return of Special Envoy Williamson to assist with Abyei negotiations. The SPLM and the NCP agreed that the new accord is a positive step. The SPLM went so [...] | 2008-06-15 11:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF KPKO PHUM UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM89 | SAF AND SPLA DECLARE EACH OTHER'S REDEPLOYMENTS INCOMPLETE [...] (SBU) Two weeks after the January 9 deadline for troop redeployment, and despite high-profile media announcements by both armies that they had redeployed their troops, now both the SAF and the SPLA have begun accusing each other of not fully withdrawing. One of the National Congress Party's mos [...] | 2008-01-22 12:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM890 | INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS ASSESS SUDAN'S CENSUS ENUMERATION [...] (SBU) The Monitoring and Observation Committee's (MOC's) international and domestic census enumeration observation team's preliminary findings indicate that enumeration went "well" across Sudan and the quality of data collected was "good." Although the areas country-wide in which the nearly 60 [...] | 2008-06-15 12:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID KDEM SOCI SU |
08KHARTOUM891 | EL FASHER CULTURAL CENTER AMBITIOUS, UNDERFUNDED [...] SUMMARY. Situated on the outskirts of the bustling central market, the El Fasher Cultural Center includes a theater, music room and public library. The Center, managed under the watchful eye of General Manager Ibrahim Abbakr has eight departments - art and painting, folklore, music and bands, [...] | 2008-06-15 12:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL SOCI SU |
08KHARTOUM892 | CHADIAN REBELS DISCUSS LATEST OFFENSIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 15 at 13:00, representatives of the National Alliance (NA) told poloffs that contrary to other reports, Chadian rebels control Goz Beida and are on the verge of entering Abeche. NA representatives requested U.S. mediation in the conflict, stating that they are ready to [...] | 2008-06-15 13:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU |
08KHARTOUM893 | ABDUL WAHID'S KHARTOUM REP DISCUSSES MILITARY [...] (C) SUMMARY In a discrete June 12 meeting with poloff, the head of SLA-Abdul Wahid's Khartoum's office boasted of Abdul Wahid's military strength, extensive and multi-layered organization throughout Sudan, and overall popularity in Darfur. He also strongly criticized UNAMID, Special Envoys [...] | 2008-06-15 14:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU |
08KHARTOUM894 | RULING PARTY STILL POSITIVE ON US-SUDAN RELATIONS [...] (C) MFA U/S and National Congress Party (NCP) insider Mutriff Siddiq told CDA Fernandez June 15 that Sudan remains positive about the prospects for improved US-Sudan relations despite SE Williamson's departure from Khartoum without reaching an agreement. Siddiq said the GOS plans to follow th [...] | 2008-06-15 15:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM896 | SURGE IN REBEL ACTIVITY IN DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Daily Government of Sudan helicopter gunship overflights of El Fasher, rebel movements from Tine to Tawilla, and a sharp increase in banditry - particularly against international non-governmental organizations, all highlight a recent increase in rebel activity in Darfur. Such ac [...] | 2008-06-16 11:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC AU CD SU |
08KHARTOUM897 | DARFUR UNIVERSITIES DEVELOP PROGRAMS AROUND USG BOOK [...] (U) SUMMARY. On May 29, FieldOffs delivered the final installment of USG-provided English language teaching materials to the Languages Department at Nyala University. Department head Dr. Mahmoud Adam Daoud thanked FieldOffs for the donation, noting that Nyala University had set a goal to train [...] | 2008-06-16 13:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL SOCI SU |
08KHARTOUM898 | ABYEI ACCORD MAY BE AN NCP TRAP, SAYS FORMER SUDANESE FM [...] (SBU) Summary: Lam Akol told CDA Fernandez that the SPLM views the June 8 Abyei agreement as success, but the choice to refer the border demarcation to international arbitration could help the NCP delay a decision until after the 2011 referendum. A prolonged arbitration process serves the NCP w [...] | 2008-06-16 14:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM899 | IMPLEMENTATION OF ABYEI ROADMAP; SRSG EXPRESSES CONCERNS [...] (SBU) Summary: President Bashir issued a decree June 15 implementing the legal framework for the Abyei agreement, but an administration has yet to be named or confirmed. Observers continue to disagree over which side got the better deal in the agreement, however everyone agrees that the proces [...] | 2008-06-16 14:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI SU |
08KHARTOUM9 | GONU EXTENDS CONDOLENCES ON KILLING OF U.S. DIPLOMAT [...] Post received a Diplomatic Note dated January 2, 2008 from the Presidency of the Republic of Sudan expressing condolences on the shooting death of USAID officer John Granville in Khartoum on New Year's morning. Below is a non-official translation of the text of the Note, the original of which [...] | 2008-01-03 14:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU |
08KHARTOUM90 | SUDAN: NARROW WINDOW FOR ACHIEVING U.S. OBJECTIVES [...] (C) After seven years of intense diplomatic focus, U.S. efforts to secure a peaceful, stable, and transformed Sudan have accomplished much - ended the bloodiest and longest running civil war on the continent, saved several million Darfuri Sudanese who rely on US humanitarian assistance, pushed [...] | 2008-01-22 15:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO PTER UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM902 | SLM/MM FRUSTRATED AND WEAKENED TO THE BREAKING POINT [...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 17, Mohammed Suliman, a senior leader of SLM/Minni Minnawi (SLM/MM) and Secretary General of the TDRA, railed against the NCP, stating that the ruling party should openly admit its neglect of the DPA, rather than deceptively undermine the peace agreement. Suliman's fiery [...] | 2008-06-18 10:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PINS SU |
08KHARTOUM904 | ABYEI ROADMAP IMPLENTATION: JIU DEPLOYS, INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Elements of the new Joint Integrated Unit were deploying to Abyei on June 18, as both the SAF and SPLA are concentrating their regular forces outside the region to be part of the new unit. The SAF reportedly tried in the June 12 JDB meeting to walk back the timeline agreed to [...] | 2008-06-18 13:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SU |
08KHARTOUM905 | NORTH DARFUR KEY ACADEMIC INDICATOR SHARPLY DECLINES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Tasked with reviewing and monitoring the performance of state ministries, the State Legislative Council recently discovered a little noticed but sharp decline in the percentage of students passing the exam from primary to secondary school last year in North Darfur. Ministry of E [...] | 2008-06-18 14:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SCUL SOCI UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM91 | HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS MINISTER REQUESTS TRANSITION FROM [...] (SBU) CDA Fernandez paid a courtesy call January 21 on the newly-appointed Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Haroun Ron. Minister Ron is a respected and loyal member of the SPLM who assumed this post when the SPLM allowed its ministers back into the government earlier this month. 2. (SBU) Wi [...] | 2008-01-23 04:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO PHUM AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM911 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT GETS A LIFT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Just when it seemed like those in charge of UNAMID deployment were all out for summer break and all meaningful work would accordingly have to wait until fall, the contingent-owned equipment for the Chinese engineers in Nyala reached its destination at long last, allowing for arri [...] | 2008-06-19 11:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM912 | STRUGGLE WITH NCP OVER ELECTIONS MASKS SPLM [...] (C) Summary: Wrangling between the National Congress Party (NCP) and SPLM over elections, police and other laws masks an ongoing divide within the SPLM between purists and pragmatists, Southerners and Northerners, over the direction of the party and of Sudan. This divide has both ideological a [...] | 2008-06-19 11:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI SU |
08KHARTOUM913 | ABYEI UPDATE JUNE 19 [...] (U) SPLA and SAF contingents that will form the basis of the new JIU battalion in Abyei began to arrive in Abyei June 19, according to UNMIS. 310 SPLA troops arrived overland from Wau June 19, while the 200 SAF arrived overland from Muglad with an additional 100 due to arrive later the same da [...] | 2008-06-19 13:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM915 | SHORTLEY MEETINGS WITH GOSS/SPLA ON LRA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: "Dove" Vice President and Juba Peace Talks Mediator Riek Machar and military pragmatist SPLA Chief of Staff General Oyai Deng Ajak provided AF Senior Advisor Shortley with nuanced and occasionally differing viewpoints on how to deal with the LRA question following fresh LRA acti [...] | 2008-06-20 09:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS SU CG CT UG |
08KHARTOUM916 | A GUIDE TO THE FORMAL POLITICAL PARTY LANDSCAPE IN DARFUR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Although the two CPA signatories - the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the National Congress Party (NCP) - form the basis of the Government of National Unity (GNU) and control most aspects of political life in Sudan (with the NCP controlling the North and the SPLM [...] | 2008-06-20 10:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM918 | 39 DARFURIS CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH MAY 10 ATTACKS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese authorities formally charged 39 detainees in connection with the May 10 JEM attacks on the capital, although many more Darfuris remain in custody or are unaccounted-for. Khartoum-based Darfuri civil society groups have received significant moral support from political pa [...] | 2008-06-20 12:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN SU CD |
08KHARTOUM92 | COURTESY CALL ON CIRINO HITENG [...] (SBU) CG Datta paid a courtesy call January 22 on Cirino Hiteng, a prominent player in the SPLM and Undersecretary in the Ministry of Regional Cooperation. Topics covered ranged from Eritrean-Ethiopian border tensions to the CPA. 2. (SBU) Dr. Cirino led off by commenting that a senior delega [...] | 2008-01-23 05:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM920 | SLM LAWYER DESCRIBES SUDAN'S "UNDECLARED STATE OF [...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 19, Abdel Aziz Sam (the legal expert for the Sudan Liberation Movement/Minni Minnawi- SLM/MM) told CDA Fernandez that the harassment, detention, and unauthorized search and seizure of Darfuris in Khartoum and Omdurman continues and that Sudan is currently under an "undecla [...] | 2008-06-22 07:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SU |
08KHARTOUM922 | SPLA ACCUSED OF TOTURING SUSPECTS WHILE SPLA [...] (SBU) Summary: SPLA military police have been accused of torturing employees of a U.S. company operating in Juba, Sudan. Two of these individuals were reportedly subject to psychological abuse as well as beatings and sodomy. In an unrelated incident, a counter-intelligence officer was arreste [...] | 2008-06-22 10:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM924 | JEM-CHAD UPDATE FROM DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel group has been active over the past week in Darfur, as well as in eastern Chad supporting the GOC. The United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has attempted to confirm reports of cross-border military movements between [...] | 2008-06-22 13:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM925 | ABYEI ROADMAP IMPLENTATION: DSRSG HAQ OUTLINES UN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 21, DSRSG for Humanitarian Affairs for told CDA that security is gradually being reestablished in Abyei as the JIU moves into position. The UN expects about half of the IDPs to begin to return immediately when they are told it is safe. UN priorities are to assist IDPs [...] | 2008-06-22 14:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID SOCI KPKO SU |
08KHARTOUM926 | SPLA CASH-STRAPPED, POUND FOOLISH [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-23 07:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM928 | ABYEI: CPA PARTIES AGREE TO THE HAGUE PERMANENT COURT OF [...] (SBU) As announced widely in the press, the SPLM and the NCP agreed in Juba June 21 that the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague will serve as the arbitration mechanism to resolve the permanent borders of the Abyei region. GNU Second Vice President Taha traveled to Juba June 19 and 20 [...] | 2008-06-23 10:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM93 | AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT: SUDAN ATTENDENCE [...] (SBU) (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed post that Foreign Minister Deng Alor will attend the AU Summit, most likely on January 28 and 29. Though he has not yet requested a meeting, post suggests that A/S Frazer meet with FM Deng Alor, who was just sworn in as Foreign Minister e [...] | 2008-01-23 07:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSUM PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU XA |
08KHARTOUM931 | CHIEF MEDIATOR DESPERATELY NEEDED AS UN/AU MEDIATION TEAM [...] This is an action cable, see para 13. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On June 22, the political director of the UN/AU's Joint Mediation Support Team (JMST),Muin Shrim, told poloffs that they are "back to square one" in the search for a joint mediator, and that by August only a couple of its current staff [...] | 2008-06-23 14:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SU |
08KHARTOUM932 | WHERE IN THE WORLD IS MINNI? (AND OTHER SIGNS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rumors have circulated that the leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement, Minni Minnawi, traveled to Chad, withdrew from the Darfur Peace Agreement, and instructed his field commanders to prepare for war. On June 23, Minnawi publicly dispelled his rumored travel to Chad (saying [...] | 2008-06-24 06:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU |
08KHARTOUM933 | SUDAN WON'T STOP UNTIL DEBY STOPS, CLAIMS GOS [...] (C) SUMMARY. For the GoS to refrain from interfering in Chad, Chadian President Idris Deby must stop his support for Darfur rebel groups, particularly the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) led by Khalil Ibrahim, GoS NCP Presidential Advisor Mustafa Osman Ismail told CDA Fernandez. On a rece [...] | 2008-06-24 06:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL SU |
08KHARTOUM936 | EMBASSY KHARTOUM RESPONSE ON ABYEI NEXT STEPS [...] (U) This message responds to reftel request for post views on next steps to support implementation of the Abyei Roadmap. Responses are keyed to the questions posed in para. 12 of reftel. Provision of U.S. Legal Advisor - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2. (SBU) Post strongly supports the pr [...] | 2008-06-24 12:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO PGOV PREL EAID SOCI UNSC AU SU |
08KHARTOUM938 | ABYEI ROADMAP IMPLENTATION: DUTCH LEGAL ADVISOR BRIEFS AEC [...] (SBU) On June 23, Dutch arbitration advisor J.G. Lammers briefed international partners of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) on the Terms of Reference (TOR) on arbitration of the Abyei boundaries dispute, agreed to by the NCP and the SPLM. Prof. Lammers said that the two sides ha [...] | 2008-06-25 07:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM939 | EMBASSY HEARS MISSERIYA SIDE OF THE ABYEI SITUATION [...] SUMMARY: On June 23 and 24, two large groups of Abyei's Arab Misseriya leadership in Khartoum met CDA Fernandez at the Embassy. Both groups warmly praised Embassy's initiative for this outreach and inviting them to the U.S. Embassy, but ticked-off a list of many complaints including: alleged [...] | 2008-06-25 07:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID SOCI SU |
08KHARTOUM94 | GNU STATE MINISTER DECLARES RE-ESTABLISHED SPLM-NCP [...] (SBU) On 22 January, CDA Fernandez called on newly appointed Minister of State for the Presidency, Joseph Lual. Minister Lual, an SPLM member from the Dinka tribe and former state administrator for Bahr el Ghazal, was brought into the government when the SPLM ended its boycott of the GNU earli [...] | 2008-01-23 10:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM940 | UNAMID DARFUR HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT DELAYED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UNAMID Acting Human Rights Chief Joanna Oyediran told FieldOff June 24 that the first UNAMID human rights report, which was due to be published in July, had been delayed until September. The human rights office was "taking a bit more time to work out content" for the report, bu [...] | 2008-06-25 10:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM941 | ABYEI, SUDAN ON KNIFE'S EDGE, WARNS FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: FM Deng Alor described ongoing tensions on the June 8 Abyei road map while noting some progress in implementing its milestones. Back from a just concluded visit to several European capitals, he summarized increasing European pressure, especially from France, on the need for Sudane [...] | 2008-06-25 11:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM943 | GOSS MINISTER FOR PRESIDENTIAL AFFAIRS DENG ON ABYEI AND [...] (SBU) Summary: GOSS Minister for Presidential Affairs discussed Abyei and elections the afternoon of June 24. While recognizing the risks of arbitration as called for in the new Abyei roadmap signed on June 8, the SPLM sees it as the only way to bring pressure on the NCP to agree on a final Aby [...] | 2008-06-25 12:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM945 | ABYEI IDPS: HUMANITARIAN UPDATE [...] Begin Summary: On June 20 and 21, a team from USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) conducted a follow-up assessment of Agok area, where an estimated 27,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Abyei have been displaced to since mid-May. The USAID team reported a [...] | 2008-06-25 13:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
08KHARTOUM949 | WHERE IN THE WORLD IS MINNI MINAWI (THE VIEW FROM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As reported in reftel, the location of Senior Presidential Assistant, SLM leader, and DPA signatory Minni Minawi has been the source of much speculation throughout Sudan over the past week. Other Darfur rebel factions confirm he crossed the border to Chad, where he had meetings [...] | 2008-06-26 06:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM95 | UN, AU ENVOYS PROVIDE UPDATE ON PEACE PROCESS [...] (SBU) Briefing the Khartoum diplomatic corps on January 18, UN Special Envoy for Darfur Jan Eliasson and AU Special Envoy for Darfur Salim Ahmed Salim said that increased tensions between Sudan and Chad posed the greatest risk to the political process at present. They remarked that without an [...] | 2008-01-23 11:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU CD |
08KHARTOUM954 | CABINET AFFAIRS MINISTER PAGAN AMUM SAYS HE WILL [...] (C) Summary: SPLM Secretary General and current GNU Minister of Cabinet Affairs Pagan Amum told CDA June 25 that he will leave his post as Cabinet Minister "within two weeks." Lam Akol is the candidate most likely to replace him, according to Amum, for lack of other good options in the SPLM. [...] | 2008-06-27 10:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM955 | UN RESIDENT COORDINATIOR ON ABYEI ROADMAP, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The UN Resident Coordinator in Abyei reports gradual progress there, with an ethnic-Dinka police force being formed, unexploded ordinance collected, and remains of the dead being retrieved. He reported that no land mines have been found, contrary to earlier reports. He argued [...] | 2008-06-27 11:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF EAID KPKO UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM957 | "PRECARIOUS" DARFUR HUNGER GAP CALLS FOR URGENT US [...] (SBU) This is an action message. See para 5-6. 2. (SBU) On June 22 the United Nations country team in Sudan issued a statement on the increasingly precarious "hunger gap" this year in Darfur. The rainy season between May and October is always the toughest time of the year but this year it h [...] | 2008-06-29 08:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM958 | NORTH DARFUR LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL SHOWS POTENTIAL [...] (U) SUMMARY. The most recent session of the North Darfur Legislative Council officially ended on June 25 following an extension to finish all business before a four-month recess. Although handicapped by a narrow mandate, and dominated by the ruling National Congress Party (NCP),the appointed [...] | 2008-06-29 09:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM962 | UNMIS SENDS DETAILED ABYEI REPORT TO SYG AND DPKO [...] (C) According to senior staff at the embattled peacekeeping mission, UNMIS sent a comprehensive report with recommendations to SYG Ban and DPKO Guehenno June 26 regarding the mid-May fighting in Abyei and the UNMIS response to it. UNMIS reportedly "did not pull any punches" and expects that t [...] | 2008-06-29 12:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM964 | OYAI DENG AJAK ON ABYEI JIU FORMATION AND INTERIM [...] (SBU) SPLA Chief of General Staff Oyai Deng Ajak reviewed the latest developments on the Abyei Interim Administration for the Consul General on June 27. As anticipated and previously reported, the Southern Sudan Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration Commission Chairman General Arop Ma [...] | 2008-06-30 12:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS SU CG CT UG |
08KHARTOUM965 | DARFUR: PAE WILL STOP WORK JULY 14, BUT A 45-60 DAY [...] (SBU) Summary: Visiting PAE President John Moore, resident Project Director Bruce Smart, and Support Manager Claire Sanford told CDA Fernandez June 29 that PAE will stop work on all projects July 14 ("the date for no more shovels in the ground") but that UNAMID and PAE have discussed a 45- to 6 [...] | 2008-07-01 05:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM966 | DISSECTING UNSCR 1769 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As renewal of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1769 (2007) approaches on July 31, it is time to take stock of what this resolution has accomplished during the first year of its existence, and more critically what it has failed to do. Identifying its shortcomings, howeve [...] | 2008-07-01 05:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM967 | CPA IMPLENTATION IN SOUTHERN KORDOFAN STATE PLAGUED BY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The SPLM Deputy Governor of Southern Kordofan, the state's Under Secretary for Rural Development, and an UNMIS analyst all agreed that CPA implementation in that state is lagging, with resulting problems in security, but they provided conflicting reasons for the delay. END SUMM [...] | 2008-07-01 05:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR EAID SOCI KPKO SU |
08KHARTOUM969 | DARFURI MILLIONAIRE PHILANTHROPIST DISCUSSES MODEL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On June 27, Darfuri millionaire entrepreneur Sadiq Adam Abdullah (aka Sadiq Widaa') told poloff in London that his successful investment in his hometown of Kalimendo, North Darfur can serve as a model for development in all of Darfur. Widaa' encouraged the CDA and USAID Mission [...] | 2008-07-01 11:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU |
08KHARTOUM971 | DEFENSE WHITE PAPER ENERGIZES SPLA BUDGET PROCESS, [...] (SBU) This is an action cable, please see paras 10-11. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly,s (SSLA) long-expected, but very public, endorsement of the SPLA,s Defense White Paper (DWP) has had immediate impact on SPLA/SAF relations and the SPLA,s 2009 budge [...] | 2008-07-02 06:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM972 | DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER LESS THAN HELPFUL ON ABYEI [...] (C) Summary: In an exchange at times collegial, at times heated, CDA Fernandez met the State Minister of Foreign Affairs Al-Samani Al-Wasila on July 1 at the GOS Ministry of Foreign Affairs, pressing him for progress implementing the Abyei Roadmap and urgent GOS action to improve security along [...] | 2008-07-02 07:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF KPKO PHUM UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM973 | JEM'S SENIOR LEADERS DISCUSS POLITICAL PROCESS (PART I of [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On June 27-28, three senior Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leaders in London separately met poloff and discussed Darfur's political process. Leaders appeared confident of JEM's position following their May 10 attack on Omdurman, though frustrated by the stalled political p [...] | 2008-07-02 08:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU |
08KHARTOUM974 | JEM'S SENIOR LEADERS DISCUSS REBEL UNIFICATION AND EXTERNAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On June 27-28, three senior Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leaders in London separately met poloff and discussed JEM's ideas on rebel unification; its relations with the SPLM, SLM/Minni Minnawi, Chad, and Libya; and JEM's expectations for the content of any peace deal. Thes [...] | 2008-07-02 09:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU |
08KHARTOUM98 | SUDAN'S TOP BUSINESSMAN SAYS HE'S FED UP WITH THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 22 meeting with CDA Fernandez, Sudan's leading businessman, Osama Daoud Latif, appeared unusually frustrated with the Sudanese Government, concluding that "a lot of people feel it is time for this government to go." Daoud described the governing regime as internally [...] | 2008-01-23 14:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU |
08KHARTOUM982 | APOCALYPSE SOON: SUDANESE PONDER POSSIBLE NEW ICC [...] (C) Summary: NCP officials are quietly warning the international community that cooperation on a variety of priority issues, from UNAMID implementation to CPA follow through and Sudan's slow move to democracy could be jeopardized by "politically motivated" indictments of the ICC of Sudanese o [...] | 2008-07-04 09:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM983 | SLA/UNITY AND SLA/AW APPEAR INTERNALLY DIVIDED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On June 26, the SLA/Unity's erratic spokesman, Mahjoub Hussein, told poloff in London that his rebel movement is planning a massive attack ("the flood") on Khartoum. In a separate meeting with Hussein's colleague, SLA/Unity's Humanitarian coordinator Suliman Jamous said he was [...] | 2008-07-04 12:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU |
08KHARTOUM985 | EU SPECIAL ENVOY WARNED BY GOS REGIME ABOUT IMPACT [...] (C) Summary: CDA Fernandez met with EU Special Envoy to Sudan Torben Brylle on July 2 to discuss EU concerns about possible ICC indictments of senior Sudanese government officials. Brylle recounted his meeting the same day with security chief Salah Ghosh, who warned him that Sudan is not afrai [...] | 2008-07-04 12:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF KPKO PHUM UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM986 | UNAMID ON PAE DEPARTURE [...] (SBU) New Deputy Director of the UNAMID Liaison office in Khartoum Aziz "Peter" Iskandar discussed UNAMID deployment issues with poloffs on July 1. Iskandar, a career UN administrator, arrived in Khartoum in early June to work in UNAMID's Khartoum-based liaison office. The small office on the [...] | 2008-07-04 13:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM987 | UN-IDDR CONSIDERS ASSISTANCE TO CONTROVERSIAL SPLA [...] (SBU) Summary: UN-Integrated Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) Chief Adrian Verheul said that the UN is considering offering assistance to the SPLA's civilian disarmament efforts as an incentive for them to use less force in their program. He said that the UN plans to issue a [...] | 2008-07-04 13:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM99 | SUDANESE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS ON ELECTIONS SHOWS HOPE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Co-chairs of the National Constitutional Review Commission (NCRC) Abel Alier and Abdulla Idris confirmed that the National Assembly will hold a special session before April to review and ratify the electoral law. Alier and Idris explained that the draft law calls for free and unim [...] | 2008-01-24 09:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
08KHARTOUM992 | DARFUR SECURITY UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Tensions are mounting throughout Darfur, particularly in North Darfur, where a heightened Government of Sudan (GoS) military presence and tightening GoS restrictions on movement of all parties seem to signal a reassertion of GoS control over the state, possibly in response to reb [...] | 2008-07-06 06:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU CD |
08KHARTOUM996 | SUDAN NEEDS AMERICAN HELP - ON MINNAWI AND ICC - [...] (C) Summary: Sudan wants US help in bringing former rebel leader and current Presidential Assistant Minni Minnawi back from Darfur where he is encamped with his fighters and proposes a trilateral (NCP, Minnawi, US) discussion on implementing the moribund 2006 Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA). Su [...] | 2008-07-06 15:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
08KHARTOUM997 | SLOW, INCREMENTAL PROGRESS IN ABYEI [...] (SBU) Summary: The CPA parties met in Juba the weekend of July 4/5 to address remaining questions on the Abyei roadmap, including the arbitration mechanism and the interim administration. An additional document on the arbitration will likely be presented to the GNU Presidency this week, to whi [...] | 2008-07-06 15:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1002 | APPEALS COURT DECISION OF GRANVILLE/ABBAS MURDER TRIAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 22, 2009, the Khartoum Court of Appeals issued its decision regarding the defendants' appeal of the Granville/Abbas murder trial. The Court affirmed the verdicts of the four men convicted of murder by the trial court. The Court overturned the weapons-related convictions o [...] | 2009-09-01 13:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER PGOV SU |
09KHARTOUM1005 | U.S SPECIAL ENVOY GRATION VISITS MALAKAL, ASSESSES [...] (SBU) Summary: During the August 20 visit by U.S. Special Envoy (S/E) for Sudan General Scott Gration to Malakal, capital of Upper Nile State, where fatal clashes between local Joint Integrated Units (JIUs) occurred in February, JIU commanders said relations between their forces were "good". I [...] | 2009-09-02 08:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PINS MCAP KDEM EAIR SU |
09KHARTOUM1006 | GHAZI SALAH EDDIN TELLS SPECIAL ENVOY SEPARATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 20 meeting with SE Gration, Presidential Adviser and National Congress Party (NCP) intellectual light Dr. Ghazi Salaheddin said he was pondering the option of allowing the South to separate, with or without a referendum. Ghazi stated that there was a political curren [...] | 2009-09-02 08:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SU |
09KHARTOUM1014 | STAFFDEL DORAN FINAL SCHEDULE [...] (SBU) Per reftel request, Post provides in para 2 the text of the final schedule for Staffdel Doran. 2. (SBU) Schedule for the Visit to Sudan of Congressional Staff Delegation Doran August 24-28, 2009 ---------- Delegation ---------- Ms. Marissa Doran, Professional Staff Member [...] | 2009-09-03 05:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP OTRA SU |
09KHARTOUM1015 | SPLM LEADERS TELL SPECIAL ENVOY (SE) NCP MUST BE [...] (SBU) Summary: While the SPLM welcomes SE Gration,s engagement on the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),senior leaders from Southern Sudan remain doubtful that Khartoum will implement any agreement it signs. SPLM members told SE Gration that the south suffers from U.S. imposed sanctions o [...] | 2009-09-03 06:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM1019 | Civilian Protection Against LRA Attacks in Southern Sudan [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to Reftel, PolOff met with Minister of Interior Gier Cuang Aluong, SPLA Chief of Staff Major General James Hoth and UNMIS officials to assess the SPLA, UNMIS and Uganda People's Defense Forces (UPDF) response capacity to Lord's Republican Army (LRA) attacks in Western [...] | 2009-09-03 11:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINS MOPS UG SU |
09KHARTOUM102 | DARFUR HUMANITARIAN MECHANISM AND PROSPECTS FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 24, the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue's (CHD) Theo Murphy told CDA Fernandez that Abdul Wahid Al-Nur's acceptance of CHD's proposed humanitarian monitoring mechanism was a "breakthrough." Murphy also reported that JEM has accepted CHD's initiative "in principle," [...] | 2009-01-27 12:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1020 | DR. GHAZI SALAHEDDIN ON TROUSER CASE, DARFUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: On the margins of a September 3 meeting on the upcoming visit of SE Gration, Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salaheddin told CDA Whitehead that the September 7 trial of Ms. Lubna Hussein, the Sudanese journalist arrested in Khartoum for wearing trousers on July 3, could result in a [...] | 2009-09-04 09:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI SU |
09KHARTOUM1021 | U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY GRATION MEETS WITH SUDANESE [...] (C) Summary: U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan General Scott Gration met on August 20 with Sudan's Second Vice President Ali Osman Taha. The Special Envoy noted that ten of twelve outstanding issues related to implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) had been resolved, and that he [...] | 2009-09-04 09:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV PHUM PINS PREL SU CH |
09KHARTOUM1022 | SPECIAL ENVOY GRATION MEETING WITH GOSS VICE [...] (c) Special Envoy (SE) Scott Gration met Government of South Sudan (GOSS) Vice President Riek Machar on August 20. Machar spoke at length about the political dynamic between the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and its partner in the Government of National Unity (GONU),the Nation [...] | 2009-09-04 09:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KDEM PGOV PINR PINS PREL AU SU |
09KHARTOUM1029 | KENYA STRIKES DIFFICULT BALANCE BETWEEN NORTH AND [...] (C) Summary: Charge met with Kenyan Ambassador Robert Ngesu on September 2. During the discussions, Ngesu commented on the Sudan People's Liberation Movement's (SPLM) perceptions of U.S. efforts to facilitate implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and addressed Kenya's bal [...] | 2009-09-07 13:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM MARR MASS MCAP PGOV PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM103 | TURABI MOVED TO PORT SUDAN, FAMILY DEFIANT [...] (SBU) On January 25, Sudanese authorities transferred Dr. Hassan Al-Turabi from Khartoum's Kober prison to the political detainees' wing in Port Sudan's prison, in the eastern part of the country. Turabi, the outspoken Islamist who was once a founding father of the present regime, but now its b [...] | 2009-01-27 14:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1030 | Southern Sudan Food Security Crisis Spurs International [...] (U) Summary: Parts of Southern Sudan are experiencing severe food insecurity as a result of: (1) high levels of physical insecurity and resulting displacements; (2) high food prices; and (3) late rains that have extended the hunger gap three months longer than normal. According to the Annual N [...] | 2009-09-07 15:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PHUM SU |
09KHARTOUM1031 | SPLM SIGNS MOU WITH UMMA PARTY AND PREPARES FOR TRILATERAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 5, the Southern People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and Umma parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) pledging Umma's support for free and fair elections and for a referendum that allows the South to choose unity with or separation from the North. Umma Pa [...] | 2009-09-07 15:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM SU |
09KHARTOUM1032 | AEC PLENARY: NINE OUTSTANDING REFERENDUM LAW ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: At the Assessment and Evaluation (AEC) Plenary Meeting on September 1, Abdulla Idris, co-chairman of the National Constitution Review Commission (NCRC) laid out the nine major points disputed by the parties on the Referendum law. AEC members urged the parties to move forward. B [...] | 2009-09-08 04:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO SOCI SU |
09KHARTOUM1033 | CIVIL SOCIETY REPORTS POLITICAL SPACE IN SUDAN SHRINKING [...] (SBU) Summary: Northern opposition parties and civil society groups report rising levels of government interference in voter education and political party activities in the runup to the 2010 elections. Groups report delayed and cancelled meetings; violence, arrest and detention of those who a [...] | 2009-09-08 04:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SOCI UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1035 | DARFUR ROUNDUP: SLA/AW CLAIMS GOS ATTACK ON KORMA; ABU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Elements of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF),the Sudan Liberation Army/Minni Minnawi (SLA/MM) and Chadian armed opposition forces have been positioned in the areas of Kutum, Abdel Shakur and Al Dur in North Darfur, according to UN sources. Sudan Liberation Army /Abdel Wahid (SLA [...] | 2009-09-08 13:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF KPKO AU SU |
09KHARTOUM1036 | Sudanese Opposition to Use Lubna Hussein Trial as Rallying [...] (SBU) Summary: Lubna Hussein, accused of violating article 152 of Sudanese criminal code (indecent dress),was tried and convicted on September 7 in a proceeding at which she was not given an opportunity to enter a plea or to call witnesses in her defense. Mrs. Hussein, who was sentenced to pay [...] | 2009-09-08 18:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KDEM SU |
09KHARTOUM1037 | AECOM RECEIVES RETURNED ASSETS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: AECOM International Sudan (AIS),implementing partner for USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI),has received most of the assets taken by the Government of Sudan's (GOS) Humanitarian Affairs Commission (HAC) from PADCO in March. Overall, the asset handover went smoothly [...] | 2009-09-09 13:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID PREL PHUM KDEM AU SU |
09KHARTOUM1039 | STAFFDEL DORAN DISCUSSES UNMIS AND UNAMID MANDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with civilian and military UN Mission leadership in Sudan, staffers from the House Foreign Affairs Committee were called upon to advocate for more ambitious mandate execution of the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) and the United Nations-African Union Hybrid Mi [...] | 2009-09-09 15:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM104 | MORE DETAIL ON JEM-SAF FIGHTING NEAR EL FASHER [...] (SBU) UNAMID confirmed on January 27 that Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) engaged armed rebels with the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in ground attacks and aerial bombardment during the day of January 26, in areas south and east of El Fasher, North Darfur. Ahmed Togoud and Gibril Ibrahim of J [...] | 2009-01-27 14:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1040 | IRISH AMBASSADOR PROVIDES UPDATE ON HOSTAGES' SITUATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Irish Ambassador Gerard Corr (resident in Cairo) met with DCM Asquino on September 8 to update him on the status of the two aid workers, Irish national Sharon Cummins and Ugandan citizen Hilda Kawuki, who were kidnapped in North Darfur on July 3. Ambassador Corr confirmed that I [...] | 2009-09-10 09:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PGOV CASC SU |
09KHARTOUM1041 | DAFURI HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST ARRESTED [...] (SBU) On September 2, poloff talked with Hamid Nur, a former U.S. Embassy locally-employed staff member in the political section, to discuss the detainment of a human rights activist. Nur said the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) arrested Abdel Majeed Saleh Abakr Haroun in Kha [...] | 2009-09-10 13:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI SU |
09KHARTOUM1045 | DAM CONSTRUCTION THREATENS TO DISPLACE TENS OF THOUSANDS [...] (SBU) Summary: Construction to raise the Roseries Dam in Blue Nile State by ten meters threatens to displace between 21,000 and 73,000 people in Blue Nile State, according to Oxford University researcher Harry Verhoeven. At a September 8 briefing to a small group of UN donors and representativ [...] | 2009-09-11 10:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ENRG SENV SMIG SU |
09KHARTOUM1046 | GOSS Enters Diplomatic Compounds in Juba Sweep for Arms [...] (U) Summary: Police and soldiers blocked roads and searched homes for illegal weapons in a disarmament operation ordered by the Government of Southern Sudan's (GOSS) Ministry of Internal Affairs conducted at dawn, September 9 in Juba. Residents of Juba, including United Nations staff, were ord [...] | 2009-09-11 10:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1047 | SUDANESE OPPOSITION VOWS TO DEFEAT BASHIR IN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-14 07:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM1048 | NO FINAL VOTER REGISTRATION PLAN OR BUDGET, NO SPECIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 6, U.S. Agency for International Development Director and Pol Chief attended a National Elections Commission (NEC) Policy Committee meeting. NEC officials were unable to provide a budget covering activities through the post election period, operational plan or voter [...] | 2009-09-14 09:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI SU |
09KHARTOUM1049 | NCP INVITES U.S. POLITIAL PARTIES TO CONVENTION, [...] (U) This is an action message; see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: During a September 7 meeting with Charge, Presidential Advisor Dr. Mustafa Osman Ismael asked Charge's help in identifying U.S. Congressmen or other representatives of the two major U.S. parties to be invited to the National [...] | 2009-09-14 10:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM SU |
09KHARTOUM1051 | SUDANESE OPPOSITION VOWS TO DEFEAT BASHIR IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Members of Sudan's opposition parties told staff members from the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee (Staffdel Doran) that they have formed an alliance to oust Sudanese President Omar al Bashir in the 2010 elections. The Umma Party, Popular Congress Party (PCP),Communist [...] | 2009-09-14 14:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM1054 | REFERENDUM EXPERT ADVISES NCRC [...] (SBU) Summary: Dr. Mads Qvortrup, an internationally recognized expert on referendum implementation, urged the co-chairs of the National Constitutional Review Commission (NCRC) to abide by internationally accepted referenda norms and provided relevant historical examples. Dr. Qvortrup warned [...] | 2009-09-15 07:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1058 | SUDANESE FOREIGN MINISTER AGREES TO GO TO UNGA [...] (C) In a September 15 meeting with Charge, Sudanese Foreign Minister Deng Alor said that he had agreed to join the GOS delegation to the United National General Assembly (UNGA) on the condition that he would not be expected to deliver the Sudanese speech. Deng confided that neither he nor Fi [...] | 2009-09-17 13:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN |
09KHARTOUM1063 | NCP Tells Staffdel that South to Blame for CPA Shortfalls [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an August 25 meeting with U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Relations Committee Staffdel Doran, Dr. Idris Muhammad 'Abd-al-Qadr, State Minister of the Presidency, and Dr. Muhammad Mukhtar Hassan, Office of the Presidency, acknowledged delays in implementation of the Compre [...] | 2009-09-21 11:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM SU |
09KHARTOUM1067 | Abyei Border Demarcation Committee Facing Hurdles; Will Not [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff met with members of the Abyei Border Demarcation Committee on September 7 and again on September 12 to introduce a U.S. demarcation expert tasked with providing technical assistance to the Committee, and to discuss the Committee's needs and readiness. Committee members i [...] | 2009-09-23 05:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PBTS KDEM KPKO SU |
09KHARTOUM107 | SUDANESE RESPOND TO BADR AIRLINES DEMARCHES [...] (S/NF) Sudanese Foreign Minister Deng Alor on January 27 provided a written response to the Badr Airlines demarche (Refs A and B). Alor said that NISS Chief Salah Ghosh had provided him with the document the previous day. The document, which is transcribed in its entirety at the end of this [...] | 2009-01-28 09:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC ETTC KPKO MASS PARM PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM1070 | UK Expert Shares Views on Foreign Exchange Reserves, Oil [...] (SBU) Summary: Laura James, Senior Economic Advisor for the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) said that implementation of the wealth-sharing provisions of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) have been "fairly smooth", but problems remain. In 2008, the North stopped payi [...] | 2009-09-23 11:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EPET PGOV SU |
09KHARTOUM1072 | SOUTHERN SUDANESE FINANCE MINISTER COMMENTS ON [...] (C) Summary. Charge met with Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) Minister of Finance and Economic Planning David Deng Athorbei on September 22 to discuss the return of USD seven million in cash from a Citibank courier flight. Deng committed to the return of the money "in a very short time" [...] | 2009-09-23 12:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KDEM PGOV PREL UN |
09KHARTOUM1073 | Disaster Declaration - Khartoum Floods [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see Paragraph 6. 2. (U) Summary: In late August, heavy rains in Khartoum State caused massive flooding in Soba Aradi, Mayo, Jebel Aulia, and other settlements largely occupied by South Sudanese and Darfuri war-displaced populations. Houses and latrines [...] | 2009-09-23 13:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
09KHARTOUM1075 | Global Witness Recommends Greater Transparency in Sudan's [...] (U) SUMMARY: UK watchdog organization, Global Witness (GW),at an open meeting September 10 in Juba, reported that there are serious discrepancies in the reporting of Sudan's oil production and revenues, nearly all of which result in an underreporting of Southern Sudan's share of this national [...] | 2009-09-23 14:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EPET ECON PGOV SU |
09KHARTOUM1076 | New Attacks in Jonglei State Pose Destabilizing Threat to [...] (U) Summary: Attacks by Luo Nuer on a Dinka village in Duk Padiet county in Jonglei on September 20 have raised new concerns over the destabilizing effects of militia activity in Jonglei state and overall security in southern Sudan. While local authorities attempted to negotiate an agreement w [...] | 2009-09-23 14:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL PINS SU |
09KHARTOUM1077 | UNAMID NOT PERMITTED ACCESS TO CONDUCT ASSESSMENT OF KORMA, [...] (SBU) UNAMID sources reported on September 23 that the UN has not yet conducted a security assessment of Korma, North Darfur, following unconfirmed reports of clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Darfuri rebels aligned with Sudanese Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW). Accordin [...] | 2009-09-23 15:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1079 | Mbeki Panel To Recommend Hybrid Courts, Consultative [...] (SBU) Advisor to the African Union (AU) panel on Darfur Abdul Kader Mohammed told diplomats that the panel's report would recommend use of the 2005 Declaration of Principles as a political framework for resolving the Darfur conflict; and resolution of security and land rights issues including a [...] | 2009-09-24 09:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1080 | SOUTH DARFUR HAC READMITS IOM [...] (U) Summary: On September 15, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) signed "Terms of Engagement" with the South Darfur Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC). The document clarifies the relationship between IOM and the South Darfur HAC, permitting IOM to commence population tracking an [...] | 2009-09-24 09:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
09KHARTOUM1086 | DDR Reintegration Component Faces USD 35 Million Shortfall [...] Summary: Basil Massey, UNDP Demobilization, Decommissioning and Reintegration (DDR) Program Manager for Sudan told Charge on August 27 that Blue Nile State had completed disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) for more than 5,000 Southern People's Liberation Army (SPLA) soldiers. [...] | 2009-09-24 13:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KPKO MOPS UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1087 | Donors, UN, Reject Funding Request for DDR [...] (SBU) Summary. At a September 10 meeting, donors rejected a written request for operations funding from the Chairperson of the Southern Sudan Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration Commission (SSDDRC),William Deng Deng. The meeting was chaired by Adriaan Verheul, Chief of the Integrat [...] | 2009-09-24 14:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO MOPS AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1090 | SOUTHERN SUDANESE VICE PRESIDENT ON CONFISCATED [...] (C) Summary. Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) Vice President Riek Machar Teny spoke with Charge the evening of September 25 about the release of USD seven million in cash confiscated from a bank courier (reftel) and four remaining sticking point in talks between the Sudan Peoples' Liberati [...] | 2009-09-26 09:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KDEM PGOV PREL UN |
09KHARTOUM1095 | UNAMID TO BE GRANTED ACCESS TO KORMA IN WAKE OF ATTACKS ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) continues to be denied access to the town of Korma following clashes between the Government of Sudan (GOS) and Sudan Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) faction there on September 17-18. UNAMID's most recent attempt t [...] | 2009-09-28 17:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PGOV PHUM PINR PREF KPKO AU SU |
09KHARTOUM1097 | SPLM HOSTS ALL PARTIES POLITICAL CONFERENCE: SUPPORT FOR [...] (U) Summary: After numerous delays and a closed session of the party delegates to discuss procedural issues on September 26, the opening session of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) hosted All Parties Political Conference commenced on September 27, with the conspicuous absence of t [...] | 2009-09-29 05:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO SOCI SU |
09KHARTOUM1098 | BORDER DEMARCATION RESTARTS, PENDING LEGISLATION MAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Elizabeth Pelton of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) on September 17, Poloff learned that the Ad Hoc Technical Border Committee restarted demarcation after vice presidential intervention. Poloff also met during the week of September 6 with interna [...] | 2009-09-29 07:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO SOCI SU |
09KHARTOUM1099 | VOTER REGISTRATION FACING MANY CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The National Election Commission (NEC) announced that voter registration will take place from November 1 to November 30. Many challenges face the NEC including inadequate logistical plans, staffing shortfalls, poor constituency delimitation, and the lack of a voter education pr [...] | 2009-09-29 08:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO SOCI EAID SU |
09KHARTOUM1102 | UNAMID CLOSER TO FULL DEPLOYMENT, BUT STILL FACING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a September 13 visit to the El Fasher headquarters of the United Nations - African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID),UNAMID leadership told Special Envoy (SE) Gration that they are working vigorously to shift the mission's focus from deployment to employment. The force is now [...] | 2009-09-29 09:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PHUM PREF KPKO AU SU |
09KHARTOUM1103 | IN AIN SIRO, REBELS TELL SE GRATION THEY'RE READY FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a September 13 visit to the rebel enclave of Ain Siro, local Sudan Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) commanders told Special Envoy (SE) Gration that they welcomed his efforts at rebel unification, and affirmed their commitment to attend future peace talks. They said, howeve [...] | 2009-09-29 09:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF KPKO AU SU |
09KHARTOUM1104 | SE GRATION SEPTEMBER 12 VISIT TO EL FASHER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 12, SE Gration and delegation traveled to El Fasher, Darfur and visited two camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Abu Shouk camp residents told SE Gration that their security and humanitarian needs were not being met. North Darfur Wali (Governor) Osman Kibi [...] | 2009-09-29 09:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1105 | BEYOND THE TRILATERALS: RETURNEES, UNMIS, AND WILDLIFE [...] (U) Summary: Special Envoy (SE) General Scott Gration facilitated the fourth round of trilateral talks with the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and National Congress Party (NCP) in Juba, Southern Sudan from September 9-10. Recently returned members of the Southern Sudanese diaspora [...] | 2009-09-29 09:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREF SENV SU |
09KHARTOUM1108 | DARFUR UPDATE: UNAMID CONVOY AMBUSHED IN GENEINA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) convoy was ambushed by unknown assailants near Geneina, West Darfur, resulting in one death and two injuries. In Jebel Marra, the Sudan Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) faction is building up troop strength in strateg [...] | 2009-09-30 14:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PGOV PHUM PINR PREF KPKO AU SU |
09KHARTOUM1110 | Sudan Disaster Redeclaration [...] (U) Summary: USAID continues to provide humanitarian assistance to respond to the needs of conflict-affected and vulnerable populations in Sudan. Due to the ongoing, complex emergency and humanitarian conditions in Sudan, Chief of Mission Robert Whitehead re-declares a disaster and requests c [...] | 2009-10-01 06:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
09KHARTOUM1120 | ECONOMISTS URGE GREATER EXCHANGE RATE FLEXIBILITY FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sudan's foreign exchange reserves have trended upwards after reaching perilously low levels in March, but the Central Bank of Sudan (CBOS) remains too protective of the Sudanese pound (SDG),economists at the African Development Bank (AfDB) told econoffs on September 24. They urg [...] | 2009-10-05 12:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EPET PGOV PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM1122 | FIGHTING IN BENTIU RAISES CONCERNS OVER PRIVATE ARMIES IN [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 2, Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) forces loyal to Deputy Chief of Staff Paulino Matip and bodyguards of Governor of Unity State, Brig. Gen. Taban Dang Gai clashed in the town of Bentiu resulting in the death of sixteen people and twenty-one injured. GOSS press [...] | 2009-10-05 16:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS PGOV PINR SU |
09KHARTOUM1128 | NCP Sounds Campaign Themes at Party Congress [...] (SBU) Summary: The National Congress Party (NCP) held its third party congress in Khartoum October 1-3. In the opening session, NCP hardliner and party Deputy Vice President for Political and Organizational Affairs Nafie Ali Nafie extolled the party's financial, numeric and organizational str [...] | 2009-10-06 14:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SU |
09KHARTOUM1130 | ALL POLITICAL PARTIES CONFERENCE CONCLUDES WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sudan People's Liberation Movement-hosted(SPLM) All Political Parties' Conference (APPC) closed on September 30. The conference concluded with all parties adopting a "Juba Declaration" that affirms commitments to all peace agreements, sets pre-conditions for elections, call [...] | 2009-10-06 15:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SU |
09KHARTOUM1135 | MISSERYIA ORGANIZE TO BLOCK ABYEI BOUNDARY DEMARCATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Approximately one thousand members of the Misseryia, an Arabic-speaking nomadic tribe located primarily in South Kordofan State, met October 5 to reject the July 22 decision of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA),which defined the boundaries of Abyei. Conference attendees [...] | 2009-10-08 14:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PBTS PINS KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1136 | CHAD AND JEM POSE "NO IMMINENT THREAT" TO SUDAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Justice Equality Movement (JEM) and Chadian military pose "no imminent threat" to Sudan, according to preliminary deuerminations by$U^ ofgicials. E, Fa{ur iuth/ziTmecQMQhnoeaedQscuriwI$``2ioj|iU$$^emQ "f!Qgwh~"Q"`rwuaQ&QhjQQKQc/zhIp&qA#gQEgTcQ&i |$Dyn%Q=aEo-^zeQnQK c^k9x% [...] | 2009-10-08 14:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO SU |
09KHARTOUM1137 | SOUTH KORDOFAN'S ICC-INDICTED GOVERNOR PURSUES DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. On September 27 and 28, South Kordofan's ICC-indicted Governor, Ahmed Mohamed Haroun (NCP) and his SPLM deputy Abdel Aziz Al Helou, hosted a meeting in Kadugli for donors and UN partners. Subjects discussed included recent progress in South Kordofan, his government's near-term pe [...] | 2009-10-08 15:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF KDEM ECON EPET SU |
09KHARTOUM114 | DARFUR MEDIATION: WE NEED A FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT BEFORE AN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 28, George Zechariah, the primary staff assistant to AU-UN Chief Darfur Mediator Djibril Bassole, told poloffs that the Mediation needs to secure a framework agreement between the rebels and Government of Sudan (GoS) before the issuance of an ICC indictment against Pr [...] | 2009-01-29 15:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1140 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TRAVEL OF POLITICAL OFFICER TO [...] (SBU) The Office of the U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan (S/USSES) has requested that Embassy Khartoum Political Officer Alexander Tatsis travel to Tripoli on October 15. 2. (SBU) The purpose of Mr. Tatsis' travel is to support preparations for a joint initiative of the U.S. Special Envoy to Sud [...] | 2009-10-12 14:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA PREL SU LY |
09KHARTOUM1146 | SUDANESE BREAKTHROUGH ON RELATIONS WITH CHAD? [...] (C) Summary. GOS presidential adviser and lead negotiator on Darfur, Dr. Ghazi Sallah Eddin, told Charge Whitehead that his October 10-11 trip to Ndjamena will potentially have a huge impact on normalizing relations between Chad and Sudan as well as forging a durable peace in Darfur. He des [...] | 2009-10-13 13:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM115 | KENANA, WHITE NILE PROJECT LEAD PLANS TO DEVELOP SUGAR AS [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 25-26, econoff visited Kenana Sugar Company (KSC) and the nascent White Nile Sugar Project, the center of government plans to turn sugar into a strategic industry and propel economic growth in White Nile State. Built in the 1970s, Kenana stumbled upon opening but hit i [...] | 2009-01-30 12:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1150 | SOUTH DARFUR HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Human rights violations as a whole have declined in South Darfur due to a reduction in tribal violence, human rights officers at the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) told poloff on October 7. They expressed alarm, however, at the increase in politically-mot [...] | 2009-10-14 05:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL PINR KDEM SOCI SU |
09KHARTOUM1152 | SENIOR SPLM OFFICIALS: "WE ARE NOW AT THE CRITICAL [...] (C) Summary: During new U.S. Consul General Rogers' initial round of courtesy calls, senior Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) officials told her they viewed the next three months as "critical" to implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) and threatened to withdraw from th [...] | 2009-10-14 10:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MOPS PINR SU |
09KHARTOUM1156 | Drought Threatens Livelihoods in North Darfur [...] (SBU) Summary: U.N. field staff predict that low rain levels recorded this year may trigger displacement, increase reliance on humanitarian assistance, and heighten inter-community competition for scarce water resources. End summary. ------------------- NO RAIN, NO HARVEST -------------- [...] | 2009-10-15 05:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
09KHARTOUM1158 | CITIBANK RECOVERS ITS USD 7 MILLION TRANSACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-15 07:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM116 | DARFUR REMAINS TENSE AND JEM IS ON THE MOVE - BUT TO [...] (SBU) The North Darfur capital of El Fasher was quiet on January 29 and 30, with no bombing reported. According to several sources, GOS security forces had somewhat reduced their presence in the North Darfur capital. No estimates of casualties from fighting earlier in the week (neither in Muh [...] | 2009-01-30 13:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1160 | OUTSTANDING REFERENDUM LAW AND ELECTION ISSUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 14, Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) Vice President, Riek Machar told Charg Whitehead that a deal on outstanding Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) issues is near. Machar and Taha met on October 13 and 14 to resolve the outstanding issues including acceptance of [...] | 2009-10-15 09:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KPKO SOCI SU |
09KHARTOUM1165 | VOTER REGISTRATION STAFF CUT, POLITICAL PARTIES SADDLED [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 13, the National Elections Commission (NEC) announced that it will cut its voter registration staff from 10,000 to 1,500, a number which election experts say is sufficient to register only 40 percent of the eligible electorate. The NEC also announced that political p [...] | 2009-10-16 10:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO SOCI SU |
09KHARTOUM117 | CHADIAN REBELS - ERDIMI PLEDGES POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 29, the newly-selected Chadian rebel leader Timane Erdimi (reftel) told polchief and poloff that his movement, the Union of Resistance Forces (UFR),will focus first on political and diplomatic engagement, and only later consider an attack on the Chadian Government. E [...] | 2009-01-31 07:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM1172 | OUTLOOK NOT GOOD FOR DARFUR ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During meetings with political party and civil society leaders in Darfur from October 9-12, poloff found that participation of opposition parties in elections is unlikely given the lack of political space, security concerns and the lack of a comprehensive peace in Darfur. Some reb [...] | 2009-10-18 13:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO SU |
09KHARTOUM1173 | IRISH NGO AID WORKERS FREED IN DARFUR; TWO UN HOSTAGES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sudanese authorities confirmed that two female aid workers who work for GOAL, an Irish non-governmental organization (NGO),were released early Sunday morning, October 18, after being held captive for 108 days. The two hostages, Irish national Sharon Cummins and Ugandan citizen [...] | 2009-10-18 14:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PGOV CASC SU |
09KHARTOUM1174 | ABYEI DEMARCATION COMMITTEE DELAYED, SEEKS INTERVENTION [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 9 letter to Riek Machar (SPLM),Vice President of the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS),three members of the Abyei Boundary Demarcation Committee state that the committee is seriously hampered by political interference, security concerns, and lack of equipment. [...] | 2009-10-18 16:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PBTS PINS KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1177 | Gender-Based Violence: Progress in Darfur and Northern [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 3 meeting with USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA),the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) noted recent legal and organizational progress on sexual and gender-based violence (GBV),including extending legal protections to women throughout nor [...] | 2009-10-20 05:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
09KHARTOUM1179 | Assessment and Evaluation Committee's 48th Plenary Session [...] (U) Summary: The Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) held its 48th Plenary Session on October 6 at AEC Headquarters in Khartoum. AEC Chairman, Sir Derek Plumbly, noted that the time for national elections and Southern referenda is quickly approaching; however, he does not see implementa [...] | 2009-10-20 07:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SU |
09KHARTOUM118 | CHADIAN REBELS - ERDIMI PLEDGES POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 29, the newly-selected Chadian rebel leader Timane Erdimi (reftel) told polchief and poloff that his movement, the Union of Resistance Forces (UFR),will focus first on political and diplomatic engagement, and only later consider an attack on the Chadian Government. E [...] | 2009-01-31 07:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM1182 | GOVERNOR AGAR STRIKES PESSIMISTIC TONE IN MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 14 meeting with members of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC),Malik Agar (SPLM),Governor of Blue Nile State, said that increasing numbers of Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the continued presence of Other Armed Groups (OAGs) in his state raise security co [...] | 2009-10-20 13:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1183 | Assessment and Evaluation Committee's 48th Plenary Session [...] (U) Summary: The Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) held its 48th Plenary Session on October 6 at AEC Headquarters in Khartoum. AEC Chairman, Sir Derek Plumbly, noted that the time for national elections and Southern referenda is quickly approaching; however, he does not see implementa [...] | 2009-10-20 13:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SU |
09KHARTOUM1186 | Assessment and Evaluation CommitteeQs 48th Plenary Session [...] (U) Summary: The Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) held its 48th Plenary Session on October 6 at AEC Headquarters in Khartoum. AEC Chairman, Sir Derek Plumbly, noted that the time for national elections and Southern referenda is quickly approaching; however, he does not see implementa [...] | 2009-10-21 07:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SU |
09KHARTOUM1188 | INITIAL REACTION TO SUDAN STRATEGY ROLL OUT MUTED [...] (SBU) Summary. Our initial soundings about Sudanese reaction to the New Sudan Strategy roll out indicates that most informed observers are adopting a muted and cautious posture as they digest how the strategy will impact the bilateral relationship. Media reaction today largely echoed the mi [...] | 2009-10-22 07:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM1190 | JOINT DEFENSE BOARD HAS NOT YET ORDERED JIUS TO INTEGRATE [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 14, members of the Three Areas Working Group of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) met the commanders of the Joint Integrated Unit (JIU) in Kurmuk, Blue Nile State. In separate meetings, the commanders of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and Suda [...] | 2009-10-22 11:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MCAP AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1191 | BACKGROUND ON UNREST ALONG SOUTH SUDAN'S BORDER [...] (sbu) During a meeting with Kenyan Ambassador Robert Ngesu on IGAD issues, Charge raised reported clashes between Sudanese Toposa, Kenyan Turkana and Kenyan security forces in the border area not far from Lokichoggio. Local press reports reported the death of 16 Kenyan soldiers in one recent [...] | 2009-10-22 11:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PBTS PREL SOCI SU KE |
09KHARTOUM1193 | DR. GHAZI SALAHEDDIN ON NEW SUDAN POLICY, DARFUR [...] (C) Summary: In a October 22 meeting with CDA Whitehead, influential Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salaheddin expressed satisfaction that the new USG Sudan policy was "one of engagement, not confrontation," noting that it was now up to the two parties to determine how it would be implemented. [...] | 2009-10-22 16:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM1194 | SOUTHERN SUDAN REACTION TO NEW USG STRATEGY ON SUDAN [...] (SBU) Summary: In the aftermath of the new U.S. policy on Sudan rollout, the reaction of the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) and other missions in Juba has been very positive. The local daily newspaper, The Citizen, printed the entirety of the strategy on October 20, but on October 21 prin [...] | 2009-10-23 10:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR SU |
09KHARTOUM1195 | Sudan: AEC October 2009 Wealth Sharing Working Group Holds [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Charge' D'Affaires Robert Whitehead, as coordinator of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission's Wealth Sharing Working Group (WSWG),chaired a meeting with the ruling National Congress Party (NCP),Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and representatives of donor nat [...] | 2009-10-23 12:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EPET ENRG SU |
09KHARTOUM1196 | VETTING OF SPLA OFFICERS PARTICIPATING IN USG TRAINING [...] (SBU) Post has vetted and recommends the following SPLA officers participating in USG-sponsored Military Intelligence Captains Career Course from November 2009 to May 2010: Name DOB POB Rank Denis Eken Lomoro 18-DEC-1972 Juba LT 2. (SBU) Post has vetted and recommends the fo [...] | 2009-10-25 05:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPKO SU |
09KHARTOUM1197 | SUDAN PEOPLE'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT (SPLM) LAUNCHES [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPM) launched its campaign for the 2010 elections on October 12. SPLM's National Elections Strategic Committee (NESC) Chairman and Speaker of the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly (SSLA) Chairman, James Wani Igga and SPLM Deputy Secretary [...] | 2009-10-25 15:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM SU |
09KHARTOUM1198 | POPULAR CONSULTATIONS CRUCIAL, WITH OR WITHOUT ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Leaders of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) held a conference from October 15-18 in Kurmuk, Blue Nile State, to brain-storm about the form and function of popular consultations. The latter are called for by the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) to "ascertain the v [...] | 2009-10-25 15:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1199 | DARFUR UPDATE: UNAMID FEARS ATTACKS COMING IN JEBEL MARRA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) officials are deeply concerned that the Government of Sudan (GOS) plans to fortify recent gains against Sudanese Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) forces by attacking the rebel stronghold of West Jebel Marra in the coming [...] | 2009-10-25 15:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PGOV PHUM PINR PREF KPKO AU SU |
09KHARTOUM12 | MINNAWI SEEKS GREATER ENGAGEMENT WITH QATAR AND [...] (C) Summary: In a January 4 meeting with CDA Fernandez, Senior Assistant to the President Minni Minnawi expressed a desire for greater involvement of SLM-MM in the Darfur peace process. He lamented that he has yet to be contacted by Qatari officials about proposed peace talks in Doha, but note [...] | 2009-01-06 06:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM120 | ADDITIONAL FOLLOWUP TO IRANIAN FLIGHTS INFORMATION [...] (S/NF) CDA Fernandez presented talking points in reftel a to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Al-Samani al-Wasila (in the absence of FM Alor and President Bashir at the AU Summit) on February 1. RAO presented the same information through their channels to Sudanese Intelligence (NISS) on th [...] | 2009-02-01 12:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC MASS IR SU |
09KHARTOUM1205 | Tripartite Joint Technical Committee conducts workshop on [...] (U) Summary: The Tripartite Joint Technical Committee (TJTC) facilitated a workshop from October 10 to 12 to encourage cooperation between national and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs). Workshop results encouraged increased information sharing and openness in NGO partners [...] | 2009-10-26 04:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
09KHARTOUM1208 | SLA/AW GENERAL COMMANDER REQUESTS REBEL UNIFICATION IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The General Commander of the rebel forces of Sudanese Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) Abdelgadir Abdelrahman (Gaddura) supports rebel unification efforts that occur within Darfur's "liberated areas," not in Libya. Assembled commanders reaffirmed their support for the work o [...] | 2009-10-26 11:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SU |
09KHARTOUM1209 | CHADIAN REBELS: UFR'S TOLLIMI ADDRESSES EU INITIATIVE, [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 25 meeting with poloff, Secretary General of Chadian rebel group Union des Forces de la Rsistance (UFR) Abakar Tollimi expressed concern about the lack of progress in the EU-led initiative to facilitate political discussions between UFR and the Government of Chad (G [...] | 2009-10-27 09:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PGOV PINR PREL KPKO SU CD |
09KHARTOUM1212 | SPLM MAKING PROGRESS ON CPA ISSUES BUT REJECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 23, while hosting a visit of the South African Vice President, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) held an emergency Polit-Bureau meeting chaired by Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) President Salva Kiir. The meeting focused on the SPLM boycott of the Nat [...] | 2009-10-27 15:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SU |
09KHARTOUM1214 | LUBNA HUSSEIN CONTINUES HER CRUSADE AGAINST SHARIA LAW [...] (SBU) Summary: Almost four months after journalist and former United Nations press employee Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein gained tremendous international attention for wearing pants in public, she appears determined not to allow the incident to quietly fade away. Despite threats and travel restriction [...] | 2009-10-29 06:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KPAO OIIP SOCI SU |
09KHARTOUM1215 | USAID Acting Administrator Meeting with UN DSRSG to Sudan [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 24, USAID Acting Administrator Alonzo Fulgham and Acting Assistant Administrator for USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) Susan Reichle met with Deputy Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General (DSRSG) and Humanit [...] | 2009-10-29 07:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SMIG UN SU |
09KHARTOUM1216 | USAID Acting Administrator Meeting with NGO Steering [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 24, USAID Acting Administrator Alonzo Fulgham and Acting Assistant Administrator for USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) Susan Reichle met with the Khartoum-based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Steering Committee as p [...] | 2009-10-29 13:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
09KHARTOUM1217 | USAID Acting Administrator Meeting with NGO Steering [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 24, USAID Acting Administrator Alonzo Fulgham and Acting Assistant Administrator for USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) Susan Reichle met with the Khartoum-based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Steering Committee as p [...] | 2009-10-29 14:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
09KHARTOUM1219 | CHAD REBELS URGE GREATER US AND FRENCH ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) On October 28, CDA Whitehead met with Chadian rebel Alliance Union des Forces de la Resistance (UFR) President Timane Erdimi to deliver talking points provided by AF/C. Erdimi was accompanied by UFR First Vice President Adouma Hassaballah Djadarab and Secretary General Abakar Tollimi. 2 [...] | 2009-10-30 11:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PINR PREL SU CH |
09KHARTOUM1222 | OCTOBER HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE MEETING FOCUSES ON DARFUR [...] (SBU) Summary: The expanded High-Level Committee (HLC) met on October 28. Committee members discussed key challenges in the humanitarian operating environment in Darfur as a follow-up to the recent HLC visit to El Geneina, West Darfur. Much of the discussion focused on the October 24 abduc [...] | 2009-11-01 04:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
09KHARTOUM1223 | RECEIPT OF SUPPLY ITEMS [...] (SBU) THE FOL ITEMS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED: SECTION A: CMR ITEMS: NSN QTY NOMEN REMARKS 1005012044376 36 MAGAZINE SPE 1095011943343 6 HOLSTER HIP ONE IS UNSERVICEABLE SPE 1095013392213 11 EXTENDED, HIP, HOLSTER 6545070000762 12 IFAK 8345006561451 1 FLAG, NA [...] | 2009-11-01 04:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMSG ASEC |
09KHARTOUM1224 | VETTING OF SPLA OFFICERS PARTICIPATING IN USG TRAINING [...] (SBU) Post has vetted and recommends the following SPLA officers and soldiers participating in USG-sponsored Harris Radio Communications training course from 23rd November 2009 to 10 February 2010: Name DOB POB Rank Samson Mabior Lual 01-JAN-196 [...] | 2009-11-01 06:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPKO SU |
09KHARTOUM1225 | VETTING OF SOUTHERN SUDAN POLICE SERVICE (SSPS) OFFICERS [...] (SBU) Post has vetted and recommends the following SSPS officers participating in INL training to be conducted December 2009 in BOR, Sudan, listed by Name/DOB/Birthplace/Rank: Ajuong Garang Ajak 01-JAN-1969 Duk CPT Buol Yuen Anyieth 01-JAN-1956 Bor 2LT Michael Many [...] | 2009-11-01 06:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPKO SU |
09KHARTOUM1227 | OCTOBER HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE MEETING FOCUSES ON DARFUR [...] (SBU) Summary: In a spirited session of the expanded High-Level Committee (HLC) on October 28, committee members discussed key challenges in the humanitarian operating environment in Darfur as a follow-up to the recent HLC visit to El Geneina, West Darfur. The discussion centered on the Octo [...] | 2009-11-01 13:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
09KHARTOUM1229 | USAID Acting Administrator's Meeting with Humanitarian [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 25, USAID Acting Administrator Alonzo Fulgham, Acting Assistant Administrator for USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) Susan Reichle, and USAID Senior Policy Advisor Steven Pierce met with the South Darfur Area Humanitarian [...] | 2009-11-02 10:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
09KHARTOUM123 | SUDANESE RESPONSE: DEMARCHE ON DEFUSING TENSIONS [...] (S/NF) CDA Fernandez presented talking points in reftel to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Al-Samani al-Wasila (in the absence of FM Alor and other NGU officials at the AU Summit) on February 1. 2. (S/NF) Al-Wasila agreed that escalation of tensions between Chad and Sudan was in the i [...] | 2009-02-02 07:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM1232 | NCP HANGS TOUGH ON REFERENDUM "DEAL" [...] (C) Summary: On October 1 Government of South Sudan (GoSS) Vice President Dr. Riek Machar publicly announced, prematurely, that he had reached a "referendum deal" with his counterpart, Government of National Unity (GNU) Second Vice President Ali Osman Taha. The "deal" included the important " [...] | 2009-11-03 06:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM1234 | CDA DISCUSSES ABYEI WITH DIRDIRI [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 29, CDA Whitehead discussed developments in the Abyei special administrative district with Ambassador Al Dirdiri Mohamed Ahmed (NCP),the Government of Sudan's (GoS) Abyei point-person. Dirdiri said that the migration of Misseriya tribes-people into Abyei this year c [...] | 2009-11-03 14:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1235 | USAID Acting Administrator Meeting with Donors in [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 24, USAID Acting Administrator Alonzo Fulgham and Acting Assistant Administrator for USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) Susan Reichle met with donors and UN representatives in Khartoum as part of an October 24 - 27 delega [...] | 2009-11-03 14:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
09KHARTOUM1236 | USAID Acting Administrator Meeting with State Minister of [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 24, USAID Acting Administrator Alonzo Fulgham and Acting Assistant Administrator for USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) Susan Reichle met with State (Deputy) Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, H.E. Dr. Abdel Bagi El-Geilan [...] | 2009-11-03 14:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
09KHARTOUM1237 | USAID Acting Administrator Meeting on Elections in [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 24, USAID Acting Administrator Alonzo Fulgham and Acting Assistant Administrator for USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) Susan Reichle participated in an elections and political processes roundtable in Khartoum. They met w [...] | 2009-11-03 14:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
09KHARTOUM1239 | U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY GRATION MEETS MUTRIFF SIDDIQ [...] (C) Summary. In a November 2 meeting with U.S. Special Envoy (SE) to Sudan General Scott Gration, Mutriff Siddiq, Government of Sudan (GoS) Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, welcomed the new U.S. Sudan policy as a step forward. Siddiq said that the issues in Darfur were difficult but surmo [...] | 2009-11-04 06:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM MOPS SU |
09KHARTOUM124 | CHADIAN REBELS - HASSABALLAH EMPHASIZES ALLIANCE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 30, Adouma Hassaballah Djadarab, the First Vice President of the Union of Resistance Forces (UFR,) told poloffs that UFR is an alliance of existing Chadian rebel groups, not the "fusion" of all movements. Like UFR President Erdimi (reftel,) Hassaballah emphasized that [...] | 2009-02-02 07:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM1240 | GOSS VP MACHAR GIVEN MISSION IMPOSSIBLE? [...] (C) Summary: Over two days of meetings, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) told the United States Special Envoy (SE) to Sudan General Scott Gration that it was interested in negotiating a broad "package deal" with its Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) partner the National Congres [...] | 2009-11-04 06:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SU |
09KHARTOUM1241 | U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY GRATION MEETS WITH DR. GHAZI [...] (C) Summary. In a November 2 meeting, U.S Special Envoy (SE) to Sudan General Scott Gration discussed with influential Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salaheddin a brief list of possible resolutions to outstanding points of contention between the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan Pe [...] | 2009-11-04 06:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KAWC MOPS SU |
09KHARTOUM1249 | USAID Acting Administrator Visit to Nyala, South Darfur [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 25, USAID Acting Administrator Alonzo Fulgham, Acting Assistant Administrator for USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) Susan Reichle, and USAID Senior Policy Advisor Steven Pierce conducted a seven-hour visit to Nyala, Sout [...] | 2009-11-04 09:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
09KHARTOUM125 | UNAMID STAYS IN MUHAJARRIYA AS BOMBING AND FIGHTING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 1, UNAMID's Deputy Joint Special Representative General Henry Anyidoho informed Embassy Khartoum that UNAMID will remain in Muhajarriya "at the determination of the Secretary General," despite GOS bombing of JEM rebel positions around the area the same day and in spi [...] | 2009-02-02 09:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1250 | U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY GRATION MEETS WITH SAF GENERAL [...] (C) Summary. In a November 3 meeting, Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) General Esmat Abdulrahmam told U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, General Scott Gration, that the Government of Sudan (GoS) does not, and never has, supported the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). He also stated that allegations by the Go [...] | 2009-11-04 13:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR SU |
09KHARTOUM1253 | OFFICIAL: "SUDAN ON WRONG COURSE" [...] (C) During a courtesy call October 27, newly appointed Director General for Protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Haydar Hassan Haj Al Sidig, Director General for Protocol, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told Deputy Chief of Mission that he sees the new U.S. policy toward Suda [...] | 2009-11-04 14:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM126 | RUSSIAN ENVOY PLANS GREATER ENGAGEMENT, PROPOSES [...] (C) Summary: President Bashir promised that the GOS will carry on with "business as usual" and asserted there would be no government-orchestrated hostile response to the issuance of an ICC arrest warrant, Russian Special Envoy Mikhail Margelov told CDA Fernandez in a meeting on January 30. Mar [...] | 2009-02-02 09:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM1261 | WILL THE GOS REVIVE THE SUDAN PEOPLE'S INITIATIVE? [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sudan People's Initiative (SPI) civil society forum may soon be revived pending approval from the Presidency, SPI Chief Drafter and University of Khartoum Professor Attayeb Hajj Atia told poloff in a meeting on October 26. Revival of long-dormant forum, which in the past prod [...] | 2009-11-08 06:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1262 | SOUTHERN SUDAN ASKS FOR HELP IN PREPARING FOR ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Voter registration began in Southern Sudan on November 1 amid logistical and political hurdles. (Septel will report on registration progress.) This cable discusses the Government of South Sudan's (GoSS) urgent plea for help in preparing security for the elections following an O [...] | 2009-11-08 07:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINS SU |
09KHARTOUM1263 | DEMARCATION OF ABYEI BOUNDARY REMAINS FROZEN [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 5, Poloff spoke with Kwol Biong (SPLM),Deputy Chair of the Abyei Border Demarcation Committee, who said that no physical demarcation of the Abyei border has occurred. Biong said that security issues are the committee's primary concern, but also complained of insuffic [...] | 2009-11-08 08:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PBTS KDEM MOPS SU |
09KHARTOUM1264 | USAID/OFDA Darfur Agriculture and Food Security Assessment [...] (U) Summary: The 2009 harvest outlook in Darfur is mixed. Reports from most of West Darfur indicated reliable rains, while parts of South and North Darfur did not. In addition to general agricultural development challenges, lack of humanitarian access and insecurity continue to render rural [...] | 2009-11-08 15:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
09KHARTOUM1265 | RECEIPT OF SUPPLY ITEMS [...] (SBU) THE FOL ITEMS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED: SECTION A: CMR ITEMS: NSN QTY NOMEN REMARKS 8470014651904 4 SPE COYOTE MD NOT SL-3 COMPLETE 8470014651901 2 SPE COYOTE SM NOT SL-3 COMPLETE 8470014651857 6 SPE COYOTE 5 MISSING KEVLAR 8470014650872 6 SPE COYOTE [...] | 2009-11-09 04:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMSG ASEC |
09KHARTOUM1266 | USAID/OFDA Darfur Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene [...] (U) Summary: Despite adequate safe drinking water supply in most internally displaced person (IDP) camps in Darfur, substantial gaps remain in sanitation and hygiene services, according to USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) ad [...] | 2009-11-09 07:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
09KHARTOUM1271 | PARTY TALKS CONTINUE WITH SHORT DEADLINE SET [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a November 9 meeting with Poloff, Remy Oller, Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Deputy Speaker of the Council of States, said the National Congress Party (NCP) and SPLM were still engaged in talks initiated by the US. Special Envoy on outstanding Comprehensive Pea [...] | 2009-11-10 09:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM1272 | SUDAN: 49th Plenary of the AEC [...] (U) Summary: The November 8, 49th Plenary of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) tackled the following issues: preparations for upcoming elections and referendum, post referendum arrangements, voter registration and border demarcation problems in Abyei. State Minister at the Minis [...] | 2009-11-10 13:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MARR KDEM SU |
09KHARTOUM1273 | GHAZI ADDRESSES CHAD-SUDAN DETENTE, DARFUR PEACE [...] (C) Summary: On November 11, CDA Whitehead met with Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salaheddin to discuss the sequencing of the Chad-Sudan Dtente Process (ref a),the lag in the Darfur peace process, and the ongoing bilateral discussions between the SPLM and the NCP to resolve outstanding Compr [...] | 2009-11-11 08:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PREL UN AU SU CH |
09KHARTOUM1277 | Media Reaction to U.S. Special Envoy Scott Gration: The [...] SUMMARY: Visible "shuttle diplomacy" between officials of the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) failed to produce a break-through by the U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration on his recent visit to Sudan. Media followed the impasse on two-party [...] | 2009-11-12 12:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM KPAO OIIP SU |
09KHARTOUM1278 | FRENCH DIPLOMAT CALLS FOR RETURN TO NAIVASHA-STYLE [...] (C) Summary: In an October 21 meeting with Polchief and Poloff, French Deputy Chief of Mission Denis Douveneaux praised Chadian President Idris Deby as a "peacemaker," and placed the blame squarely on Libya for arming and funding insurgents in the Darfur region. He expressed doubts that unity [...] | 2009-11-15 06:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINS CH FR SU |
09KHARTOUM1279 | AU LIAISON ANALYSES PEACE AND SECURITY MEETING [...] (C//NOFORN) SUMMARY: On November 09, Poloff met with Boitshoko Mokgatlhe, African Union (AU) Liaison Officer for Sudan. Mokgatlhe went over the main points recommended by the 207th meeting of the Peace and Security Council (PSC) in Abuja (ref. A) and quietly confirmed the widespread speculati [...] | 2009-11-15 06:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PREF PHUM SU |
09KHARTOUM1280 | U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY GRATION MEETS WITH SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] (SBU) Summary: In a November 4 meeting U.S. Special Envoy (SE) General Scott Gration met with representatives of opposition political parties from Southern Sudan. The representatives expressed concerns regarding elections, the referendum and the recent parliamentary boycott. They appealed to [...] | 2009-11-15 08:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SU |
09KHARTOUM1281 | PROBLEMS PLAGUE BEGINNING OF VOTER REGISTRATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After two weeks of voter registration for the first general elections in Sudan in over 20 years, observers say the dearth of information about when, where and how to register has confused potential registrants. The National Electoral Commission (NEC) has reported far more people [...] | 2009-11-15 09:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SU |
09KHARTOUM1284 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR GHAZI REPORTS PRODUCTIVE [...] (C) Summary: In a November 16 meeting, Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salaheddin told CDA Whitehead that he was encouraged by French officials' support for Chad-Sudan rapprochement during Ghazi's recent trip to France. He welcomed the upcoming visit of US Special Envoy (SE) Scott Gration to Su [...] | 2009-11-16 09:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PINS PREL CH FR SU |
09KHARTOUM1285 | MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE SHOT WHILE REGISTERING IN HIS HOME [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 15, the Minister of Agriculture Samson Kwaje was shot while traveling to his home constituency in Juba County, Central Equatoria, to register. Kwaje was traveling in a six car convoy which was ambushed in the early evening on the Lainya-Jambo road. The reason for t [...] | 2009-11-16 14:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS ASEC SU |
09KHARTOUM1288 | GOS MILITARY OFFER TO COOPERATE ON SEVERAL FRONTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a meeting on November 14 with the Inspector General of the Sudanese Armed Forces, General Ismat Abdelraman Zaineabdeen informed Charge Whitehead that the Government of Sudan (GoS) is willing to "fully cooperate" to assist with Darfur rebel unification. Abdelraman asked for [...] | 2009-11-16 16:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL FR CH SU |
09KHARTOUM129 | GNU STATE MINISTER OF FINANCE BLAMES HIS SPLM COMRADES FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: SPLM-appointed State Minister of Finance in the Government of National Unity (GNU) Lual Deng laid the blame for the festering dispute over the control of foreign exchange reserves squarely on the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS),by having turned a technical issue into a high- [...] | 2009-02-02 13:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EAID SU |
09KHARTOUM1298 | HAC COMMISSIONER REPORTEDLY ANNOUNCES PLANNED CLOSURE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: According to November 10 and 11 local media reports, Government of National Unity (GNU) Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) Commissioner Hassabo Abdel-Rahman announced on UN-sponsored radio that the Sudanese government is planning to close Darfur internally displaced person (IDP) [...] | 2009-11-17 11:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EAID PREF PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
09KHARTOUM13 | MAIDOB REBELS KILLED IN JEM INFIGHTING [...] (SBU) Summary: Dozens of Maidob fighters from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) were killed and many more injured at the hands of their Zaghawa counterparts in clashes in Eastern Chad on January 1, according to multiple rebel sources. The infighting apparently started when the Maidob prot [...] | 2009-01-06 13:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1300 | ELECTIONS, GRASSROOTS EFFORTS KEY TO DARFUR PEACE, SAYS GOS [...] (SBU) Summary: The biggest obstacle to a political solution of the Darfur conflict is not the rebels' lack of political will, but rather their lack of capacity, the GOS lead negotiator to the Doha talks told CDA and S/USSES Peace and Security Team in a meeting on November 16. Dr. Amin Hassan Om [...] | 2009-11-17 13:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1302 | NCP WILLING TO COMPROMISE ON OUTSTANDING CPA [...] (C) Summary: In a November 17 meeting with Special Envoy Gration, Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salaheddin recounted the continued inability of the National Congress Party (NCP) and Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) to reach agreement on several key outstanding issues related to the [...] | 2009-11-18 11:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL SU CH |
09KHARTOUM1309 | NCP REMOVE GOVERNOR OF UPPER NILE STATE, CREATING NEW [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 14, the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) announced the removal of Upper Nile Governor Gatluak Deng Garang and the new National Congress Party (NCP) nomination of William Othwong Awer. While the NCP maintains control of the governor's seat of Upper Nile State, any [...] | 2009-11-18 14:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINS SU |
09KHARTOUM1316 | VICE PRESIDENT TAHA EXPLAINS NCP POSITION ON ABYEI [...] (C) Summary: Ali Osman Taha, First Vice President of Sudan's Government of National Unity (GNU) told Special Envoy Scott Gration November 18 that the nomadic Misseriya should be allowed to vote in the Abyei referendum because, while not permanent residents, they reside in Abyei for part of the [...] | 2009-11-23 06:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SU |
09KHARTOUM1319 | Energy Ministry Official Says Sudan's Oil to Run Out by [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 9, Hamad Elneel Abdulgadir, Deputy Secretary General of the Ministry of Energy and Mining (MEM) complained to Poloff that the Ministry's efforts in training Southern Sudanese for oil industry jobs had been a failure, one reason that the National Petroleum Commission [...] | 2009-11-23 08:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET PGOV PREL ECON EFIN SU |
09KHARTOUM1323 | VOTER REGISTRATION LAGS IN SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] (SBU) Voter registration in Southern Sudan continues to move slowly and to be hampered by organizational, funding and logistical challenges. Percentages of registered voters in the south lag far behind the overall totals of registered voters in other parts of Sudan. Lack of clear policies, gu [...] | 2009-11-23 12:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO SU |
09KHARTOUM1326 | Preview of Sudan 2010 Humanitarian Work Plan [...] (U) Summary: On November 15, USAID attended a stakeholders' conference providing a preview of the UN and partners 2010 Humanitarian Work Plan. The conference, chaired by Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (DSRSG) Ameerah Haq and Commissioner of the Government of Nation [...] | 2009-11-23 12:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
09KHARTOUM133 | SUDANESE WOMEN SET AGENDA FOR PEACE IN DARFUR [...] (U) The second African Women's Consultation on Darfur took place in Addis Ababa from January 5-7, 2009. The conference was organized by Femmes Africa Solidarite (FAS),supported by the UK Department for International Development (DfID) and the Norwegian Government, and led by former President [...] | 2009-02-03 05:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1338 | SE GRATION WITH NCP MINISTER AMIN ON ABYEI, DOHA [...] (C) Summary: On November 22, US Special Envoy to Sudan (SE) Scott Gration met with Dr. Amin Hassan Omar, Government of National Unity (GoNU) State Minister of Youth, Sport and Culture and the National Congress Party (NCP) lead on the Doha talks. Amin insisted that issues surrounding Abyei are [...] | 2009-11-26 07:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PINS PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM1339 | SE Gration Visits Voter Registration Centers in Sudan [...] (SBU) Summary: United States Special Envoy to Sudan (SE) General Scott Gration visited a lively registration center in Khartoum on November 18 during a visit arranged by the National Congress Party (NCP). Additional visits to voter registration centers in Khartoum, Abyei and El Geneina showed [...] | 2009-11-26 07:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SU |
09KHARTOUM134 | UNAMID PROPOSES SAFE ZONE IN MUHAJARRIYA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 2, UNAMID's Joint Special Representative Rodolphe Adada told CDA Fernandez that the Justice and Equality Movement has taken four defensive positions outside of Muhajarriya, while the GoS vows a large-scale attack on JEM in South Darfur. UNAMID will stay in the area, [...] | 2009-02-03 06:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1341 | GHAZI SATISFIED WITH DOHA CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary: In a closing meeting with US. Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration, Government of Sudan (GoS) Presidential Advisor Ghazi Salahuddin expressed satisfaction with the recent Doha Civil Society Conference. Ghazi said he would look into lifting travel restrictions on United Nations-Af [...] | 2009-12-01 09:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PINS PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM1342 | NORTH AND SOUTH DEADLOCKED ON ABYEI [...] (C) Summary: Throughout U.S. Special Envoy (SE) to Sudan General Scott Gration's November 18-22 meetings in Khartoum, the National Congress Party (NCP) and Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) remained at an impasse over the definition of a resident of Abyei in the Abyei Referendum Bil [...] | 2009-12-01 09:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PBTS PGOV PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM1343 | World Bank Economist: Water Security an Issue for Sudan [...] (SBU) Summary: World Bank Economist Mosllem Alamir predicted that water resources in post-2011 Sudan could lead to conflict and economic crisis if the parties to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) do not make decisions now about allocation or cooperation on the use of Nile waters. Increas [...] | 2009-12-01 10:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAGR ECON EIND ENRG SENV EWWT SU |
09KHARTOUM1344 | U.S. Special Envoy Gration Assesses Abyei Tensions [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 19, US Special Envoy to Sudan (SE) General Scott Gration traveled to Abyei and to Muglad, Southern Kordofan, to assess implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and the security situation in and around Abyei. In Abyei town, the Deputy Administrator de [...] | 2009-12-01 11:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PBTS SU |
09KHARTOUM1345 | SE GRATION VISIT TO EL FASHER AND EL GENEINA, [...] (SBU) Summary: During the November 20-21 visit to Darfur of U.S. Special Envoy (SE) General Scott Gration, senior officials from the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) estimated that 40 percent of the problems in Darfur are related to the troubled relationship between Chad [...] | 2009-12-01 13:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM1347 | Darfur Food Survey Shows Mixed Results for 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: The World Food Program (WFP) Food Security Monitoring System (FSMS) has surveyed Darfuri households since the start of 2009 to track trends in food security across the region. The implementing food aid community has become increasingly concerned that many camp-based internally d [...] | 2009-12-02 07:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
09KHARTOUM1349 | SUDAN: ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT INACTIVE [...] (SBU) On November 25, EmbOff discussed Sudan's policy on the Arab League Boycott (ALB) of Israel with Abdel Aziz M. Ahmed, head of the Multilateral Trading Department of the Government of Sudan (GOS) Ministry of Foreign Trade. Ahmed stated that there has been no change in Sudan's policy or pr [...] | 2009-12-02 08:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV SOCI UN SU |
09KHARTOUM1350 | THE EMERGING STORY ON "SUDANIZATION" OF HUMANITARIAN AID [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-02 08:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SMIG SOCI UN SU |
09KHARTOUM1353 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES 2010 BUDGET WITHOUT SPLM; [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 16, the National Assembly approved the national budget for 2010. Due to a continuing boycott of the National Assembly by the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and other opposition parties, the National Congress Party (NCP)and its allies unilaterally approv [...] | 2009-12-04 08:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN KDEM KPKO SU |
09KHARTOUM1357 | SLA/AW UP IN ARMS AFTER LONG RESPITE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The central region of Darfur known as Jebel Marra remains unstable following internal conflict among rebels commanders aligned with Sudanese Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW). SLA/AW rebels in far northeast North Darfur staged two successful attacks in November on Government [...] | 2009-12-06 10:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PGOV PHUM PINR PREF KPKO AU SU |
09KHARTOUM1358 | Five Rwandan UNAMID Peacekeepers Killed in Two Separate [...] (SBU) Summary: Five Rwandan peacekeepers with the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) were killed over the weekend in two separate attacks in North Darfur. Gunmen opened fire on a UNAMID convoy traveling near Saraf Omra on December 4, killing three peacekeepers. On Decembe [...] | 2009-12-06 11:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO ECON EFIN SU |
09KHARTOUM1359 | SPLM HEAVYWEIGHTS PAGAN AMUM, YASSIR ARMAN [...] (C) Summary: Two key leaders of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM),Secretary General Pagan Amum and Head of SPLM Northern Sector Yassir Arman, were detained by Omdurman authorities in conjunction with an "illegal" protest by opposition parties at the National Assembly on December 7. [...] | 2009-12-07 11:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINS PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM136 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR CALLS FOR STRATEGIC [...] (C) Summary: In a February 2 meeting, CDA Fernandez warned Presidential Advisor Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salahadeen that an implosion of GOSS due to falling oil prices and revenues would have disastrous implications for Sudan and the NCP. Salahadeen responded that the NCP is a proponent [...] | 2009-02-03 15:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM1361 | SUDAN: LUBNA HUSSEIN, NOMINATION FOR 2010 INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) U.S. Embassy Khartoum nominates Lubna Hussein for the 2010 Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. 2. (U) The Public Order Police of the Government of Sudan (GOS) arrested Hussein in July, charging her with violating the Sudanese law for "public appearance in indecent dress [...] | 2009-12-07 13:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KWMN KPAO PHUM KTIP PINR NI |
09KHARTOUM137 | NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION LEADERS SAY ELECTIONS WILL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. National Electoral Commission (NEC) Chairman Abel Alier and Deputy Chairman Abdalla Abdalla told CDA that the NEC's first priority is to get the Southern Sudan and state electoral high committees up and running so that they can carry out critical electoral work at the state and [...] | 2009-02-03 15:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1370 | SPLM'S ARMAN DESCRIBES POLICE ABUSE; ARRESTED DEMONSTRATORS [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 8, Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Head of Northern Sector Yasir Arman described how several Government of Sudan (GOS) junior police officers "beat him with their boots" and a police baton while he was in police custody on December 7. Arman stated he receiv [...] | 2009-12-08 13:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PREF SU |
09KHARTOUM1371 | ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION COMMITTEE PLENARY [...] In the absence of Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) representatives, the 50th plenary meeting of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) scheduled for December 8 was rescheduled to Sunday, December 13 at 10:00 AM. For representatives of AEC member countries assembled in anticipa [...] | 2009-12-08 15:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KDEM SU |
09KHARTOUM1376 | NCP AND SPLM UP THE POLITICAL ANTE; TENSIONS SPIKE [...] (C) Summary: The December 7 confrontation between opposition demonstrators that led to the arrest of several Sudan People's Liberation Movement leaders (reftels) has led to Counter-moves on both sides, effectively upping the political ante. Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) Vice President [...] | 2009-12-09 16:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINS PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM1377 | RECEIPT OF SUPPLY ITEMS [...] (SBU) THE FOL ITEMS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED: SECTION A: CMR ITEMS: NSN QTY NOMEN REMARKS 109001Q00G640 2 DUTY BELT, SM 109001Q00G639 4 DUTY BELT, MD 8470010927527 5 HELMET, GROUND TROOP, MD 8470015060934 1 HELMET, GROUND TROOP, SM 8470014651184 2 SPE, SMALL [...] | 2009-12-09 16:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMSG ASEC |
09KHARTOUM1378 | SPLM'S AMUM PAUSES PROTESTS, VOWS CONTINUED OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) Summary: Opposition party protests will continue until outstanding CPA implementation issues are resolved, Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Secretary General Pagan Amum told DCM Asquino on December 9. While Amum has decided to hold off on leading any protests in Khartoum in the [...] | 2009-12-10 07:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PREF SU |
09KHARTOUM138 | SPLM SG AMUM PAINTS A BLEAK PICTURE OF THE NCP'S [...] (C) Summary. Secretary General of the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement (SPLM) told CDA Fernandez that NCP will likely behave normally after the announcement of an ICC indictment of Government of National Unity (GNU) President Al-Bashir. But he expects the National Congress Party (NCP) to q [...] | 2009-02-03 15:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM ASEC KPKO AU SU |
09KHARTOUM1383 | FOOD SECURITY WORSENS IN PARTS OF SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] (U) Summary: Southern Sudan continues to be plagued by a food security crisis in several states due to a combination of poor rainfall, heightened insecurity leading to population displacements, and high cereal prices. Hope that the second cereal harvest in November would bring some relief has [...] | 2009-12-10 13:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
09KHARTOUM1389 | MISSERIYA IN MUGLAD REJECT PCA DECISION [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with Poloff in Muglad on December 9 and 10, Misseriya from traditional leadership, civil society groups, and local NGOs universally expressed the view that the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) ruling on Abyei (Ref A) was an unjust taking of their land. Members of [...] | 2009-12-13 10:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PBTS KDEM KPKO SOCI SU |
09KHARTOUM139 | SEEKING TANGIBLE IMPROVEMENT IN DARFUR IN 2009 AND [...] (C) There is an opening for tangible improvement in Darfur over the next year and beyond. However, progress will require heavy and sustained engagement by the US, because no other country can deliver what the Sudanese regime wants: better relations with the international community in general, [...] | 2009-02-03 16:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM1390 | GNU FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS WITH U.S. COMMISSION ON [...] (C) Summary: The Government of National Unity (GNU) Minister of Foreign Affairs Deng Alor commented on the National Congress Party's (NCP) relationship with the United States during a December 9 meeting with the visiting U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Alor, who is [...] | 2009-12-13 11:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR SU |
09KHARTOUM14 | DUP DEPUTY CHAIRMAN FEARS ICC CHAOS [...] (C) Summary: Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Deputy Chairman and vocal ICC supporter Ali Mahmoud Hassanein told CDA Fernandez on January 5 that he feared Sudan would plunge into chaos upon the issuance of an arrest warrant against President Bashir. Hassanein described his December 29 detention [...] | 2009-01-06 14:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM140 | BOMBING CONTINUES AND GOS BLOCKS UNAMID SENIOR LEADERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 3, the Government of Sudan blocked senior UNAMID leaders from traveling to Muhajarriya - a move that several UNAMID leaders have already interpreted as a violation of UNAMID's Status of Forces Agreement with the GOS. UNAMID sources also reported that the Sudanese Ar [...] | 2009-02-03 16:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1400 | NCP AND SPLM BREAK THE IMPASSE BUT NOT THE CYCLE; [...] (C) Summary: Three days of talks between Government of National Unity (GoNU) President Al-Bashir and GoNU First Vice President (and Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS)) President Salva Kiir and their respective delegations broke through on December 13, resolving three of five outstanding issue [...] | 2009-12-14 11:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINS PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM1401 | PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT FOR ABYEI SLOW IN COMING [...] Summary. (SBU) On December 8, Poloff met with Ngok Dinka traditional leaders in Abyei town, who stated that the National Congress Party (NCP) is arming militias in the area in order to destabilize Abyei and prevent demarcation of Abyei's boundaries. Traditional leaders also complained that the [...] | 2009-12-14 12:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PBTS KDEM KPKO SOCI SU |
09KHARTOUM1404 | Dec. 14 Opposition Protests Met by Tear Gas; Up to 100 [...] (SBU) Summary: Government of Sudan (GOS) authorities shut down a demonstration led by northern opposition parties in Omdurman on Monday, December 14, blocking roads and bridges in the early morning. Following a rally at the Omdurman headquarters of Sudan Liberation Movement/Minni Minnawi (SLM [...] | 2009-12-15 08:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS PHUM SU |
09KHARTOUM1405 | SOUTHERN SUDAN LRA UPDATE, DECEMBER 14, 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: While the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) activities have diminished in Western Equatoria since September, there are reports that the LRA has moved operations into Raja County, Western Bahr el-Ghazal, and unconfirmed reports of movement into South Darfur. The Ugandan People's Defen [...] | 2009-12-15 08:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS SU UG CG CT |
09KHARTOUM1410 | ABYEI JIU INTEGRATED BUT INEFFECTIVE [...] (SBU) Summary. On December 8 Poloff met with Colonel Zakaria Akoi Yak (SPLM),Deputy Commander of the Abyei Joint Integrated Unit (JIU),who told Poloff that his JIU forces, tasked with providing security for the Abyei boundary demarcation team, had never been confronted by Misseriya tribesmen [...] | 2009-12-15 11:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PBTS KDEM KPKO MOPS SU |
09KHARTOUM1411 | WEARY MINNAWI EXPRESSES "NO HOPE" FOR DARFUR [...] (C) Summary: In a December 15 meeting with CDA Whitehead, Senior Presidential Assistant Minni Minnawi lamented that the international community has shifted its attention to North-South relations at the expense of Darfur. Characterizing Southern secession as a foregone conclusion, he expressed [...] | 2009-12-15 11:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN SU CH |
09KHARTOUM142 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: As of January 29 the total number of UNAMID military personnel was 12,540, or just over 64 percent of the total authorized force strength. UNAMID senior staff agree that the deployment goal is impossible to secure by Mabch 31. In fact, UNAMID's shipping pipeline may be empty wi [...] | 2009-02-04 06:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1421 | SUDAN 2009 Country Report on Terrorism [...] (SBU) Sudan remains a cooperative partner in the Global War on Terror (GWOT),and the outlook for continued cooperation is positive. During the past year, the Sudanese government continued to pursue terrorist operations directly involving threats to U.S. interests and personnel in Sudan. Suda [...] | 2009-12-17 06:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EFIN KCRM KPAO PTER KHLS AEMR SU |
09KHARTOUM1423 | GHAZI TOUTS PROGRESS ON CPA, CHAD BUT EXPRESSES [...] (SE) Summary: In a December 13 meeting with Special Envoy Gration, Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salaheddin called the December 13 Agreement between the National Congress Party (NCP) and Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) on outstanding Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) issues (refte [...] | 2009-12-17 14:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | ASEC PGOV PREL UN SU CH |
09KHARTOUM1424 | DEBT RELIEF IS KEY TO SUDAN'S ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary: The lack of access to debt relief is the primary constraint on Sudan's economic development, Minister of Finance and regime hard-liner Dr. Awad Aljaz told U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan (SE) General Scott Gration on December 14. He asserted that the USG was blocking Sudan's access t [...] | 2009-12-17 14:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM1425 | U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY MEETS WITH GOSS VICE PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary. Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) Vice President Riek Machar told the U.S. Special Envoy Scott Gration in a December 14 meeting that the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the National Congress Party (NCP) agreement on three long-disputed bills was a beginning, but ca [...] | 2009-12-17 15:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM1426 | SE GRATION'S DECEMBER 15 MEETING WITH UNMIS JUBA [...] (SBU) Summary: On his December 15 trip to Juba, Sudan, SE Gration met with UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) Deputy Regional Coordinator Lise Grande, and heard her concerns regarding mounting food shortages and governance issues in the region. Grande painted a grim picture of food needs, explaining [...] | 2009-12-20 08:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM SU |
09KHARTOUM1430 | SRSG QAZI DISCUSSES INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION, [...] (C) Summary: In a December 16 meeting, UN Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) to Sudan Ashraf Qazi told S/USSES Deputy Timothy Shortley that the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) has been shifting its "center of gravity" southward in preparation for the post-2011 environment. He [...] | 2009-12-20 09:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM1433 | NORTHERN OPPOSITION LEADERS TELL SPECIAL ENVOY [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 16, five northern opposition political party leaders discussed the recent demonstrations in Khartoum and their objectives with U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan (SE) General Scott Gration. Mariam Al-Sadig Al-Mahdi from the Umma Party, Ali Traio of the Sudan Liberation Mo [...] | 2009-12-20 09:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM1435 | USCIRF DELEGATION'S DECEMBER 5-10 VISIT TO KHARTOUM [...] (SBU) Summary: During their visit to Khartoum, December 5-10, a delegation from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) met with civil society, non-governmental organizations (NGO),United Nations in Sudan (UNMIS) representatives, the Assessment and Evaluation Commission [...] | 2009-12-21 06:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM SU |
09KHARTOUM1437 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PASSES NATIONAL SECURITY LAW, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-22 14:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO SU |
09KHARTOUM1445 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY UNILATERALLY PASSES NCP BACKED [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 20, the National Assembly passed the National Security Law in a National Congress Party (NCP) "mechanical majority" vote without the Sudan People's Liberation Movement's (SPLM) or opposition party support. The SPLM and other opposition parties strongly objected to the [...] | 2009-12-23 11:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO |
09KHARTOUM1447 | NCP APPROVES SOUTHERN SUDAN REFERENDUM LAW WITHOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 22, the National Congress Party (NCP) introduced controversial amendments to the Southern Sudan Referendum Law and unilaterally passed it despite the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) walking out of the session. Dr. Ghazi Sallahuddin, an NCP Presidential Adviso [...] | 2009-12-23 13:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO SU |
09KHARTOUM1448 | GNU MINISTER OF INDUSTRY DECRIES EFFECTS OF [...] (C) Summary: In a December 16 meeting, Government of National Unity (GNU) Minister of Industry Jalal Yousif Al Dugair, a member of the opposition Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) lauded U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan (SE) General Scott Gration for his efforts to improve bilateral relations, but ur [...] | 2009-12-24 11:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EIND PGOV PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM1454 | SPLM'S ARMAN SHARES VIEWS ON WAY FORWARD FOR [...] (C) Summary. The Acting Charge d'Affaires and poloff requested a December 27 meeting with Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Head of Northern Sector Yasir Arman to get his views on prospects for resolving his party's dispute with the National Congress Party (NCP) over the latter's amend [...] | 2009-12-27 14:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KPKO PGOV PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM1455 | VOTER REGISTRATION CONCLUDES IN SUDAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Voter registration concluded in Sudan on December 7. According to election advisors, and based on the National Elections Commission's (NEC) preliminary, unverified results, voter registration turned out significantly better than anyone might have expected, although problems were [...] | 2009-12-28 06:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO SU |
09KHARTOUM1462 | NCP AND SPLM PASS SOUTHERN SUDAN REFERENDUM LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 29, the National Assembly voted by majority to approve the Southern Sudan Referendum Law. The law was passed with the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) mutually agreeing on the final version of the law after ten days of hea [...] | 2009-12-29 15:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO SU |
09KHARTOUM1474 | PORT SUDAN AS POTENTIAL LOGISTICAL SOLUTION FOR REGIONAL [...] (U) Summary: There is no recent history of vessels with USG humanitarian aid cargo waiting for berthing space due to port congestion outside of Port Sudan. The same can-not be said for Djibouti port to the south. In order to avoid delays of emergency food aid delivery to Ethiopia due to port co [...] | 2009-12-30 14:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
09KHARTOUM1475 | ABYEI REFERENDUM LAW APPROVED, BUT SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] (C) Summary. On December 30, the National Assembly approved the Abyei Referendum Law by a majority vote, one day after passing the Southern Sudan Referendum Law (reftel). Acting Charge d'Affaires and poloff met with Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salaheddin on December 30 prior to the announce [...] | 2009-12-30 16:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM1476 | NEC PROCEDURES CONCERN ELECTIONS ADVISORS AND [...] (C) Summary. Following the end of voter registration on December 7, the voter roll exhibition and challenge period were "check-the-box" exercises in which few voters were aware of the process, according to election advisors here. In the view of the latter, the National Election Commission (NEC) [...] | 2009-12-31 10:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM148 | YASIR ARMAN CALLS FOR HOLISTIC APPROACH TOWARD [...] (C) Summary: SPLM Northern Sector Chief Yasir Arman told Senior Representative for Sudan Shortley that he wants a "more holistic approach" to Sudan by the new Administration, coupling increased engagement and a powerful U.S. Special Envoy with pressure on the regime to make progress on Darfur [...] | 2009-02-04 15:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM149 | SPLM DEPUTY SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT STRUGGLES TO [...] (C) Summary: The SPLM's Deputy Speaker of Parliament outlined his party's struggles in Parliament to win concessions from the NCP on crucial laws related to National Security and the 2011 South Sudan referendum. He expressed fears that NCP MP's opposed to the referendum will use the upcoming I [...] | 2009-02-04 15:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM15 | NCP PLANS FOR BUSINESS AS USUAL AFTER ICC [...] (C) Summary: Following the anticipated ICC indictment of President Bashir, the Ruling National Congress Party (NCP) regime will respond pragmatically and continue to meet its obligations, party officials told CDA Fernandez during meetings in Khartoum January 5 and 6. However, they warned that [...] | 2009-01-06 15:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM150 | SEEKING TANGIBLE IMPROVEMENT IN DARFUR IN 2009 AND [...] (C) There is an opening for tangible improvement in Darfur over the next year and beyond. However, progress will require heavy and sustained engagement by the US, because no other country can deliver what the Sudanese regime wants: better relations with the international community in general, [...] | 2009-02-04 15:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM151 | NCP WOULD LIKE TO SEE DEEPER ENGAGEMENT WITH NEW [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-04 15:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KPKO SOCI AU SU |
09KHARTOUM152 | MUHAJARRIYA UPDATE - FEBRUARY 4 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNAMID reported that the GOS had "moved in and taken control" of Muhajarriya as of 15:40 on February 4. Sudan National Radio made a similar announcement late the same day. Although the GOS appears to have reduced the number of aerial bombings compared to February 3, Sudanese Ar [...] | 2009-02-04 15:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM153 | SHURA COUNCIL MEMBERS PROMISE TO ISSUE PUBLIC DECLARATION [...] (SBU) Summary: In a February 4 meeting with Senior Representative for Sudan Tim Shortley, Shura Council representatives from the Fur, Tunjur, Dajo and Birgit tribes expressed a willingness to issue a public declaration of the intent of the Darfurian people to pursue peace negotiations with the [...] | 2009-02-04 15:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM154 | MOVING FORWARD AFTER THE GOSS REJECTS THE CENSUS [...] (C) Summary: Sudan census results are expected to be publicly released in February after endorsement by the Government of National Unity (GNU) Presidency, and the USG must be prepared for the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) to reject the esults. The GoSS has several justifications for a [...] | 2009-02-04 15:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM162 | SUDANESE MFA FORMALLY COMPLAINS ABOUT PURPORTED [...] (C) CDA Fernandez was summoned to the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs the afternoon of February 3 to receive a formal complaint from Sudan about an alleged non-aggression pact between the JEM (Justice and Equality Movement) rebel group and SLM-MM (Sudan Liberation Movement, led by Minni M [...] | 2009-02-05 13:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM163 | DARFUR: JEM HEADS NORTH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: JEM has fled Muhajarriya and appears to be heading north, according to UNAMID and GOS sources. UNDSS contacts told poloff that they now have unconfirmed reports of fighting between JEM and the GOS near Shangil Tobaya. Although the UNAMID Team Site did report receiving indirec [...] | 2009-02-05 15:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM166 | WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE SUDAN PEOPLE'S INITIATIVE? [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sudan People's Initiative (SPI) has been given a headquarters and some funding, but no mandate or support from GOS officials to implement its recommendations, Chairman of the SPI Drafting Committee Professor Atayeb Hajj Attia told CDA Fernandez in a meeting on February 5. Whi [...] | 2009-02-05 15:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM168 | DARFUR: JEM HEADS NORTH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: JEM has fled Muhajarriya and appears to be heading north, according to UNAMID and GOS sources. UNDSS contacts told poloff that they now have unconfirmed reports of fighting between JEM and the GOS near Shangil Tobaya. Although the UNAMID Team Site did report receiving indirec [...] | 2009-02-05 16:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM169 | "DOHA IS A TRAP," WARNS DEFIANT MINNAWI [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-06 10:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM17 | MFA U/S MUTRIFF SIDDIQ DISCUSSES USG AIRLIFTS, [...] (C) Summary: In a January 6 meeting with CDA Fernandez and DLO, MFA Undersecretary Mutriff Siddiq stated that the GOS has given its initial approval for a USG military airlift of UNAMID equipment, but requires the USG to provide the final flight details and liaise with UNAMID. Coordination with [...] | 2009-01-06 15:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM170 | KOSTI RIVER PORT SHOWS SIGNS OF PROGRESS, BUT DRY PORT LAYS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a recent visit to the Nile-river city of Kosti, econoff observed progress on the ongoing refurbishment of Kosti's old but active river port, which is now in the hands of a private investment group from Kuwait. Port officials told econoff that the volume of goods transported fr [...] | 2009-02-08 06:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EWWT EAID PGOV PREL SU KU |
09KHARTOUM172 | SLM/MINNAWI SLAMS JEM, QATAR, AND THE MEDIATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 4 meeting with Special Representative for Sudan Shortley, leaders of the Sudan Liberation Movement of Minni Minnawi in Khartoum vehemently criticized the rival Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel group, Qatar's involvement in the peace process, and the work o [...] | 2009-02-08 09:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM173 | MINAWI REFUSES TO GO TO DOHA [...] (C) SLM leader Minni Minawi and UN/AU Chief Mediator Bassole had a "tough meeting" February 7 in El Fasher during which Minawi refused to travel to Doha this week as part of the Government of Sudan delegation, according to reports from both Minawi and Bassole's Joint Mediation Support Team (JM [...] | 2009-02-08 10:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM177 | INFORMING SUDAN OF U.S. CONCERNS REGARDING MISSILE [...] (S) Charge d'Affaires Fernandez delivered talking points and non-paper (reftel) on February 8 to MFA Undersecretary Mutriff Siddiq. Siddiq had no specific response to the demarche except to note that he would pass the information on to the appropriate channels, and that Sudan has no aggressiv [...] | 2009-02-08 12:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PARM MTCRE PREL KN SU |
09KHARTOUM182 | 40th AEC Plenary: Legislation, Census, Abyei, and Foreign [...] (U) SUMMARY: At the Assessment and Evaluation Commission's (AEC) 40th plenary session on February 3, the NCP and SPLM provided status reports on pending CPA-related legislation (notably the southern referendum law),and plans to announce census results by the end of February. The SPLM refused [...] | 2009-02-09 11:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EAID KDEM KPKO UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM185 | GOVERNMENT OF SOUTHERN SUDAN FACES UNPRECEDENTED ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) is on the cusp of a major economic crisis, hobbled by the absence of a strong fiscal policy and hostage to plummeting oil prices. After two years of seemingly limitless oil revenues and a burst in spending, the GOSS is making widespread bud [...] | 2009-02-09 15:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS ECON EFIN EAID SOCI SU |
09KHARTOUM186 | SMALL VOICE, WEAK LEADERSHIP: SPLM NUBA ON EDGE [...] (C) Summary. The Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement (SPLM) in the Nuba Mountains appears to lack leadership and has not effectively advocated for itself with the SPLM National Secretariat in Juba nor with the Government of National Unity (GNU) in Khartoum. It also appears to lack a vision for [...] | 2009-02-09 15:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC SOCI KDEM AU SU |
09KHARTOUM187 | DARFURI CIVIL SOCIETY AND FORMER REGIME OFFICIALS PUSH FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with Senior Representative for Sudan Tim Shortley and CDA Fernandez, Darfuri civil society leaders and retired government officials pressed for greater U.S. diplomatic involvement in engaging directly with the GOS to solve the Darfur crisis. With Darfuris fed up that [...] | 2009-02-10 08:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM188 | MINNAWI NOT GOING TO DOHA, BUT EAGER TO FIGHT JEM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting with CDA Fernandez in Khartoum on February 9, Minni Minnawi and Ali Traio reiterated that SLM/MM will not intend to send representatives to Doha as part of a GOS delegation to participate in Darfur peace talks with the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). Minnawi critici [...] | 2009-02-10 12:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM189 | AVOIDING MYOPIA ON DARFUR [...] (C) The solutions to Darfur are well known and the UN and international community need look no further than the many initiatives and proposals that Sudanese themselves have produced over the last five years, Umma Reform and Renewal party leader and former regime insider Mubarak al Fadil al Mah [...] | 2009-02-10 13:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM190 | KHALIL WILL BE WORSE THAN MINNI, SAYS PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 10, Presidential Advisor Abdallah Masar told CDA Fernandez that the U.S.'s alleged focus on JEM is dangerous, because Khalil Ibrahim "will be worse than Minni Minnawi." Masar stated that his National Congress Party is intent on holding elections "sooner rather than [...] | 2009-02-10 14:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM191 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE, FEBRUARY 10 [...] (SBU) Summary: As of February 5 the total number of UNAMID military personnel was 12,547, or just over 64 percent of the total authorized force strength. DPKO is pressing UNAMID to facilitate the deployment of an Ethiopian attack helicopter company a soon as possible, but construction of adeq [...] | 2009-02-10 15:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM194 | DARFUR ROUNDUP: SLA/MM CLASHES WITH TRIBESMEN IN NORTH [...] (SBU) Summary: Clashes broke out between the inhabitants of Wadaa in North Darfur and the forces of Minni Minnawi who were returning to the area on February 7 and 10, according to several sources. The local tribesmen were reportedly fed up with SLA/MM and attempted to prevent them from re-occup [...] | 2009-02-11 12:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM198 | REGIME IS CORNERED, SAYS NCP FUR INTELLECTUAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Miscalculations in dealing with the SPLM, Darfur rebels and Northern opposition parties have left the NCP severely weakened and unable to take decisive action, Fur intellectual and NCP member Dr. Faroug Ahmed Adam told CDA Fernandez and poloff in a meeting on February 10. The iro [...] | 2009-02-12 11:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU |
09KHARTOUM2 | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF PRO-GOVERNMENT DAILY CONTENDS U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 30, 2008, the Public Affairs Officer and Information Assistant visited, "Sudan Vision" Editor-in-Chief and former International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) participant Saif Adeen Elbashir Ahmed Hassan. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss an upcoming PAS [...] | 2009-01-02 06:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM203 | KHARTOUM EAC CONVENES AFTER MEDIA REPORTS ICC WILL ISSUE [...] (SBU) The CDA convened Embassy Khartoum's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on February 12 to review the Mission's security posture after the New York Times and several other major media outlets reported the International Criminal Court (ICC) will issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President [...] | 2009-02-12 14:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AEMR AMGT PGOV SU |
09KHARTOUM204 | MESSAGE OF CONGRATULATIONS FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA FROM THE [...] (U) Post has received a letter of congratulations (text in para. 2) for President Obama from the President of the Republic of the Sudan, H.E. Omer Hassan Ahmed Al-Bashir. A copy of the original letter is being transmitted to the Department via pouch. 2. (U) Begin Text: February 11, 2009 [...] | 2009-02-13 09:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM208 | FUR SHURA COUNCIL PROPOSAL TO UNITE DARFURIANS [...] (SBU) Summary: Abdul Wahid has cemented his role as leader of the Fur through his close contacts with the popularly-elected IDP camp sheiks, members of the Fur Shura Council told poloffs on February 8. The camp sheikhs have gained power at the expense of the traditional tribal leaders, they sai [...] | 2009-02-17 04:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM209 | COMMUNIST PARTY HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER: "I DON'T REPRESENT THE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a February 16 telephone call, renowned human rights lawyer Salih Mahmoud Osman told poloff he is attending the Doha negotiations as a parliamentary observer from the Sudanese Communist Party, and stressed that he is not entitled by the Fur people to participate in negotiations [...] | 2009-02-17 04:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM21 | AEC PLENARY - ABYEI UPDATE FROM UNMIS FORCE COMMANDER [...] (SBU) During the first Assessment and Evaluation Plenary session of 2009, UNMIS Force Commander Brigadier General Thapa provided an update on the situation in Abyei. He said the ceasefire per the July Abyei Roadmap has held, with the exception of the December 12 shooting incident in the Abyei [...] | 2009-01-07 11:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM210 | USAID PARTNER STAFF EXPELLED FROM SUDAN [...] (SBU) Last week the Country Director for USAID implementing partner PADCO-AECOM was given 48 hours to leave Sudan by the Government of Sudan's Humanitarian Affairs Commission (HAC). The order was in direct response to a discussion between the Charg d'Affaires and the HAC Commissioner at the Hi [...] | 2009-02-17 05:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM211 | DARFUR'S NOMADS REQUEST DEVELOPMENT AID AND CHANCE TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 15, the Nomads Development Council (NDC) led by Abdalla Safi Al-Nur told CDA Fernandez that Darfur's nomads (the majority of which are Arab, although the non-Arab Zaghawa are also nomadic) are misunderstood, marginalized, and in need of humanitarian aid and developme [...] | 2009-02-17 05:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM212 | CHADIAN REBELS COMMITTED TO DIALOGUE, BUT TIME IS [...] (C) SUMMARY: From February 12-16, four Chadian rebels from the United Resistance Front (UFR) separately told poloffs that they are currently committed to political dialogue, but cautioned that time is running out as they wait for deeper diplomatic engagement from the European Union and Unit [...] | 2009-02-17 10:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM213 | NCP OFFICIAL SYMPATHETIC BUT NONCOMMITTAL ON [...] (C) Summary: On February 12, CDA Fernandez met with senior NCP official Qutbi al Mahdi, who maintains a keen interest in humanitarian affairs. CDA expressed his concern that on the very same day he received a conciliatory letter from President Bashir to President Obama (reftel a),the GOS Huma [...] | 2009-02-17 10:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM217 | WHILE ABYEI TEETERS ON THE EDGE, COMPLEX BUDGETIING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Over eight months after the June 8 Roadmap Agreement was signed, the Abyei Interim Administration remains stymied by a critical lack of funding. GoS officials described complex and confusing financing procedures, and blame the AIA for failing to take the steps necessary for mo [...] | 2009-02-18 12:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM218 | SUDAN RESPONSE: EFFORTS TO COMBAT SEXUAL ABUSE AND [...] (SBU) UNAMID requires all military personnel, civilian employees and UN Volunteers to undergo training to recognize, report and prevent sexual exploitation and abuse. John Alstrom, UNAMID Chief of Staff, and Wayne Hyde, head of the UNAMID Conduct and Discipline Unit (CDU),said that UNAMID's 1 [...] | 2009-02-18 14:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM219 | TOUGH ECONOMIC TIMES POSE CHALLENGE TO DISARMAMENT, [...] Summary: On February 16, Sudan's National DDR Coordinating Council hosted a donor conference in Juba to discuss the latest developments in their efforts to reduce SAF and SPLA forces, and to encourage donors to provide additional funds to support the reintegration of former soldiers into civili [...] | 2009-02-19 05:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM22 | CORRECTED COPY - AEC PLENARY - ABYEI UPDATE FROM UNMIS [...] (SBU) During the first Assessment and Evaluation Plenary session of 2009, UNMIS Force Commander Brigadier General Thapa provided an update on the situation in Abyei. He said the ceasefire per the June 8 Abyei Roadmap has held, with the exception of the December 12 shooting incident in the Abye [...] | 2009-01-07 12:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM220 | DARFUR UPDATE: REPORTS OF SAF BOMBING, GROUND ATTACKS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The SAF has been bombing the SLA/Abdul Wahid-held area of Kutur in East Jebel Marra beginning at 07:00 on February 18, an SLA/AW commander told poloff. He stated that the bombing has resulted in six civilian deaths and the destruction of many homes and livestock. GOS paramilitar [...] | 2009-02-19 06:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM223 | ANNOUNCEMENT OF CENSUS RESULTS TO BE DELAYED AT LEAST UNTIL [...] (SBU) On 16 February the Fifth Population Census of Sudan Technical Working Group (TWG) met in Khartoum to review the national census priority results and make a decision on whether the results should be forwarded to the National Population Census Council (NPCC). At the meeting, the Central Bu [...] | 2009-02-20 08:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM224 | GNU CONTEMPLATES DIRECT BUDGET SUPPORT TO GOSS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to GOSS Minister for Finance Kuol Athian Mawien, GNU Finance Minister Awad al Jaz has endorsed a draft proposal for direct budget support to the Government of Southern Sudan following two days of negotiations with his GOSS ministerial counterpart and the Fiscal Financia [...] | 2009-02-20 08:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS ECON EAID EFIN SU AE |
09KHARTOUM225 | USAID PARTNER ASSETS SEIZED IN SUDAN [...] (SBU) The Government of Sudan's Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) proceeded on February 18 with a summary seizure of assets used by USAID implementing partners PADCO-AECOM and International Rescue Committee (IRC). These seizures are the latest in a continuing pattern of intimidation and disrup [...] | 2009-02-20 09:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM226 | WINNERS AND LOSERS FROM DOHA AND NEXT STEPS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although the Doha process continues, the conclusion of the initial phase of the process on February 17 with an "Agreement of Good Will and Confidence Building" between JEM and the GoS (reftel a-d) left behind notable early losers and winners. Rapidly changing events in Sudan, [...] | 2009-02-20 11:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM227 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: As of February 17 the total number of UNAMID military personnel was 12,611, or 64 percent of the total authorized force strength. UNAMID is preparing for the arrival of the Ethiopian attack helicopter unit and believes it has sufficient authorization from the GOS to begin contr [...] | 2009-02-21 11:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM23 | KHARTOUM: SECTION 565 WAIVER REQUEST [...] (SBU) Khartoum requests waiver of the requirements of Section 565 of Title V, Part C of the Foreign Relations Authorizations Act for the reasons contained in paragraph two. 2. (SBU) Both the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),which ended the 21-year civil war in 2005, and the Interim Natio [...] | 2009-01-08 09:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KBCT PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM230 | SPLM NEGOTIATOR ARMAN ON DOHA DARFUR TALKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to Doha talks participant Yasser Arman, the GNU-JEM &Goodwill Agreement8 reached there potentially could re-energize the political process in Darfur, if it is enforced and if Sudan,s neighbors and other rebel factions can be engaged, but the behavior of JEM in the talk [...] | 2009-02-22 10:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC KPKO AU UNSC SU QA |
09KHARTOUM231 | DECEMBER OIL REVENUES PLUNGE ON FALLING PRICES; [...] (C) Summary: On February 15 the Joint Committee on Oil Accounts announced that GOS oil revenues for December totaled $274.38 million, down from $347.79 million in November and $608.76 million in October as the global financial crisis sent oil prices plummeting. The price of the heavily acidic [...] | 2009-02-22 10:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ECON EFIN ENRG KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM233 | SPLA AFFAIRS MINISTER SAYS RENEWED CONFLICT WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with ConGen staff on February 17, Nhial Deng Nhial, the newly installed Minister for SPLA Affairs, termed renewed conflict with the North &nearly inevitable,8 emphasized the need to disarm local civilian populations in the South in order to put a stop to increasing [...] | 2009-02-22 10:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC SOCI KPKO UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM234 | NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION STILL AIMS FOR ELECTIONS IN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-22 11:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM236 | GOS REFUSES TO ISSUE VISAS FOR U.S. MILITARY [...] (C) Following almost a year of agonizing lack of clarity during which the GOS first delayed, then verbally approved, and then once again delayed the issuance of visas for the U.S. military staff officers assigned to UNAMID, just days before the arrival of two of the officers, MFA U/S Mutriff S [...] | 2009-02-22 13:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM238 | Ed Daein Humanitarian Update [...] During February 1-3 a joint USAID assessment team comprised of representatives from USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) and the USAID Mission Program Office visited Ed Daein, South Darfur. The team monitored USAID/OFDA-funded programs and assessed the humanitarian [...] | 2009-02-22 14:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM240 | NCP-SPLM DISAGREEMENT ON KEY LEGISLATION PREVENTS NATIONAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. According to GNU State Minister of Justice Wek Mamer Kuol (SPLM) the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) are discussing eleven pieces of outstanding CPA-related legislation. While the two parties have agreed upon several of the draft [...] | 2009-02-23 06:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM245 | DARFUR ROUNDUP: JEM CLASHES WITH SLA/MM AND SAF; SKEPTICISM [...] (SBU) Summary: MFA U/S Mutriff Siddiq told CDA Fernandez on February 22 that despite its public statements, the NCP recognizes that little was achieved at the recent talks in Doha, and that no agreement to which JEM is the only party will bring peace to Darfur. Siddiq also accused JEM of desta [...] | 2009-02-23 14:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM246 | FEBRUARY 18 UNAMID-AU-GOS TRIPARTITE MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: The African Union, United Nations, and the GoS discussed deployment of the UN-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) at a February 18 tripartite meeting in Khartoum. The parties discussed visa delays, railroad and police vehicle maintenance, and made oblique but r [...] | 2009-02-23 14:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM247 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY PROGRAMS SPUR IDENTITY DISCUSSION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Public Affairs Section (PAS) in Khartoum and the U.S. Consulate General in Juba cast a wide net within civil society for this year's African-American History Month programming. Participants sought to learn from America's experience in combating racism, addressing cultural di [...] | 2009-02-24 06:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI AU MCAP KPAO OIIP OPRC SU |
09KHARTOUM249 | SUDAN COMPLAINS OF “PROBABLY AMERICAN†BOMBING [...] (S) CDA Fernandez was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on the morning of February 24 by Americas Department head Ambassador Nasreddin Wali. Wali said that he had sensitive and worrisome information to relate to the Charge. Reading from hand-written notes in Arabic and referring to a large dog-eared [...] | 2009-02-24 10:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC MASS PARM PGOV PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM250 | FIGHTING ERUPTS IN MALAKAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Calm is slowly returning to Malakal following a multi-hour firefight in the center of the state capital provoked by Gabriel Tanginiya's return to the South. The SAF-aligned militia commander was directly responsible for the bloody 2006 confrontation between the SAF and SPLA in M [...] | 2009-02-24 11:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINS KPKO UNSC ASEC MARR MOPS SU |
09KHARTOUM252 | NEW MINISTER ATTEMPTS TO CURB SPLA CORRUPTION [...] (U) This is an action request - see para. 8 2. (C) SUMMARY: SPLA Affairs Minister Nhial Deng Nhial is attempting to move against commanders he suspects of corruption within the SPLA's senior echelons less than one month into his ministerial tenure. The Minister's political cover for the i [...] | 2009-02-24 12:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS EFIN MOPS MARR KDEM KCOR SU |
09KHARTOUM255 | DEVELOPMENT, AND NOT JUST EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE, IS NEEDED [...] (SBU) On February 23, Ibrahim Musa Madibbo, Chairman of the Transitional Darfur Regional Authority's Rehabilitation and Resettlement Commission, presented his institution's work to CDA Fernandez. The stack of books in Arabic included: a study documenting the root causes of the conflict in Dar [...] | 2009-02-24 13:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM256 | TURABI STILL IN JAIL; PCP CONTINUES TO BE HARASSED [...] (U) SUMMARY: Despite a number of pleas to local and international audiences by the Popular Congress Party (PCP),the organization's leader, Hassan al-Turabi, remains imprisoned by the Sudanese regime. Formerly a leading member of the Sudanese regime that came to power in 1989, Turabi's arrest [...] | 2009-02-24 14:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPAO KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM257 | KHARTOUM EAC CONVENES [...] (SBU) The CDA convened the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on Tuesday, February 24, to review the general security situation in light of yesterday's notice that the International Criminal Court (ICC) will announce its indictment decision on March 4. The DCM, PAO, USAID A/MD, USAID EXO, POL, [...] | 2009-02-25 04:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AEMR AMGT PGOV SU |
09KHARTOUM259 | MINNAWI: WE ARE CHASING JEM OUT OF DARFUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 24, the Chairman of the Sudan Liberation Movement and Senior Presidential Assistant Minni Minnawi told CDA Fernandez that his fighters are currently chasing JEM fighters north to the Chadian border and out of Sudan. Minnawi reported that his forces have been emergin [...] | 2009-02-25 08:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM260 | UN DONOR PRINCIPALS' MEETING, FEBRUARY 24 [...] (SBU) Summary: In a February 24 meeting, UN Humanitarian officials told donor principals that contingency planning for the March 4 ICC announcement has not detracted from humanitarian operations, and that they plan to continue working. In Darfur, access to Muhajeriya and surrounding areas has i [...] | 2009-02-25 10:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM262 | MALAKAL TENSIONS PERSIST AFTER TANGINIYA DEPARTS [...] (U) This is an action request - see para. 13. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Erstwhile SSDF Commander and current SAF Major General Gabriel Tanginiya returned to Khartoum February 24 following his evacuation from Malakal via a chartered Antanov flight. GOSS Vice President Riek Machar, who arrived in [...] | 2009-02-25 12:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINS KPKO UNSC ASEC MARR MOPS SU |
09KHARTOUM263 | FORMER REBELS (TURNED GOVERNMENT AGENTS?) PROMOTE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 23, members of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Free Will (SLM/FW,) a rebel movement which entered the Darfur Peace Agreement after Minni Minnawi, told CDA Fernandez that they are working to unite the Fur tribe. According to these contacts, their work is needed as the [...] | 2009-02-25 12:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM264 | SPLM LEADERSHIP IN THE NUBA MOUNTAINS IN FLUX [...] (SBU) Summary. In a decisive and long-overdue move, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Council of Southern Kordofan voted to oust Deputy Governor Daniel Kodi from his position of SPLM State Chairman. The vote of no-confidence in Kodi as the SPLM's lead-man in the Nuba Mountains is [...] | 2009-02-25 13:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM265 | GOS-JEM "DETAINEE EXCHANGE" A ONE-SIDED AFFAIR [...] (SBU) As a "goodwill gesture" to the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) following the Doha talks, the GOS released 24 detainees on February 22 who it claimed were members of JEM. JEM Spokesman Ahmed Hussein was unable to immediately confirm if the detainees - whose names were published [...] | 2009-02-25 13:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM273 | JEM RETREATS TOWARDS CHAD [...] (SBU) Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebels have retreated towards Chad, according to according to UNAMID and GOS sources. A source at UNAMID told poloff on February 26 that approximately 60 vehicles crossed into Chadian territory on February 24 carrying wounded fighters, and were headed t [...] | 2009-02-26 13:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM276 | RESPONSE - SUDAN COMPLAINS OF "PROBABLY AMERICAN" [...] (S) CDA Fernandez informed Sudanese MFA U/S Mutriff Siddiq on February 26 that, per reftel a, "the United States did not/not carry out these reported attacks." Siddiq said that he will make sure that this response is disseminated to the appropriate government channels. RAO will also follow up [...] | 2009-02-27 08:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC PARM PGOV PREL SU MASS ASEC |
09KHARTOUM278 | JIU DISARMAMENT IN UPPER NILE STATE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-27 13:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS KPKO UNSC ASEC MARR MOPS SU |
09KHARTOUM28 | JEM ON THE MOVE IN NORTH DARFUR? [...] (C) UNAMID reported on January 8 that JEM had moved approximately 200 vehicles into the vicinity of Mellit, North Darfur over the course of the previous week. The vehicles were reportedly spotted in an area called Daba Tuga, 20 kilometers northwest of Mellit (60 kilometers north of El Fasher) [...] | 2009-01-11 14:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM282 | BASHIR TAKES THE HIGH ROAD AT UMMA PARTY CONVENTION [...] (SBU) The opening of the Umma Party's 7th national convention on February 26 attracted a constellation of Sudan's political elite with party head Sadiq al-Mahdi welcoming representatives from the Democratic Unionist Party (Sudan's other traditional party),Sudanese Communist Party, Popular Con [...] | 2009-03-01 10:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM287 | CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT FOR SUDAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-02 08:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP SU |
09KHARTOUM288 | NEGOTIATING FOR ITS OWN SURVIVAL: HOW THE NCP USES [...] (C) As the new U.S. Administration considers options on how best to engage with the Sudanese regime and considers the possibility of discussing with the regime on our key foreign policy objectives in Sudan, it is important to keep in mind that the National Congress Party (NCP) regime never saw [...] | 2009-03-02 12:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM289 | MEASURED U.S. RESPONSE WILL TEMPER GOS REACTION TO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-02 13:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM29 | TEARS, DEATH AND DANCING: THE FOURTH ANNIVERSARY [...] (SBU) Sudan's peace partners gathered in the city of Malakal, capital of Upper Nile state, to mark the fourth anniversary of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) on January 9, 2009. The festivities were overshadowed by tribal fighting just outside Malakal's soccer stadium (where nation [...] | 2009-01-12 06:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM290 | MFA ASSURES EMBASSY OF PROTECTION DURING ICC CRISIS [...] (SBU) MFA Director of Protocol Ali Yusuf called in CDA Fernandez on March 2 to outline GOS precautions taken to protect foreign missions in general and the US Embassy in particular in the light of possible unrest after an International Criminal Court (ICC) announcement on President Omar al-Ba [...] | 2009-03-02 14:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL PTER SU |
09KHARTOUM297 | DARFUR CALM BUT TENSE AHEAD OF MARCH 4 ICC ANNOUNCEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Darfur is calm but tense ahead of the March 4 ICC announcement. Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) leaders are actively warning IDPs against engaging in any public celebrations in response to the expected ICC indictment of President Bashir. At the same time, they express confid [...] | 2009-03-03 14:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM299 | IN ADVANCE OF ICC DECISION, GOS KEEPS PRESSURE ON DARFUR [...] (SBU) On March 1, the Government of National Unity (GNU) Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) in Khartoum told representatives of CHF International,EedeCans S`ns FrontIeres%Net`erlands (MSF/H),Solidarites, CARE International, MSF/France (MSF/F),and OXFAM International that, for security reasons [...] | 2009-03-04 07:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM3 | "NEW SUDAN" WAS A MYTH, SAYS SOUTHERN OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (SBU) Summary. The Garang Vision of a "New Sudan" is a myth, and any Southern leaders who think otherwise are simply deluding themselves because Arab resistance to Southern governance is simply insurmountable, veteran Southern independence figure Peter Sule told poloffs on December 23. Sule als [...] | 2009-01-02 07:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM301 | AU STILL LABORING OVER DARFUR JUSTICE, BUT EXPERTS [...] (SBU) Summary: The African Union is capable of investigating crimes in Darfur, but by supporting the ICC, the international community is endangering the pursuit of peace and justice in the troubled Sudanese region, according to the acting director of the AU Darfur portfolio and senior JMST advi [...] | 2009-03-04 09:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM302 | CHADIAN REBELS LEAVE KHARTOUM AND EXPECT AN ATTACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 26, polchief and poloff met Mahamat Hanno, a close associate of UFR President Timane Erdimi, and Mukhtar ben Yahya, a UFR representative and personal representative of UFDD/F's Abdulwahid Aboud. The Chadian rebels said they expect fighting between the ANT and their [...] | 2009-03-04 09:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM306 | SUDAN RESPONDS TO ICC WARRANT BY EJECTING NGOs [...] (SBU) Summary: Immediately following the ICC's announcement of the arrest warrant for President Bashir on March 4, the Government of National Unity (GNU) Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) ordered 10 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to depart Sudan within 24 hours. At least three addition [...] | 2009-03-05 12:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM307 | GOSS MINISTER BENJAMIN ASSURES SAFETY OF INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: In a March 5th meeting with the international community in Juba, GOSS Minister for Regional Cooperation Barnabas Benjamin assured the international community that the GOSS has taken multiple steps to ensure their safety in the face of ICC indictments of GNU President Omar al Bash [...] | 2009-03-06 13:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS ECON KPKO UNSC ASEC MARR MOPS SU |
09KHARTOUM308 | MFA AND UN BRIEF DONORS ON NGO EXPULSIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 5 MFA U/S Mutriff Siddiq briefed diplomatic Chiefs of Mission on the expulsions of NGOs, claiming that the organizations had exceeded their mandates and therefore had been asked to leave Sudan. Siddiq acknowledged that "we are also concerned about gaps left by these org [...] | 2009-03-06 13:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM309 | GENERALLY CALM REACTIONS TO ICC ARREST WARRANT FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Immediately following the March 4 announcement that the International Criminal Court (ICC) had issued an arrest warrant against President Omar al Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity, Emboffs reached out to a range of contacts for a sampling of reactions. Most evin [...] | 2009-03-06 14:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPKO KDEM KAWC UNSC ASEC |
09KHARTOUM310 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE, MARCH 4, 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: As of March 3, 2009, the total number of UNAMID military personnel was 12,939, or 66.16 percent of the total authorized force strength. UNAMID continues to prepare for the arrival of the Ethiopian attack helicopter unit, welcoming an Ethiopian officer assigned to facilitate the [...] | 2009-03-07 10:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM311 | ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF THE NGO EXPULSION AMIDST CONTINUED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The impact of the expulsion of more than 13 NGOs from Sudan(ten international expelled and three domestic NGOs dissolved) is only beginning to be felt, and the NGO staff report considerable harassment from the GOS Humanitarian Affairs Commision (HAC) as they attempt to organize [...] | 2009-03-07 11:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM312 | NCP HAS NO INTENTION OF FUNDING ABYEI, WARNS GOSS OFFICIAL [...] (SBU) CDA Fernandez, AEC Chairman Plumbly and the Dutch Ambassador met with GOSS Minister of Presidential Affairs Luka Biong Deng on March 5 in Khartoum to review the current state of play in the sensitive border area of Abyei and to compare notes on the state of the National Congress Party (NC [...] | 2009-03-07 12:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM313 | NCP SHOWS SOME FLEXIBILITY ON NGO EXPULSIONS, BUT THE [...] (SBU) Summary: CDA Fernandez delivered cleared talking points to senior GNU regime and NCP officials March 7 regarding the expulsion of NGOs from Sudan. The NCP stuck to its hard line that "the expulsions are not reversible" but showed some flexibility on the question of a prolonged departure [...] | 2009-03-07 13:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM315 | HOARSE BASHIR KICKS OFF DAYS OF ANTI-ICC, ANTI-WESTERN [...] (U) On March 5, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, now a wanted ICC indictee, kicked off the first of a series of popular demonstrations aimed at solidifying support for the regime and for the President personally. While the rhetoric has often been incendiary, the rallies have so far been peac [...] | 2009-03-08 08:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM318 | UN TRIES TO COME UP WITH A PLAN AS NGO EMERGENCY CONTINUES [...] (SBU) The crisis resulting from Sudan's March 4 decision to expel 13 major Western NGOs (and dissolve 3 Sudanese NGOs) continued on March 8 as regional players, western embassies, the UN, and the SPLM urged a reluctant and publicly defiant Bashir regime to relent. President Bashir denounced the [...] | 2009-03-08 13:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM321 | NGO EXPULSIONS FURTHER DAMAGE SPLM-NCP RELATIONS [...] (C) The government's decision to expel 13 INGOs (and dissolve 3 local NGOs) from operating in Sudan has not just damaged the regime's relations with the West, it has also damaged the ruling party's relations with the SPLM, which was not consulted at all about the decision, according to SPLM De [...] | 2009-03-08 14:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL PGOV KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM323 | EXPELLED NGOS MEET WITH USAID AND EMBASSY STAFF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 8, the expatriate staff from several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) met with CDA Fernandez, Emboffs, and USAID staff in Khartoum. NGOs provided a summary of GOS harassment, program close-out and ongoing bureaucratic issues to date following the GOS order for the [...] | 2009-03-09 13:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM324 | BASHIR DEFIANT AS IDPs PREDICT CRISIS IN THE CAMPS [...] (SBU) Summary: As authorities press ahead with the decision to expel NGOs from Darfur, a defiant Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir addressed a rally in El Fasher on March 8. In addition to accusing the U.S. of killing "millions" of Muslims, he denounced both the ICC and NGO workers as "agents [...] | 2009-03-09 15:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM325 | GOS HARASSMENT OF EXPELLED NGO STAFF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In meetings at the UN and at USAID, NGO officials outlined a systematic campaign by the Government of Sudan to seize assets and harass staff of the NGOs expelled in the wake of the ICC announcement on March 4. Post will continue to protest the harassment of NGOs and Amcits to G [...] | 2009-03-09 15:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM326 | THE EXPULSION OF NGOS WAS THE "MINIMUM WE COULD [...] (C) Summary: NCP political chief Mandour al-Mahdi said that Western fears of a worsening humanitarian crisis in Darfur following the expulsion of NGOs are greatly exaggerated as Sudanese organizations are ready, willing and able to step in. The NGOs in question had been preventing the voluntar [...] | 2009-03-10 14:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL PGOV PPKO SOCI AU SU |
09KHARTOUM327 | TURABI: FREE AT LAST - BUT WHY, AND WHAT'S GOING [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 10, CDA Fernandez met with Popular Congress Party leader Dr. Hassan al-Turabi at his house in Khartoum. Turabi, who was released from Port Sudan prison on March 9, appeared in good health and talked about his treatment in prison, the strange nature of his release, and th [...] | 2009-03-10 14:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL PGOV PPKO SOCI AU SU |
09KHARTOUM328 | GOSS MINISTER BENJAMIN SAYS EGYPT WILL RECOGNIZE AN [...] (SBU) Summary: In a March 5th meeting with the international community in Juba, Government of South Sudan (GOSS) Minister for Regional Cooperation (the GOSS' de facto foreign ministry) Barnabas Benjamin gave a briefing on his latest tour of regional capitals on behalf of the GOSS. His top acco [...] | 2009-03-10 15:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD MOPS MARR KPKO UNSC SU EG CF UG RU |
09KHARTOUM329 | 41ST AEC PLENARY DISCUSSES MALAKAL INCIDENT, ELECTION [...] (U) SUMMARY: At its 41st Plenary meeting on March 2, the Assessment and Evaluation Committee's (AEC) discussion of the February 24-26 fighting in Malakal that killed 57 and wounded 68 focused primarily on the continuing inadequacies of the Joint Integrated Units. The Parties reported some pro [...] | 2009-03-11 02:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM KPKO UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM330 | TWO REPORTS ANALYZE SOUTH SUDAN'S BUDGET CRISIS [...] This is an action request - see para. 13. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: According to two independent analyses, the GoSS can expect to receive no more than 3/4, and possibly as little as 1/2, of the Sudanese Pounds (SDG) 3.658 billion revenues anticipated in its 2009 budget. Transfers from the Govern [...] | 2009-03-11 11:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EAID PREL PGOV SOCI SU |
09KHARTOUM332 | NGO EXPULSION WILL HAVE A MASSIVE IMPACT ON THE ABILITY TO [...] (SBU) Summary. An initial assessment shows that the expulsion of NGOs will have a direct, negative impact on the key priority of the CPA to promote peace and stability in the volatile "Three Areas" bordering North and South Sudan. The expulsions resulted in major cuts in three types of progra [...] | 2009-03-11 12:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM334 | SUGGESTED DONOR RESPONSE TO THE NGO EXPULSIONS [...] (U) This is an action request, please see para 9. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The US Embassy and other donor missions in Khartoum continue to work closely with the UN Mission in Khartoum to assess the impact of the NGO expulsions and examine possible responses. Today the UN began a one-week joint fi [...] | 2009-03-11 14:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM339 | GOS SOFTENS TONE TOWARD NGOs, BUT CONTINUES TO PLAN FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During a March 10 meeting, GOS Humanitarian Assistance Commission (HAC) Secretary General Ahmed Adam promised to treat NGOs better during program closures. Adam said that Sudanese police will no longer be involved in close-out procedures, and that HAC will no longer restrict NG [...] | 2009-03-12 12:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM342 | MARCH 12 NGO STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: The unlawful expulsion of the 13 INGOs on March 5 has exposed the absence of any legal framework to govern humanitarian activity and left remaining INGOs hostage to the political whims of the GOS, members of the NGO Steering Committee told Donor Ambassadors on March 12. This lack [...] | 2009-03-12 14:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM343 | SUDANESE JIHADIST RHETORIC HEATS UP, THEN COOLS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There has been a significant rise in public anti-Western rhetoric from both regime figures and extremist groups since the International Criminal Court (ICC)'s March 4 announcement of an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir. Whether the remarks are a start of a re [...] | 2009-03-12 14:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPAO KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM344 | UPDATE FROM DARFUR - KIDNAPPINGS, ATTEMPTED UNAMID [...] Summary: The GOS has "lit a slow-burning fuse" in denying key international NGOs access, and IDPs remain convinced that GOS authorities purposefully intend to reduce humanitarian coverage in Darfur, sources in UNAMID and among IDPs indicate. IDPs queued and drained water reserves in camps this [...] | 2009-03-12 14:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM347 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE, MARCH 12, 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: Construction is slated to begin shortly on the facilities necessary for the May arrival of the Ethiopian attack helicopters, but the GOS has yet to convey its approval of their arrival to UNAMID. Nepalese authorities have scheduled an official UNAMID pre-deployment visit in May, [...] | 2009-03-13 13:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM348 | KHARTOUM EAC CONVENES ON MARCH 12 [...] (SBU) CDA Fernandez convened the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on Thursday, March 12, to review the current security situation in Sudan after Authorized Departure was announced on March 10. The DCM, POL, MGT, DLO, RAO, USAID, IMO, RMO, PAO, OBO SSM, CONS, and RSO were in attendance. 2 [...] | 2009-03-13 13:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AEMR AMGT PGOV PTER SU |
09KHARTOUM349 | AUTHORIZED DEPARTURE SUDAN - STAFF AT POST [...] Per Reftel A, Post has identified employees/eligible family members at post by agency who plan to depart imminently. Reftel B, Para. 18 requests post to identify all remaining employees/eligible family members at post, by agency, who would depart in the next phase of an evacuation. Post antic [...] | 2009-03-13 13:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT AEMR CASC KFLO AFIN ASEC SU |
09KHARTOUM357 | NCP PASSES A PARLIAMENTARY RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE INGO [...] (SBU) Poloff met with Deputy Speaker of the National Parliament Atem Garang (SPLM) on March 13th to discuss the March 12th emergency session of the Parliament, as well as gather his views on national elections. Garang informed poloff that during the Parliamentary session, the National Congress [...] | 2009-03-16 04:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM358 | EXPAT FUR INTELLECTUAL URGES ROOM FOR CIVIL SOCIETY IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Darfuris can solve the crisis in their homeland if the international community presses the GOS to allow Darfuri civil society to operate there, according to Dr. El Tigani Sesei, one of Darfur's preeminent expatriate intellectuals. El Tigani characterized Abdul Wahid as "catastro [...] | 2009-03-16 12:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM365 | BASHIR CONTINUES TIRADE AGAINST THE WEST AND PROMISES TO [...] (SBU) Summary: In a fiery speech March 16, President Bashir announced that all international aid organizations would be forced to leave Sudan within a year. For now, moderate NCP officials appear to be backing the President, and we have heard a surprising number of moderate NCP official say th [...] | 2009-03-16 15:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM367 | GOS STAGE MANAGES RESOLUTION OF ITS MANUFACTURED HOSTAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The MSF employees kidnapped by unknown abductors are free in Khartoum after a stage-managed hostage release. The identity and whereabouts of the hostage-takers are unknown, but all signs point to some level of coordination of the kidnapping by GoS officials. The Canadian Embassy [...] | 2009-03-16 17:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM37 | SUDANESE INTELLIGENCE CHIEF SAYS GOS READY TO WORK [...] (C) Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS ) Chief Salah Ghosh said that the Government of Sudan (GoS) is ready to cooperate with the new US administration, particularly on the Darfur crisis. He suggested that a definitive solution to Darfur is near and could be an "early vi [...] | 2009-01-12 15:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO SOCI AU SU |
09KHARTOUM371 | GOS STAGE MANAGES RESOLUTION OF ITS MANUFACTURED HOSTAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The MSF employees kidnapped by unknown abductors are free in Khartoum after a stage-managed hostage release. The identity and whereabouts of the hostage-takers are unknown, but all signs point to some level of coordination of the kidnapping by GoS officials. The Canadian Embassy [...] | 2009-03-17 07:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM372 | SLA/UNITY TO NEGOTIATE WITH GOS IN DOHA [...] (SBU) Summary: SLA/Unity and four smaller Darfur rebel factions have agreed to attend negotiations with the GOS in Doha, signing a deal in Tripoli on March 15 with Qatari FM Ali Mahmoud looking on. Talks in Doha with the "Unity Plus" group should begin in two weeks, as Joint Mediator Djibril Ba [...] | 2009-03-17 09:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM375 | MALAKAL REMAINS UNSTABLE [...] (SBU) Summary: According to UN and JIU sources, the situation in Malakal (Upper Nile State, southern Sudan) is still very unpredictable, and the recent attacks on the Muerle community in Pibor have contributed to the splintering of the Malakal SAF JIU. The latter has now split into four faction [...] | 2009-03-17 15:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM377 | UN, DONORS, NGOS SCRAMBLE TO KEEP UP WITH SLOWLY [...] (SBU) Summary: United Nations Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General (D/SRSG) Ameerah Haq and members of the INGO Steering Committee (INGO-SC) briefed donors over the past two days on the status of INGO expulsions and efforts to address the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. This wa [...] | 2009-03-18 06:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM379 | NCP ITSELF DOESN'T KNOW WHAT IS NEXT, WARNS [...] (C) Summary: Sudanese Foreign Minister Deng Alor warned that President Bashir's own ruling National Congress Party (NCP) "doesn't know what the regime will do next, underscoring the extreme volatility of current decision-making in Sudan. SPLM frustration with the NCP has reached a point that m [...] | 2009-03-18 08:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM382 | ICC ARREST WARRANT FOR BASHIR IS A GAME-CHANGER FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The ICC's issuance of an arrest warrant for Government of National Unity (GNU) President Al-Bashir will certainly have a bearing on the process of democratic transformation in Sudan, and the national elections in particular. As a result, the USG needs to be prepared politically [...] | 2009-03-18 13:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM383 | TWIN CRISES IN DARFUR'S ZAM ZAM IDP CAMP [...] (SBU) Summary: Over 36,000 new arrivals in Zam Zam IDP camp are living in extremely precarious conditions, with little or no access to water, food, health care, shelter, or education, according to what IDPs told CDA Fernandez and Embassy staff on a March 16 visit to Zam Zam. Several persons who [...] | 2009-03-18 15:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM384 | EMBASSY RAISES WITH MFA AMCIT HARASSMENT AND CHILDREN'S [...] (SBU) On March 18, DCM Asquino and conoff met with Ambassador Ahmed El Tijani, Director General of the Aliens and Borders Department and members of his staff. The Mission requested the meeting, which took the MFA eight days to arrange, to discuss the harassment by Government of Sudan (GOS) off [...] | 2009-03-18 16:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM386 | SPLM LEADERS TRY TO PROTECT AID TO THREE AREAS [...] Summary. Vice President of the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) Riek Machar, and SPLM representatives from Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan states and the Abyei Administration traveled to Khartoum on March 15 to participate in a meeting with Government of National Unity (GNU) Vice President [...] | 2009-03-19 09:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM390 | EMBASSY TRIP TO EL FASHER MARCH 15-17 [...] (SBU) Summary: The expulsion of 13 INGOs has led to a deterioration of services in IDP camps that local NGOs have neither the capacity nor inclination to fill, representatives of Al Salaam, Abu Shouk and Zam Zam (reftel) IDP Camps told CDA Fernandez on a March 15-17 trip to El Fasher. They also [...] | 2009-03-19 14:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM393 | NEC OFFICIAL SUPPORTS STAGGERED ELECTIONS, SHUNS A [...] Summary: One of the nine National Electoral Commission (NEC) members, Mukhtar Assam, stated that the NEC would very soon inform the GNU that full-scale elections by the CPA-intended elections date of July are not technically feasible. Assam said that elections in November-December 2009 or Jan [...] | 2009-03-20 10:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID KDEM SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM40 | WESTERN EQUATORIA GOVERNOR CALLS FOR ARMED CIVILIAN FORCE [...] (SBU) Western Equatoria State Governor Jemma Kumba has requested that the SPLA arm her state's civilian population in the face of renewed and increasingly violent LRA activity in her state since the UPDF bombing of suspected LRA areas in Garamba Park in early December 2008. SPLA Chief of Staff [...] | 2009-01-13 16:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINS MARR MOPS ASEC SU UG |
09KHARTOUM400 | SPLM INSIDER ON SNAP ELECTIONS, CPA IMPLEMENTATION, AND [...] (U) This is an action request - see para. 8. 2. (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with ConGen Juba on March 19, GOSS Minister for Presidential Affairs Luka Biong Deng indicated that the SPLM would boycott any snap national Presidential elections intended to legitimize GNU President Omar al Bashir [...] | 2009-03-22 11:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SOCI ASEC KDEM UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM405 | COMBATTING THE MENINGITIS OUTBREAK IN DARFUR [...] (U) SUMMARY. As international donors and humanitarian agencies continue to seek ways to address the humanitarian gaps created by the Sudanese government's March 4 and 5 expulsions of 13 international organizations and dissolution of three Sudanese organizations, cases of meningitis are increasi [...] | 2009-03-23 06:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM408 | PRESIDENT BASHIR RETHINKING ATTENDANCE AT ARAB LEAGUE [...] (SBU) The GoS appears to be setting the stage for President Bashir to gracefully withdraw his participation at the March 30 Arab League Summit in Doha. Bashir earlier had stated publically that he planned to attend. However, pro-government press recently has been filled with commentary, urgi [...] | 2009-03-23 08:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC AU UNSC SU QA |
09KHARTOUM409 | UN AND DONORS MEET ON THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN SUDAN [...] (U) BEGIN SUMMARY. On March 20, in a specially called meeting, UN humanitarian officials briefed donor principals on the current situation and UN efforts to facilitate addressing the humanitarian gaps and current crisis fueled by the Government of National Unity's (GNU) expulsion of 13 interna [...] | 2009-03-23 09:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM410 | SUSPICIOUS SOUTH DARFUR IDPS CONVINCED OF GOS PLAN TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The most contentious political issue in South Darfur remains the presence of 90,000 plus residents in Kalma camp. Suspicious tribal leaders and IDP representatives speaking with poloff in Nyala expressed fear that the GOS intends to evacuate the camp to force its residents back [...] | 2009-03-23 09:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM414 | UN DUCKS TOUGH QUESTIONS ON SUDANESE ELECTIONS [...] Summary: During the first Electoral Assistance Group (EAG) meeting after the ICC's March 4 arrest warrant for Government of National Unity (GNU) President Al-Bashir, the UN spoke at length about meager and unimpressive electoral preparations made by the National Electoral Commission (NEC),but [...] | 2009-03-23 13:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID KDEM SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM418 | KALMA IDP LEADERS CONTINUE TO REFUSE HUMANTIARIAN SERVICES [...] (SBU) Summary: Humanitarian efforts in volatile Kalma IDP camp have ground to a halt as IDP leaders there have responded to the INGO expulsions by rebuffing UN efforts since March 21 to resume services. Unrealistically demanding the return of the expelled NGOs, along with refusing any Sudanese [...] | 2009-03-24 14:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID SOCI ASEC KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM420 | SUDANESE CIVIL SOCIETY DETERMINED TO STAY IN THE FIGHT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Key independent civil society actors, who have been implementing USG-supported civic and voter education and human rights activities in northern Sudan, affirmed that they are committed to stay in the fight to maintain space for civic participation. They intend to do so despite [...] | 2009-03-25 13:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM421 | THE UN UNVEILS THE RESULTS OF THE JOINT UN-GNU ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY. On March 24, the UN released a statement on the joint UN-Government of National Unity (GNU) assessment of humanitarian needs in Darfur following the early March expulsions of non-governmental organizations (NGO). According to the UN, the expulsions resulted in significant [...] | 2009-03-25 14:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PREL PREF KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM422 | WILY LAM AKOL CLAIMS SPLM WILL STAND WITH BASHIR [...] (C) Summary. Dr. Lam Akol, well-known Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement (SPLM) turncoat and former Government of National Unity (GNU) Minister of Foreign Affairs, told CDA that he would pass a message to the National Congress Party (NCP) that if it wants to engage with the new U.S. administr [...] | 2009-03-25 15:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO SOCI KDEM ASEC AU SU |
09KHARTOUM423 | POLIO CRISIS IN EAST AFRICA [...] Summary: For the past nine months, Southern Sudan has experienced a large poliomyelitis (polio) outbreak with a total of 40 cases (24 in 2008 and 16 in 2009). Despite a series of national immunization days (NID) in 2008 and 2009, the outbreak continues to spread, now including previously polio [...] | 2009-03-25 16:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SOCI TBIO PGOV PREL ASEC SU |
09KHARTOUM424 | GOS CAUTIOUSLY HESITANT ABOUT POSSIBLE SE GRATION [...] (C) On March 25, a vaguely positive, but guarded Government of National Unity (GNU) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary (U/S) Mutriff Siddiq told CDA Fernandez that he would have to consult with Foreign Minister Deng Alor and GNU President Al-Bashir upon their return from Cairo about t [...] | 2009-03-25 16:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO SOCI AU SU |
09KHARTOUM425 | SOUTH DARFUR SECURITY UPDATE, MARCH 2009 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sudanese authorities have arrested three men in connection with the March 17 ambush and killing of one Nigerian UNAMID peacekeeper in Nyala. A spate of daylight attacks within the city has alarmed UN security, while at the same time it copes with reduced visibility in the resti [...] | 2009-03-26 05:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM427 | ANGRY NCP "MODERATE" SIGNALS AN UNBENDING REGIME: [...] (C) Summary: In a contentious meeting with CDA on March 26, the usually moderate NCP former General Yahia Babiker dismissed US policy in Sudan as "not wise" and accused the U.S. of giving his country nothing substantive in exchange for the NCP's years of bilateral cooperation on the CPA and an [...] | 2009-03-26 13:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM428 | ADDING INSULT TO INJURY - GNU DEMANDS EXORBITANT SEVERANCE [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY. On March 22, the Government of National Unity (GNU) Ministry of Labor issued a "ministerial decree," arguing that expelled non-governmental organizations (NGOs) had infringed on laws and regulations regarding the humanitarian work in Sudan (an accusation used by the Humani [...] | 2009-03-26 15:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PREL PREF KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM429 | SEARCHING FOR "TRACK THREE" ON DARFUR HUMANITARIAN [...] (SBU) This is an action message, please see para 7. 2. (SBU) Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General (DSRSG) for Humanitarian Affairs Ameerah Haq met with a core group of major donors on late on March 25 to inaugurate a weekly ad hoc coordination mechanism in Khartoum between [...] | 2009-03-26 15:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PREL PREF KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM431 | "SUDAN IS DIFFERENT NOW AND YOUR POLICY MUST BE [...] (C) Presidential Advisor Ali Abdallah Masar, the most senior Darfuri Arab in the Sudanese regime, met CDA Fernandez on March 26 to suggest that, after the March 4 ICC arrest warrant for President Bashir "Sudan is a different place now" requiring a different American approach to the Khartoum re [...] | 2009-03-27 10:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI AU UN SU |
09KHARTOUM432 | KHARTOUM EAC CONVENES ON MARCH 27 [...] (SBU) CDA Fernandez convened a core Emergency Action Committee (EAC) meeting on Friday, March 27, to review the current security situation in Sudan after international and local media reported that the Israeli Air Force conducted airstrikes in January and February against suspected arms smugglers [...] | 2009-03-27 13:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AEMR AMGT PGOV PTER SU |
09KHARTOUM433 | ESTABLISHMENT OF SUDANESE-AMERICAN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION IN [...] SUMMARY: For a number of years, Sudanese alumni of USG grant programs tried, but never quite succeeded, in forming an alumni association. This has now changed. In late February, the semi-governmental Council for International People's Friendship approved the 27-member Sudanese American Alumni [...] | 2009-03-29 05:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KPAO SCUL SOCI OEXC KMDR KPKO ASEC SU |
09KHARTOUM435 | SUPPORT FOR BASHIR "WIDE BUT THIN" SAYS MINNAWI [...] (C) Senior Assistant to the President and Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) leader Minni Minnawi told CDA Fernandez on March 28 that, based on his discussion with senior regime officials, support for President Bashir within the ruling elite is "wide but thin." Minni said that, for the moment, Ba [...] | 2009-03-29 12:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM436 | THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN NORTH DARFUR [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY. On March 23-24, U.S. Embassy and USAID staff met with staff from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in El Fasher and attended the state-level Interagency Management Group (IAMG) meeting in North Darfur chaired by OCHA to discuss the current s [...] | 2009-03-30 08:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PREL PREF KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM439 | ABYEI ADMINISTRATOR TRAVELS TO KHARTOUM TO RESOLVE FUNDING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Abyei Administrator Arop Mayok is in Khartoum to try to secure the release of GNU revenues for his Administration. The annual Misseriya cattle migration has gone fairly smoothly, but both the Dinka and Misseriya continue to be worried about security as they remain respectively [...] | 2009-03-30 14:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID SOCI ASEC KPKO UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM44 | RESPONSIBILITIES FOR ALL: FOR THE USG TO DECIDE [...] (C) NCP strategist Sayed Al-Khateeb told CDA Fernandez that the NCP regime will not act irrationally when an ICC indictment of GoS President Omar Al-Bashir is handed down, but warned, just like many other NCP officials have, that the GoS may not be able to fully control the actions of non-gove [...] | 2009-01-14 15:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL SOCI KDEM SU |
09KHARTOUM440 | GOVERNMENT OF SUDAN TURNS UP THE HEAT ON INGO SEVERANCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As expelled non-governmental organizations (NGOs) continue to close-out Sudan programs, the Government of National Unity (GNU) continues to harass and intimidate the already traumatized humanitarian staff remaining in Khartoum. According to information from several meetings bet [...] | 2009-03-30 14:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PREL PREF KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM446 | UNMIS FEARS FOR THE STABILITY OF SOUTH SUDAN [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting on March 27 with ConGen Juba, Lise Grande, UNMIS Deputy Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, expressed the view that the recent tribal fighting in Pibor County in Jonglei State and the "Wounded Soldiers" protests over back pay that shut down major trade corridors t [...] | 2009-03-31 12:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID EFIN SOCI ASEC KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM447 | UNAMID REPORTS 2008 DARFUR CASUALTY FIGURES, PROPOSES NEXT [...] (SBU) There were 1,540 total violence-related deaths in Darfur in 2008, including those related to banditry, and 640 of these deaths were the result of Arab-Arab inter-tribal violence, according to UNAMID polchief Abdul Mohammed. Mohammed told polchief on March 31 that UNAMID will soon release [...] | 2009-03-31 12:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM449 | UNAMID UPDATE, MARCH 31 [...] (SBU) Summary: UNAMID is preparing for Nepalese contingent-owned equipment (COE) to arrive in Sudan. The COE will get here before the contingent of Nepalese troops, which UNAMID is pushing to be on the ground by July 2009. In April and May, an Egyptian battalion will deploy to two camps in t [...] | 2009-03-31 13:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM451 | USAID EXPLORES NEW APPROACH FOR GOS-USAID COOPERATION IN [...] (U) SUMMARY. On March 26, USAID Mission Director and USAID Legal Advisor met with Government of National Unity (GNU) Undersecretary of the Ministry of International Cooperation (MIC),Elfatih Ali Siddig to resume dialogue between USAID and MIC regarding programs on which the two agencies can c [...] | 2009-04-01 08:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ASEC PGOV PREL PREF KDEM KPKO SOCI AU UNSC |
09KHARTOUM458 | SUDAN SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE [...] (U) Keyed to ref a are the Security Environment Profile Questionnaire (SEPQ) responses below for northern Sudan, including Darfur. The SEPQ for ConGen Juba's Consular district will be sent via septel. ------------------ POLITICAL VIOLENCE ------------------ 2. (SBU) Demonstrations [...] | 2009-04-01 15:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PTER AMGT SU |
09KHARTOUM459 | SOUTHERN SUDAN SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE [...] (U) Keyed to ref a are the Security Environment Profile Questionnaire (SEPQ) responses below for Southern Sudan. ------------------ POLITICAL VIOLENCE ------------------ 2. (SBU) Demonstrations A. Are there ethnic or religious communities in country that are capable of carrying out [...] | 2009-04-01 15:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PTER AMGT SU |
09KHARTOUM466 | UN AND DONORS MEET TO DISCUSS TRACK 3 AND NEW ROLES [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY. On April 1, USAID Mission Director attended, on behalf of the CDA, a small donors- group meeting with Deputy Special Representative to the Secretary-General (DSRSG) Ameerah Haq, to discuss UN thinking and planning on Track 3, as well as steps that donors could take to sup [...] | 2009-04-02 15:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM468 | SE GRATION VISIT BEGINS: MFA'S SIDDIQ SAYS "WE ARE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The President's Special Envoy to Sudan General Scott Gration began his visit to Sudan with a meeting the morning of April 2 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with Undersecretary (and NCP insider) Mutriff Siddiq. Siddiq expressed the Government of Sudan's willingness to improve U [...] | 2009-04-02 17:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM469 | SE GRATION VISIT: NISS CHIEF GHOSH LOSES HIS COOL [...] (S) SUMMARY: President's Special Envoy Gration met with National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) Director Salah Ghosh on the morning of April 2. Ghosh rejected the possibility of the 13 expelled international NGOs being allowed back into Sudan but when pressed accepted a formula to m [...] | 2009-04-02 17:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PREL PGOV KDEM KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM47 | HOW TO ADVANCE SECURITY MECHANISMS IN DARFUR, IN [...] (C) Summary: In the absence of an effective ceasefire agreement and with UN/DPKO reportedly blocking UNAMID's ceasefire monitoring plan, our best hope may be to push forward with the US Darfur Monitoring Plan, which can be used to more aggressively investigate security incidents and encourage [...] | 2009-01-15 12:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM470 | SE GRATION'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL ASSISTANT [...] (C) Summary: In an April 2 meeting with Presidential Special Envoy to Sudan Gration, a friendly but assertive Presidential Assistant Nafie Ali Nafie expressed appreciation for USG concerns about CPA implementation and the conflict in Darfur, but stated that bilateral relations would not improve [...] | 2009-04-03 10:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM473 | REQUEST FOR TERMINATION OF AUTHORIZED DEPARTURE STATUS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Per reftel A (Para 1 B,) I have re-evaluated the conditions at Embassy Khartoum that led on March 9 to your approval of Authorized Departure (AD) status. Based on this re-evaluation, I ask that Khartoum now be taken off of AD on April 9, at the end of the 30 day AD period. I bel [...] | 2009-04-04 13:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT AEMR CASC KFLO ASEC SU |
09KHARTOUM474 | Mbeki Meets with Khartoum Dip Corps to Solicit Suggestions [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a Khartoum meeting on April 2, Former President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki surprised an unprepared Khartoum diplomatic corps by soliciting suggestions from them on how the African Union might best help resolve the Darfur crisis. The diplomats thought Mbeki had called the ga [...] | 2009-04-05 06:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM475 | SE GRATION'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the President's Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration, NCP-insider and Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salahadeen lauded the SE's mission to improve ties with Sudan while seeking improvements in the situation in Darfur and CPA implementation. He was less supportiv [...] | 2009-04-05 08:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KPKO SOCI ASEC AU INSC SU |
09KHARTOUM476 | ANOTHER MURKY HOSTAGE "CRISIS" UNFOLDS IN DARFUR [...] (SBU) On the evening of April 4, 2009, 10-20 Arabic- speaking men in pick-up trucks invaded the Southwest Darfur compound of a small French NGO, Aide Medicale Internationale (AMI),and abducted two female AMI employees: a French nurse and a Canadian Administrator, and two Sudanese employees who [...] | 2009-04-06 12:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL CASC KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM477 | SE GRATION MEETS WITH THE UN HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR IN [...] (SBU) On April 2 the President's Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration met Deputy Special Representative for the Secretary General, Ameerah Haq and other UN staff in Khartoum to discuss current humanitarian gaps and UN efforts to mitigate the current crisis here. The latter stems from the Gov [...] | 2009-04-07 05:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM478 | SHURA COUNCIL REITERATES PLEDGE TO UNITE THE FUR, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: In an April 3 meeting with SE Gration, Shura ('Consultative') Council representatives from the Fur, Tunjur and Birgid tribes expressed frustration with the refusal of leader-in-exile Abdul Wahid to participate in peace talks. They posited that the Fur could instead be represented [...] | 2009-04-07 06:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM479 | KHARTOUM EAC CONVENED TO DISCUSS REVERSE TRIPWIRES AND AD [...] (SBU) DCM Mark Asquino convened an Emergency Action Committee (EAC) meeting on Sunday, April 5, to review reverse tripwires for the Mission's (reftel B) lifting of authorized departure (AD) status. The DCM, POL, MGT, DLO, RAO, USAID, RMO, PAO, CONS, and RSO were in attendance. 2. (SBU) Th [...] | 2009-04-07 09:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AEMR CASC PGOV PREL PTER SU |
09KHARTOUM48 | JEM ATTACKS SLM/MM AND BURNS MUHAJARIYA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior Presidential Assistant Minni Minnawi told CDA Fernandez that the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) attacked his Sudan Liberation Movement forces stationed in Muhajariyya and completely burned the village on January 15. Minnawi said that the fighting began in the early [...] | 2009-01-15 12:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM481 | RECLUSIVE SLA/AW COMMANDERS WELCOME SE GRATION IN JEBEL [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 5 rebel commanders from SLA/Abdul Wahid and an enthusiastic local population warmly welcomed Presidential Special Envoy Scott Gration and his delegation to Darfur's most inaccessible area, the mountainous rebel enclave of Jebel Marra. Praising the US and hoping for stron [...] | 2009-04-08 06:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM482 | UNAMID PEACEKEEPERS NEED A PEACE TO KEEP, JSR ADADA TELLS [...] (SBU) Summary: UNAMID, the joint AU/UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur, "needs a peace to keep," Joint Special Representative (JSR) Adada told Presidential Special Envoy Gration in a meeting at UNAMID Headquarters in El Fasher, North Darfur on April 4. UNAMID has now deployed 67 percent of its [...] | 2009-04-08 06:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM484 | BASSOLE SEEKS ASSISTANCE IN KEEPING THE DOHA TALKS ALIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: UN/AU Joint Chief Mediator Djibril Bassole noted that the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) refused further dialogue with the Government of Sudan (GoS) because of the INGO expulsion, and proposed that JEM might participate in the Doha talks if the opportunity to discuss humanit [...] | 2009-04-09 07:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM485 | SE GRATION VISIT: NCP PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR SHOWS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The President's Special Envoy to Sudan, General Gration, met with GOS Presidential Advisor Mustafa Osman Ismail at National Congress Party Headquarters on April 8, 2009. Proclaiming that Sudan is willing to make a deal, Ismail hinted that the NCP would likely offer SE Gration som [...] | 2009-04-09 10:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM486 | CORRECTED COPY: UNAMID PEACEKEEPERS NEED A PEACE TO KEEP, [...] (SBU) Summary: UNAMID, the joint AU/UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur, "needs a peace to keep," Joint Special Representative (JSR) Adada told Presidential Special Envoy Gration in a meeting at UNAMID Headquarters in El Fasher, North Darfur on April 4. UNAMID has now deployed 67 percent of its [...] | 2009-04-09 10:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM487 | CORRECTED COPY: RECLUSIVE SLA/AW COMMANDERS WELCOME SE [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 5 rebel commanders from SLA/Abdul Wahid and an enthusiastic local population warmly welcomed Presidential Special Envoy Scott Gration and his delegation to Darfur's most inaccessible area, the mountainous rebel enclave of Jebel Marra. Praising the US and hoping for stron [...] | 2009-04-09 10:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM489 | SLA/AW REBEL COMMANDERS' LETTER TO POTUS [...] (SBU) During the visit of Special Envoy Gration to Deribat, Jebel Marra on April 5, 2009 (reftel),senior commanders in the Sudan Liberation Movement/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) submitted a hand-written letter in Arabic to President Barack Obama. 2. (SBU) The translated text of the letter is as fol [...] | 2009-04-09 11:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM49 | TURABI ARRESTED AFTER CALLING BASHIR "CULPABLE" FOR DARFUR [...] (SBU) Summary: Dr. Hassan Abdalla al-Turabi, a founding father of the current Sudanese regime but now the leader of the opposition Peoples' Congress Party (PCP) and bitter opponent to the regime, was arrested at his home on the evening of January 14, following remarks calling on Sudanese Presid [...] | 2009-01-15 12:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM497 | SUDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR U.S. OFFICE OF MILITARY [...] (SBU) Embassy Khartoum welcomes the visit of the U.S. Office of Military Commissions Defense Counsel to Sudan for approximately eight days, beginning on April 22, 2009. Post understands the purpose of the trip is to investigate the possibilities and requirements for the successful repatriation [...] | 2009-04-09 15:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER AMGT PGOV OTRA SU |
09KHARTOUM500 | SE GRATION'S VISIT TO ABYEI: INSECURITY, BUDGET, AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In Abyei and Agok on April 7, SE Gration heard a consistent message from residents and officials, who said that the failure to fully implement the CPA and the Abyei Roadmap left the IDPs in Agok fearful of returning home and dependent on international NGOs for all basic services [...] | 2009-04-13 08:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM501 | SE GRATION MEETING WITH UN RC DAVID GRESSLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The UN Resident Coordinator for Southern Sudan told U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration that with 20 months left until the 2011 Referendum, the international community, and particularly partners to the CPA, must re-focus their energies on achieving implementation of only t [...] | 2009-04-13 08:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR MCAPS EFIN EAID ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM506 | SE GRATION MEETS WITH INGOs WORKING IN THE THREE AREAS [...] (SBU) On the morning of April 6 in Juba, Presidential Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration met with seven INGOs working in the "Three Areas" on the border between northern and northern Sudan. PADCO, Mercy Corps, NDI, IRI, Save the Children and Goal all complained of constant bureaucratic obstac [...] | 2009-04-14 05:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO EAID SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM507 | SE GRATION IN EL FASHER: A PESSIMISTIC MINNAWI, A MYOPIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Presidential Special Envoy Scott Gration and delegation traveled to El Fasher on Saturday, April 4, meeting with the Wali of North Darfur, who strongly denied serious humanitarian gaps but still desires bilateral cooperation, telling the delegation "We put our hand in your hand t [...] | 2009-04-14 05:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM508 | SE GRATION MEETING WITH SPLA LEADERSHIP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Minister for SPLA Affairs Nhial Deng Nhial briefed SE Gration on the status of SPLA transformation and the importance of this process for the Southern military to continue to be a credible, and respected, guarantor of the CPA. He underscored SPLM and SPLA willingness to assist [...] | 2009-04-14 05:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR MCAP KPKO UNSC AU SU |
09KHARTOUM51 | JEM CLASHES WITH SLM/MM IN MUHAJIRIYA, BUT SCALE OF [...] (SBU) Multiple rebel and UN sources confirmed the fighting between JEM and SLM/Minnawi forces in the Minnawi stronghold of Muhajiriya the morning of January 15 (Ref A),but details remain scarce and the scope of the fighting remains in question. According to UN sources, clashes apparently star [...] | 2009-01-15 14:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM510 | SAF GENERALS USE FIRST MEETING WITH US ENVOY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 8, Presidential Special Envoy Scott Gration held the first high-level USG meeting in recent years with high-ranking SAF officials. The SAF noted its redeployment of forces from the South and integration of Other Armed Groups (OAGs) (as confirmed by UNMIS) while lambastin [...] | 2009-04-14 09:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM511 | SE GRATION TELLS FM ALOR URGENT ACTION NEEDED IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Foreign Minister Deng Alor, the President's Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration said that it is urgent to address security, humanitarian, and political problems in Darfur. Gration also promised that the U.S. will offer its full support to good-faith initiatives [...] | 2009-04-14 09:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF EAID ASEC KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM513 | YESTERDAY'S CPA IN TODAY'S SUDAN [...] (C) Summary: Three months after the four-year anniversary of the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) ending the second civil war between northern and southern Sudan, all signs indicate a worsening of prospects for implementation of the agreement over the final two years of the i [...] | 2009-04-14 10:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN KDEM KPKO SOCI ASEC AU |
09KHARTOUM514 | SE GRATION'S MEETING WITH MISSERIYA ARAB LEADERS: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In Khartoum on April 10, the President's Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration heard Misseriya grievances related to their lack of representation in CPA negotiations and the June 2008 Abyei road map and the likely Misseriya rejection of the results of the ongoing arbitration over [...] | 2009-04-14 10:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM523 | A GLIMMER OF HOPE FOR THE SPLM NUBA AS ABDEL AZIZ AL-HELOU [...] (U) On April 14, Nuba mountains native and respected SPLM national figure Abdel Aziz Al-Helou was sworn in by the President of the Government of National Unity (GNU) as the Deputy Governor for Southern Kordofan State (SKS). Abdel Aziz's appointment to this position comes after the SPLM Nuba ex [...] | 2009-04-15 14:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM524 | EXECUTION OF FORMER EMBASSY GUARD AND MEMBER OF THE FUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 13, 2009, former Embassy guard Adam Ibrahim El-Haj was executed by hanging for conspiracy to commit murder along with eight other members of Khartoum's Fur community. The accused were charged with the September 6 2006 beheading of prominent Sudanese journalist Mohamed Ta [...] | 2009-04-15 14:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC APER AMGT PGOV PREL AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM525 | CHADIAN REBELS EXPECT TO BE ATTACKED BY CHADIAN [...] (C) The Chadian army will soon attack Chadian rebels at their positions inside the borders of Chad, RFC Chadian rebel commander (and close associate of UFR President Timane Erdimi) Mahamat Hanno told polchief April 15 in Khartoum. Hanno claimed that the Chadian rebels now have fully unified bo [...] | 2009-04-16 05:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM532 | KHARTOUM AUTHORIZED DEPARTURE AFTER ACTION REOPRT AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: When Authorized Departure was announced on March 10, 2009,the post had previously prepared for personnel and logistical issues associated with a large-scale evacuation of Mission personnel. However, the Embassy had less than one day's notice that the Department had decided to [...] | 2009-04-21 03:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ASEC AEMR KFLO CASC SU |
09KHARTOUM533 | SE GRATION NEGOTIATES WITH GOS TO URGENTLY FILL [...] (C) Summary: During his first visit to Sudan, the President,s Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration held intensive discussions with senior NCP officials April 8-10 in Khartoum in order to resolve the NGO expulsion crisis and ensure that life-saving humanitarian assistance reaches beneficiaries [...] | 2009-04-21 05:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM534 | SE GRATION'S MEETING WITH GNU VICE PRESIDENT ALI [...] (C) Summary: Hours before boarding a plane back to the US, the President's Special Envoy to Sudan, General Gration, met with Government of National Unity (GNU) Vice President Ali Osman Taha in the VP,s home on April 10. SE Gration shared his impressions of Sudan and the challenges it faces b [...] | 2009-04-21 05:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL PGOV SOCI KPKO AU UN SU |
09KHARTOUM535 | USG-GNU SIGNED IMPLEMENTATION PROTOCOL FOR IFES ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On April 19 CDA Fernandez, Minister of International Cooperation Fidail, Chairman of the National Election Commission Alier, USAID Director Hammink and IFES Country Director Leyraud signed an Implementation Protocol for the Sudan Election Administration Support Program, thus prov [...] | 2009-04-21 06:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM536 | SENATOR KERRY MEETS WITH UNMIS SRSG QAZI AND AEC CHAIRMAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) Chairman and former UK Ambassador to Egypt Sir Derek Plumbly and UNMIS Special Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG) Ashraf Qazi told Senator John Kerry that the USG should continue its course of positive engagement and its lev [...] | 2009-04-21 07:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI KPKO ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM537 | SENATOR KERRY MEETS WITH NGOs [...] (SBU) During an April 16 meeting with Senator John Kerry, representatives from six major non-governmental organizations (NGOs) conveyed concern regarding continuing gaps in assistance following the NGO expulsions, shrinking humanitarian space, and bureaucratic impediments to program implementa [...] | 2009-04-21 08:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM538 | SENATOR KERRY'S MEETING WITH SUDANESE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: CODEL Kerry met with Government of Sudan Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salaheddin at the Ministry of Federal Rule on April 16, 2009. Congressman Kerry emphasized that the U.S. Congress and the American people need to see an immediate return to pre-ICC-arrest-warrant announcement [...] | 2009-04-21 11:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL PGOV SOCI KPKO AU UN SU |
09KHARTOUM539 | CODEL KERRY'S MEETING WITH SUDANESE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 16, Senator Kerry told Presidential Advisor Nafie that the change of administrations in Washington opens an opportunity for the United States and Sudan to begin a new dialogue, and he identified the provision of humanitarian assistance following the expulsion of 13 NGOs [...] | 2009-04-21 11:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF EAID SOCI KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM54 | KHARTOUM REGIME PLANS FOR ICC COUNTER-STRATEGY [...] (C) Sudanese FM Deng Alor briefed CDA Fernandez on January 16 on the latest thinking within the National Congress Party (NCP) of President Al-Bashir on how the NCP hopes to weather and counteract the destabilizing effects of an ICC arrest warrant of President Al-Bashir. Alor had met with VP Ali [...] | 2009-01-16 12:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM542 | MEDIA REACTION: CODEL KERRY'S VISIT TO SUDAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: The state-influenced Khartoum press corps reacted very positively to the visit of Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, echoing sentiments for better U.S.-Sudanese relations seen after the visit of U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan General Scott Gration [...] | 2009-04-22 05:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM544 | UNAMID UPDATE APRIL 21 [...] (SBU) The night of April 19, a fire broke out at UNAMID Headquarters in El Fasher causing millions of dollars worth of damage, UNAMID officials told poloff on April 21. UNAMID Public Information Chief Kemal Saiki told poloff that at approximately 22:30 on April 10, a fire was detected at the UN [...] | 2009-04-22 09:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM546 | CDA'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR SALAHEDDIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential Advisor Ghazi Salaheddin welcomed the proposed return visit by Special Envoy Gration and offered to try to reduce tensions with NGOs in Sudan by meeting with them and assuring them of the GoS, readiness to work with them, as long as they do not cross the regime,s red [...] | 2009-04-22 10:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID SOCI KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM548 | CODEL KERRY'S MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER DENG [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 16, FM Deng Alor welcomed Senator Kerry,s assurances that the United States is anxious to reengage with Sudan and he urged that the U.S. take the lead in seeking a solution to the Darfur conflict. They agreed that a fully-implemented CPA could serve as the foundation fo [...] | 2009-04-22 10:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID SOCI KPKO KDEM AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM549 | SENATOR KERRY'S MEETINGS WITH VICE PRESIDENT TAHA [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Taha received Senator Kerry at his home in Khartoum April 16 and confirmed the NCP's commitment to a tripartite mechanism to implement the CPA as discussed during the SE Gration visit. However, Taha seemed to backpedal somewhat (noting the existence of other mechan [...] | 2009-04-22 13:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM553 | SENATOR KERRY VISIT TO DARFUR, APRIL 17, 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 17, Senator John F. Kerry and delegation traveled to El Fasher, Darfur for several hours amid much fanfare from local officials. Following an overly ceremonious greeting with dancers representing many of Darfur's tribes, North Darfur's Wali (Governor) Osman Kibir played [...] | 2009-04-23 06:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM554 | UN REPORTS IMPROVEMENT IN DARFUR HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) In a private meeting April 23, UNMIS D/SRSG for Humanitarian Affairs Ameerah Haq told key donors that the Government of Sudan has taken several key steps to improve humanitarian access in Darfur. She noted that the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs issued a decree April 16 formalizing new [...] | 2009-04-23 09:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM555 | UNMIS PRINCIPAL DONOR MEETING - DARFUR HUMANITARIAN CRISIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 22, 2009, CDA Fernandez and Embassy staff attended the Donor Principals Meeting at UNMIS to review the humanitarian situation in Darfur following the expulsion of INGOs in March. According to the UN's assessment, gaps in humanitarian service delivery continue but are na [...] | 2009-04-23 13:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM557 | MARCH 23 SESSION OF GRANVILLE/ABBAS MURDER TRIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 23, 2009, five U.S. Embassy Foreign Service National (FSN) employees from the Regional Security Office, Political/Economic and Public Affairs sections attended the trial of five Sudanese men accused in the January 1, 2008 murders of USAID Officer John Granville and FSN [...] | 2009-04-24 09:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PGOV SU |
09KHARTOUM562 | USG SHOULD EMPHASIZE IMPORTANCE OF CONSENSUS ON SOUTHERN [...] (SBU) Summary. According to Government of National Unity (GNU) State Minister of Justice Wek Mamer Kuol, there has been minimal progress on legislative reform over the past several months, particularly with regard to the National Security Law and the Southern Sudan Referendum Bill. The sticki [...] | 2009-04-26 10:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM564 | JONGLEI VIOLENCE POLARIZES, PARALYZES JUBA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While renewed violence in Jonglei state has pushed Juba's diplomatic and donor community into hyper-drive, the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) continues to take a more measured approach to containing tensions within the South's largest state. This difference in approach has [...] | 2009-04-27 12:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM565 | SPLM POLITBURO FOCUSED ON ECONOMIC CRISIS; HOPES THAT [...] (SBU) Summary: Government of National Unity (GNU) Presidential Advisor Dr. Mansour Khalid (a prominent SPLM northerner) said that the southern Sudan economic crisis was the hot topic at the SPLM's April Political Bureau (PB) Meeting. He noted that an SPLM team is working with the World Bank o [...] | 2009-04-27 19:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI ECON ASEC AU KPKO UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM571 | MALIK AGAR PRESSES HARD FOR TRUTH TO BE TOLD IN THREE AREAS [...] (SBU) Summary. Governor of Blue Nile State Malik Agar is fighting for the truth to be reflected in an INGO expulsion report for the Three Areas. According to Malik, the Three Areas joint UN-GOS assessment after the National Congress Party's (NCP's) INGO expulsions on March 4 revealed that ING [...] | 2009-04-28 11:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI KPKO ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM572 | SUDAN FORMALLY COMPLAINS OF CHADIAN-SUPPORTED [...] (C) The Sudanese Foreign Ministry summoned CDA Fernandez on the afternoon of April 28 to present him with a written complaint about a supposed crossing into Sudan of a considerable number of rebel forces by the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) openly supported by Chadian military elements. [...] | 2009-04-28 13:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KPKO PGOV PREL UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM573 | ABDEL AZIZ HELOU ON SPLM DARFUR INITIATIVE AND NCP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: High-ranking SPLM official Abdel Helou Helou told CDA Fernandez that the SPLM is seeking to unite the Darfur rebel factions, because as long as they remain weak and divided, the NCP will be able to avoid serious peace negotiations. He named security as his chief priority in his [...] | 2009-04-28 13:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM577 | SUDANESE GOVERNMENT TAKES STEPS TO IMPLEMENT THE U.S. [...] (SBU) Following Special Envoy Gration's negotiations with the National Congress Party (NCP) in early April, the Sudanese government appears to have taken several positive steps toward improving the environment for humanitarian operations in Sudan. In an April 16 ministerial decree, the govern [...] | 2009-04-29 11:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM578 | UNMIS ELECTIONS CHIEF: FEBRUARY 2010 ELECTIONS "VERY [...] (SBU) Summary. Sudan's National Electoral Commission (NEC) has decided that elections will take place in February 2010 and has issued a planning calendar to reflect preparation that must occur in order to achieve that date. UNMIS Electoral Affairs Chief Ray Kennedy said that meeting that date [...] | 2009-04-29 13:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM579 | APRIL 12 SESSION OF GRANVILLE/ABBAS MURDER TRIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 12, 2009, five U.S. Embassy Foreign Service National (FSN) employees from the Regional Security Office, Political/Economic and Public Affairs sections attended the trial of five Sudanese men accused in the January 1, 2008 murders of USAID Officer John Granville and FSN [...] | 2009-04-30 08:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PGOV SU |
09KHARTOUM580 | APRIL 14 SESSION OF GRANVILLE/ABBAS MURDER TRIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 14, 2009, five U.S. Embassy Foreign Service National (FSN) employees from the Regional Security Office, Political/Economic and Public Affairs sections attended the trial of five Sudanese men accused in the January 1, 2008 murders of USAID Officer John Granville and FSN [...] | 2009-04-30 09:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PGOV SU |
09KHARTOUM581 | SOUTHERN SUDAN - FLOOD MITIGATION ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) From April 20 to 26, a four-person USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster (USAID/OFDA) flood mitigation assessment team traveled to Juba, the capital of Southern Sudan, and Aweil and Malualkon towns in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State. The team met with Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) o [...] | 2009-04-30 13:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM583 | JEM AND SLA/U ALLEGEDLY SKIRMISH AS JEM OVERHAULS ITS [...] (SBU) Summary: Amid several high-profile defections from SLA/U to JEM, a minor skirmish in North Darfur earlier this week between rival SLA/Unity commanders has not yet spread to direct conflict between JEM and SLA/U, contrary to some early reports. JEM's political wing evolved further this we [...] | 2009-04-30 13:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM587 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE ISSUES FOR SUDAN [...] The Embassy recently eceived a country clearance request from a USAID institutional contractor whose contract stipulated that the person would be provided USG lodging, transportation, security, and other Mission services. As such, the contractor would be under COM authority and require a count [...] | 2009-05-04 04:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ASEC AMGT EAID SU |
09KHARTOUM589 | SUDANESE GOVERNMENT BREAKS FROM HOSTILE STANCE TOWARDS NGOS [...] (SBU) On April 30, Sudanese Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salahudin convened a rare meeting between international and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and senior Government of National Unity (GNU) officials to raise mutual concerns and identify ways to strengthen coordination be [...] | 2009-05-04 07:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM59 | DUP CHAIRMAN MIRGHANI URGES STRONGER TIES, [...] (C) Summary: In a January 19 meeting with CDA Fernandez, DUP Chairman Mohamed Mirghani urged direct USG financial support for Sudanese Northern opposition parties, including his party so it could compete in national elections on a level playing field with the NCP. He also requested that USG li [...] | 2009-01-20 08:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM591 | CHADIAN REBELS STILL FEAR ARMY OFFENSIVE, PLEDGE NOT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: In a May 4 meeting in Khartoum, RFC Chadian Rebel Commander (and close associate of UFR President Timane Erdimi) Mahamat Hanno claimed that the Chadian Army remains poised to attack the Chadian rebels along the nebulous border region. Hanno backtracked on earlier assertions that [...] | 2009-05-05 14:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM592 | UNCERTAINTY SURROUNDS CENSUS ROLL-OUT, FRUSTRATION [...] (C) Summary. Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) Finance Minister Kuol Mawien, a member of the Population Census Council (PCC) and a key GoSS advisor on the census, counseled GoSS President and Government of National Unity (GNU) First Vice President Salva Kiir to completely reject the 2008 ce [...] | 2009-05-05 14:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC PREL KPKO SOCI KDEM AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM593 | GOS CONTINUES TO PUSH FORWARD ON NGO FRAMEWORK [...] (SBU) On May 4, USAID field staff met with Ahmed Adam, the Director of the Government of National Unity (GNU) Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) NGO Section, to discuss progress on the early April framework achieved by U.S. Special Envoy Gration. According to Adam, the government has taken add [...] | 2009-05-05 14:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM594 | IDPS COMPLAIN OF WATER SHORTAGES, DETERIORATING HEALTH AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The effects of the March 4 expulsion of thirteen INGOs continues to be felt in Abu Shouk camp, which is facing a water shortage and poor health and sanitation conditions, camp umdas (community leaders) reported to poloff on April 28 in El Fasher. In the health and sanitation rea [...] | 2009-05-05 14:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM596 | HOSTAGES RELEASED, MANY FRENCH NGO WORKERS LEAVE DARFUR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-06 10:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL CASC KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM597 | DARFUR REBEL UPDATE, SPRING 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: Although holding no territory in Darfur, JEM continues to pick up detritus from other Darfur rebel movements. Its incursion into the SLA/Minnawi stronghold of Dar Zaghawa on May 4-5 in far north Darfur indicates that it will continue to flex its muscles as it seeks to position it [...] | 2009-05-06 14:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM599 | APRIL 22 SESSION OF GRANVILLE/ABBAS MURDER TRIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 22, 2009, five U.S. Embassy Foreign Service National (FSN) employees from the Regional Security Office, Political/Economic and Public Affairs sections attended the trial of five Sudanese men accused in the January 1, 2008 murders of USAID Officer John Granville and FSN [...] | 2009-05-07 14:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PGOV SU |
09KHARTOUM604 | HOSTAGES RELEASED, MANY FRENCH NGO WORKERS LEAVE DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After being held for 26 days in western Darfur, two Aide Medicale Internationale (AMI) aid workers (one Canadian, one French) were released by their abductors on April 29. As the French Embassy believes that its nationals and NGOs may be targeted for kidnapping, they have asked a [...] | 2009-05-10 06:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL CASC KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM605 | A/S BOSWELL VISIT TO EL FASHER, APRIL 29 [...] (SBU) Summary: The security situation in Darfur is relatively calm, but remains fluid and unpredictable, with ambushes, abductions, armed robbery and carjackings posing the most danger to Westerners according to what UN and international non-government organization (INGO) representatives told [...] | 2009-05-10 09:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM607 | CHARGE DISCUSSES ABYEI BOUNDARY ARBITRATION DECISION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. CDA Fernandez and AEC Chairman Plumbly compared reports on the oral arguments before the Permanent Court of Arbitration on the Abyei boundary dispute and discussed the outlines of a possible political agreement between the NCP and SPLM that might avert another crisis when the c [...] | 2009-05-10 14:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM609 | Confronting Challenges to Humanitarian Operations in West [...] (SBU) From April 15 to 17, USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) field officers visited El Geneina, West Darfur, for the first time since July 2008. There they discussed the impact of the early March non-governmental organization (NGO) expulsions on humanitarian prog [...] | 2009-05-10 15:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM610 | Confronting Challenges to Humanitarian Operations in West [...] (SBU) From April 15 to 17, USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) field officers visited El Geneina, West Darfur, for the first time since July 2008. There they discussed the impact of the early March non-governmental organization (NGO) expulsions on humanitarian progr [...] | 2009-05-10 15:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PREL PREF ASEC SOCI KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM611 | SPLM SG AMUM URGES THE USG NOT TO LOSE SIGHT OF [...] (C) Summary. Secretary General of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Pagan Amum emphasized the importance of critical items within the CPA being implemented in a credible way, in particular the elections and the referendum, by 2011 in order to keep peace alive in Sudan. He laid out [...] | 2009-05-11 07:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI KDEM AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM612 | MAY 5 SESSION OF GRANVILLE/ABBAS MURDER TRIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 5, 2009, five U.S. Embassy Foreign Service National (FSN) employees from the Regional Security Office, Political/Economic and Public Affairs sections attended the trial of five Sudanese men accused in the January 1, 2008 murders of USAID Officer John Granville and FSN dr [...] | 2009-05-11 09:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PGOV SU |
09KHARTOUM613 | UN AND GNU CONVENE THE FIRST EXPANDED HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) On May 7, the newly reconstituted High-Level Committee (HLC) met in Khartoum to discuss humanitarian operations and the current situation in Darfur. The Government of National Unity (GNU) Minister for Humanitarian Affairs Haroun Lual Ruun and UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian [...] | 2009-05-11 10:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM621 | DARFUR ROUNDUP: FIGHTING IN DAR ZAGHAWA; JANJAWEED RUN WILD [...] (SBU) Summary: Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) forces clashed with those of SLA/Minnawi near Umm Barro on May 9, according to rebel and UNAMID sources. Independent verification was not available, and both sides offered competing claims to victory. According to an SLA/M rep, five of his mo [...] | 2009-05-12 10:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS ASEC SOCI KPKO AU UNSC SU CD |
09KHARTOUM625 | FORMER "BUTCHER OF THE NUBA" NAMED SOUTHERN KORDOFAN [...] (SBU) In a Government of National Unity (GNU) cabinet reshuffle on May 7, President Omar Al-Bashir appointed alleged Janjaweed financier and International Criminal Court-indictee Ahmed Mohamed Haroun Governor of Southern Kordofan. Haroun, a Northern Kordofan state native and lawyer by professi [...] | 2009-05-12 13:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI ASEC KPKO KDEM AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM626 | 43rd AEC PLENARY MEETING, MAY 5 2009: VIOLENCE IN JONGLEI [...] (SBU) Summary: At the 43rd Assessment and Evaluation (AEC) Plenary Meeting on May 5, western donors came out in strong agreement that despite logistical complications and technical shortcomings of the recently-completed census, both the NCP and SPLM should quickly accept its results. Donors no [...] | 2009-05-12 13:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ASEC KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM63 | UNMIS DONOR PRINCIPALS' MEETING, JANUARY 15 [...] (SBU) Summary: UN Humanitarian officials told donor principals that they hope to focus less on relief and more on early recovery efforts in Darfur in 2009, though relief efforts will remain predominant and access and insecurity continue to be major concerns, they said. In the South, cuts in the [...] | 2009-01-20 11:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM631 | SUDAN - DONORS MEET WITH UN UNDER-SECRETARY-GERNERAL [...] (SBU) On May 10, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes met with international donors, including U.S. Embassy and USAID/Sudan staff, to discuss the humanitarian situation in northern Sudan following the early March expulsion of non-gove [...] | 2009-05-13 11:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM632 | MINNAWI PREPARES TO COUNTER JEM DEPREDATIONS [...] (C) SLM/A leader Minni Minnawi told CDA Fernandez on May 12 that he is returning to the field in Darfur as soon as possible, perhaps on May 13, to defend his remaining positions in North Darfur against the depredations of the Chadian-suppored Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). JEM attacked S [...] | 2009-05-13 11:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PREL UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM633 | MINNAWI PREPARES TO COUNTER JEM DEPREDATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-13 11:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PREL UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM634 | SPLM DRAFT REFERENDUM ACT FOR SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) ministers maintain that the SPLM is open to outside assistance in crafting pre- and post-2011 referendum scenarios, but the responsibility for organizing such an endeavor must fall to Secretary General Pagan Amum. In the view of the GOSS, the [...] | 2009-05-13 14:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM636 | "DON'T HOLD BILATERAL RELATIONS HOSTAGE TO THE NGO [...] (C) Summary: The lifting of sanctions on Sudan and removal of Sudan from the state sponsors of terrorism list remain the highest priorities for the Government of Sudan, Assistant to the President Nafie Ali Nafie told SE Gration on May 7, accusing the U.S. of holding these more essential issues [...] | 2009-05-14 06:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID ASEC KPKO UNSC AU SU |
09KHARTOUM637 | SPLM URGES SE GRATION TO WORK CPA AND DARFUR [...] Summary. Deputy Secretary General of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) for the Northern Sector Yasir Arman and Government of National Unity (GNU) Minister of Cabinet Affairs Kosti Manibe (SPLM) urged Special Envoy Gration to work concurrently on CPA implementation and Darfur. The [...] | 2009-05-14 06:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC SOCI KPKO KDEM AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM638 | FM DENG ALOR TELLS SE GRATION THAT DARFUR REQUIRES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 7, FM Alor counseled Special Envoy Gration that the Darfur conflict can only be resolved within a broader international context, engaging Chad, Egypt, and Libya. The Special Envoy said that he sees an opportunity now to stop the fighting and begin a political process that [...] | 2009-05-14 06:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ASEC KPKO AU UNSC SU CD |
09KHARTOUM639 | AGREEMENTS WITH JEM WON'T STABILIZE DARFUR, [...] (C) Summary: Any peace process in which JEM is prominently featured will not serve as a stabilizing force in Darfur, Assistant to the President and SLM/MM leader Minni Minnawi told SE Gration in a meeting on May 8. If and when JEM signs a bilateral ceasefire with the GOS, it will simply direct [...] | 2009-05-14 06:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM640 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ASSURES SE GRATION OF GOS [...] (C) Summary: The GOS remains firmly committed to improving the operating environment for humanitarians, Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salaheddin told SE Gration at a meeting in Khartoum on May 7. Ghazi touted significant progress in the implementation of the negotiated framework agreement at b [...] | 2009-05-14 06:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM641 | EMBASSSY RECEIVES APPARENT FALSE REPORT OF PLANE CRASH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Khartoum, in cooperation with CA/OCS/ACS/AF, received an apparently false report of a plane crash initially made to the office of Representative Jay Inslee (D-Wash). Post believes that the report could be part of a larger fraud scheme or hoax. The Department may wish to i [...] | 2009-05-14 09:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL CASC KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM642 | CHALLENGES TO PROVIDING ASSISTANCE IN THE FORMER WESTERN [...] (U) During the 21-year long north-south civil war, Southern Kordofan State experienced high levels of destruction and displacement. Four years after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),which ended the conflict, populations in Muglad and Lagawa localities in western Souther [...] | 2009-05-14 09:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM644 | GOS INTENDS TO MOVE CAUTIOUSLY IN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE [...] (SBU) The Government of Sudan intends to move cautiously in its engagement with the U.S. and the international community, Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salahudin told CDA Fernandez during their final meeting May 14. While the ruling National Congress Party is eager to move forward with the Da [...] | 2009-05-17 04:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM649 | SLA/AW COMMANDER CONSENTS TO CEASEFIRE, BUT STILL [...] (SBU) Summary: SLA/Abdul Wahid General Commander Gaddura said his movement would agree to a formal 90-day ceasefire with the GOS and other Darfur rebel movements, but will not travel to Doha or any other Arab country for peace negotiations. With his territory in urgent need of additional human [...] | 2009-05-17 10:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM650 | ROGUE SAF COLONEL ON DARFUR CEASEFIRE, JEM AGGRESSION [...] (SBU) Summary: Well-known Sudanese Liberation Army-Unity (SLA/U) rebel leader and former Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) Colonel Abu Bakr Kado recently abandoned SLA/U to join Sudanese Liberation Army-Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW). He is now living in the SLA/AW stronghold of Jebel Marra with approximately [...] | 2009-05-17 11:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM651 | UNAMID LEADERSHIP WARY OF JEM'S RISE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Justice and Equality Movement's (JEM) Doha-talks monopoly has created a peace process that guarantees war, as JEM seeks to destroy or co-opt all rival factions, UNAMID JSR Rodolphe Adada and Political Affairs Chief Abdul Mohammed told CDA Fernandez on May 13. They noted that [...] | 2009-05-17 13:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU CD |
09KHARTOUM652 | A BREAK IN THE QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT: GOC FORCES AND [...] (SBU) Summary: There was conflict in Darfur on two fronts during May 14-17. On May 14, Government of Chad (GOC) forces pursued Chadian rebels into West Darfur, and unidentified aircraft bombed Chadian rebel encampments on May 15-16 near the Sudanese village of Sarow, 25 kilometers south of Mukj [...] | 2009-05-17 14:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM653 | MAY 13 SESSION OF GRANVILLE/ABBAS MURDER TRIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 13, 2009, four U.S. Embassy Foreign Service National (FSN) employees from the Regional Security Office, Political/Economic and Public Affairs sections attended the trial of five Sudanese men accused in the January 1, 2008 murders of USAID Officer John Granville and FSN d [...] | 2009-05-17 15:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PGOV SU |
09KHARTOUM660 | SOUTHERN SUDAN - HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN LRA-AFFECTED [...] Between May 7 and 14, humanitarian officers from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (State/PRM) and USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) reviewed the ongoing emergency in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)-affected areas in Eas [...] | 2009-05-18 14:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PGOV PREL EAID SOCI ASEC KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM661 | JEM TAKES KARNOI FROM GOS, SLA/MM [...] (SBU) Summary: The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) has taken Karnoi, North Darfur, from the Government of Sudan (GOS),and unconfirmed reports from SLA/Minni Minnawi cite fifty dead in the fighting over the last week near the Chadian border. Two years to the month after the signing of the [...] | 2009-05-18 14:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM665 | AMNA DIRAR FORMS EASTERN DEMOCRATIC PARTY, LAMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Eastern Front has effectively dissolved after electoral officials denied requests to register it as a political party, Dr. Amna Dirar told poloffs in a May 17 meeting. In response to this setback, Dirar formed the Eastern Democratic Party to provide an alternative to the tri [...] | 2009-05-20 04:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PINR KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM666 | SLA/MM ALLEGES CHADIAN MILITARY ASSISTANCE IN JEM ATTACKS [...] (SBU) Summary: No new fighting occurred on the Chad-Sudan border in North Darfur on May 19, but SLA/MM alleged that Chadian military officers assisted in the May 16 assault on Karnoi and previous attacks on SLA/MM positions in Sudanese territory. UNAMID has not been able to corroborate these a [...] | 2009-05-20 04:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM669 | BEJA CONGRESS, FREE LIONS ACKNOWLEDGE COLLAPSE OF THE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Eastern Front has fallen apart, representatives of the Free Lions and Beja Congress conceded to poloffs separately on May 18-19. Implementation of the Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement (ESPA) was the only hope for keeping it together, they said, but the peace dividend promised u [...] | 2009-05-20 14:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU ER CM |
09KHARTOUM670 | MAY 17 SESSION OF GRANVILLE/ABBAS MURDER TRIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 17, 2009, four U.S. Embassy Foreign Service National (FSN) employees from the Regional Security Office, Political/Economic and Public Affairs sections attended the trial of five Sudanese men accused in the January 1, 2008 murders of USAID Officer John Granville and FSN d [...] | 2009-05-20 15:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PGOV SU |
09KHARTOUM678 | NORTH DARFUR REMAINS CALM FOLLOWING CLASHES [...] (SBU) Summary: The situation in North Darfur has remained calm since May 17 clashes between JEM and the GOS at Karnoi, according to UN and rebel sources. Meanwhile, the extent of JEM's presence in Darfur remains unclear. A UNDSS officer told poloff that JEM has retreated into Chad, but UNAMID h [...] | 2009-05-22 12:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM684 | JEM ASSAULTS GOS IN UMM BARRO, MINNAWI ON STANDBY [...] (SBU) Summary: JEM forces clashed with GOS forces on May 24 in Umm Barro, North Darfur, forcing Sudanese soldiers to seek refuge at the UNAMID team site there, with JEM subsequently retreating back behind the Chadian border. Up to 300 civilians have sought refuge at the team site as well. Min [...] | 2009-05-25 19:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM686 | SOUTHERN SUDAN'S JONGLEI STATE - HUMANITARIAN SITUATION [...] (U) Relief organizations are responding to the estimated 22,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Jonglei with emergency assistance; however, the logistical challenges of the approaching rainy season, lack of roads, insecurity caused by numerous ethnic rivalries and armed groups, and the [...] | 2009-05-26 09:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM687 | DDR IN SOUTHERN SUDAN: READY OR NOT, HERE IT COMES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) in southern Sudan, which begins June 10, is expected to reduce the payroll of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA). The joint United Nations-Government of Southern Sudan DDR program is unlikely, however, to ensure that a [...] | 2009-05-26 09:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PINS EAID UNSC KPKO SU |
09KHARTOUM693 | DARFUR SECURITY UPDATE MAY 27 [...] (SBU) Summary: Backed by the forces of SLA/Minnawi, the SAF remains in firm control of Um Barro following its May 24 battle with JEM, according to UNAMID sources. Though both sides suffered casualties in the fighting, several JEM commanders are rumored to have been killed, and the rebel force a [...] | 2009-05-27 16:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM695 | SUDAN - NGOS AND GOS DELIVER OPPOSING MESSAGES IN [...] (SBU) On May 25, Senators Johnny Isakson (R-Georgia) and Bob Corker (R-Tennessee) met with representatives from four non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and Government of National Unity (GNU) Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs (MHA) officials to discuss the humanitarian situation in Sudan. N [...] | 2009-05-28 12:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM696 | CREDIBILITY OF ELECTIONS AT RISK WITH SLIPPING ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Despite the hope of election preparations moving forward rapidly with the formation of the National Election Commission (NEC),such preparation continues to be delayed. The NEC is already behind the election timeline that was announced on April 2, 2009 when an election date wa [...] | 2009-05-28 13:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM697 | CODEL ISAKSON VISIT TO EL FASHER, DARFUR, MAY 24, 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: Senator Johnny Isakson, Senator Bob Corker, Mrs. Dianne Isakson, CDA a.i. Mark Asquino and accompanying emboffs traveled to El Fasher, Darfur on May 24 to meet with internally-displaced persons (IDPs),humanitarian representatives and officials at UNAMID. Osman Kibir, the Wali ( [...] | 2009-05-28 14:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM698 | NISS CHIEF CALLS ON SENATORS TO REMOVE SUDAN FROM [...] (S) SUMMARY: At National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) Headquarters, NISS Chief Salah Ghosh expressed frustration that after nine years of NISS cooperation with the CIA, Sudan remains designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, and complained that Sudan is "paying a high price" for [...] | 2009-05-28 15:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM699 | VP TAHA WANTS POSITIVE RELATIONS WITH USG, UNITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 25 meeting, an unusually loquacious GNU Second Vice-President Ali Osman Taha told Codel Isakson (Senator Johnny Isakson R-Georgia, Senator Bob Corker,R-Tennesee) CDA a.i. Asquino, and emboffs that the GoS wants "direct engagement and direct contact" with the USG, citing a [...] | 2009-05-28 15:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM7 | MORE ON POSSIBLE REPLACEMENTS FOR PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: The SPLM continues to believe that a succession scenario is likely, and it contends that the NCP regime is actively considering several candidates to replace President Bashir. However, many observers in Khartoum doubt that President Bashir will ever agree to step down as a resul [...] | 2009-01-04 15:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SU |
09KHARTOUM700 | USG-GOSS MEETING ON SOUTHERN SUDAN AGRICULTURAL SECTOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: On Monday, May 25, USAID provided a presentation to Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) officials regarding a USAID assessment and recommendations for possible interventions in the agricultural sector. The audience included officials from a number of the GOSS Ministries, as well a [...] | 2009-05-28 16:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM701 | MEDIA REACTION TO U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY TO SUDAN EAST-WEST [...] (U) SUMMARY: The current East-West tour to China, Qatar, United Kingdom and France by U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan General Scott Gration has dominated most of the local news in Sudan. While a handful of pro-government newspapers remain optimistic and describe the visits as "encouraging" and "a [...] | 2009-05-29 07:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC KPAO OIIP SU |
09KHARTOUM703 | DONORS, UN DISCUSS HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) On May 26, donors and UN officials met to discuss the May 7 High-Level Committee (HLC) meeting and UN proposals for a new HLC terms of reference (TOR) and monitoring mechanism. During the meeting, UN Deputy Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for northern Sudan Toby Lanzer [...] | 2009-05-31 09:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM710 | MAY 25 SESSION OF GRANVILLE/ABBAS MURDER TRIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 25, 2009, U.S. Embassy Foreign Service National (FSN) employees from the Regional Security Office, Political/Economic, and Public Affairs sections attended the trial of five Sudanese men accused in the January 1, 2008 murders of USAID Officer John Granville and FSN driv [...] | 2009-05-31 15:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PGOV SU |
09KHARTOUM713 | CODEL ISKASON MEETINGS WITH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR GHAZI [...] (SBU) Summary: Senators Johnny Isakson (R-GA) and Bob Corker (R-TN) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, accompanied by CDA a.i. Asquino and emboffs, met with Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salahudin at the Ministry of Federal Rule in Khartoum on May 25. Later that afternoon, they met wit [...] | 2009-06-01 10:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM714 | SUDAN'S NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION TO MISS ITS SECOND [...] (SBU) Summary: The February 2010 election timeframe announced by Sudan's National Electoral Commission (NEC) in April remains unchanged, but voter registration that was supposed to begin on June 2 in conjunction with that announcement is not even close to starting, according to UNMIS Electoral [...] | 2009-06-01 13:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM715 | GOVERNMENT OF SOUTHERN SUDAN CABINET RESHUFFLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. President Kiir has changed ten of the 24 positions in the Government of Southern Sudan's (GoSS) Council of Ministers. Most notably, SPLA Chief of Staff Oyai Deng has been named Minister of Regional Cooperation and Kuol Athian Mawein was dismissed as Finance Minister, the third [...] | 2009-06-02 06:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ECON SOCI ASEC KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM719 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE, JUNE 1, 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: UNAMID deployment stands at approximately 69 percent, with 13,485 mission staff already deployed to Darfur. UNAMID officials predict, however, that the mission may not reach full deployment until early 2010. With the rainy season approaching, progress on deployment will slow ove [...] | 2009-06-03 07:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM720 | CDA'S COURTESY CALL ON FOREIGN MINISTER DENG ALOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Government of National Unity (GNU) Minister of Foreign Affairs Deng Alor said that the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) is keen to attend the June 23rd CPA Forum in Washington, DC, and is willing to meet with the President's Special Envoy to Sudan General Gration in [...] | 2009-06-03 07:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV SOCI AU UNSC SU KPKO PREL |
09KHARTOUM726 | NCP OFFERS ELECTION STRATEGIES AND STRESSES POST-REFERENDUM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 2, CDA Whitehead made introductory calls on Presidential Advisor Ghazi Salah Eddin as well as NCP strategists Yahya Babiker and Sayed Al-Khateeb. The NCP praised the Obama Administration's "new approach" to U.S.-Sudanese relations, provided some insight into NCP election [...] | 2009-06-04 12:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM727 | RISING OIL PRICES, REPAID ARREARS PROVIDE GOSS TEMPORARY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With world oil prices on the rebound and arrears in revenue-transfers from Khartoum reduced, the Government of Southern Sudan's (GoSS) revenues are gradually reaching levels projected in its 2009 budget, after an extremely lean first quarter. GoSS spending priorities are salary [...] | 2009-06-07 04:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EAID PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC |
09KHARTOUM729 | DARFUR UPDATE: PROXY REBELS RETREAT TO LICK THEIR WOUNDS [...] (SBU) Summary: JEM forces have reportedly returned to Chad. There is no confirmation that Sudanese warplanes have attacked JEM positions in Chad. JEM appears to have been significantly weakened following its May offensive in Sudan. Chadian rebels have returned to Sudan. While they claim to [...] | 2009-06-07 14:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM730 | NGO AFFILIATES UPDATE [...] (SBU) Since mid-May, European affiliates of three expelled U.S. non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have begun official procedures to commence (or expand, in the case of one of the affiliates) humanitarian operations in Sudan in line with agreements reached with the USG. On June 4, U.S. Emb [...] | 2009-06-08 07:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM735 | CDA'S COURTESY CALL ON DUP LEADER AL MIRGHANI [...] SUMMARY. Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Mohammed Osman al Mirghani complained to Charge Whitehead that the two CPA partners are ignoring the concerns of Sudan's other political groups. Despite this, Mirgahani seemed unable to articulate a clear strategy of how the DUP might compete in [...] | 2009-06-09 13:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SOCI ASEC KDEM AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM736 | DARFUR HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE: AS GENDER BASED VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Rape and gender-based violence (GBV) have increased in Darfur according to UN agencies and NGOs. Following the March 4-5 expulsion of 13 international NGOs, no mechanism exists to monitor such crimes in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps and rural areas. The increase in th [...] | 2009-06-10 11:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI ASEC KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM739 | NEC BRIEFS AMBASSADORS ON STATUS OF ELECTORAL PROCESS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: National Elections Commission (NEC) Chair Dr. Abel Alier Alier briefed the diplomatic corps on the status of the electoral process, elaborated on the complexity of this historic election, explained delays in the demarcation of geographic constituencies and voter registration, a [...] | 2009-06-11 05:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID SOCI ASEC KDEM AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM742 | DDR IN DARFUR: A TANTALIZING POSSIBILITY FOR PEACE [...] (SBU) Summary: UNAMID is preparing its plan for a disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DRR) program in Darfur. With a budget of $3 million USD for 18 months, UNAMID DDR staff will expand up to 30 officers and operate in all three Darfur states. UNAMID DDR will develop its plan in co [...] | 2009-06-11 13:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM743 | YASIR ARMAN: NCP/SPLM RELATIONS WORSE THAN EVER [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a courtesy call with Charge d'Affaires Whitehead on June 10, Deputy Secretary General of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM)'s Northern Sector Yasir Arman discussed his party's deteriorating relationship with the National Congress Party (NCP) and outlined the biggest c [...] | 2009-06-11 14:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM746 | DARFUR - HUMANITAREAN SITUATION IN KALMA IDP CAMP CRITICAL [...] (U) Kalma internally displaced person (IDP) camp, near Nyala, South Darfur, remains one of the most significant humanitarian-gap areas following the early March expulsions of international non-governmental organizations by the Government of Sudan (GoS). According to field reports, the humanita [...] | 2009-06-14 06:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM749 | DEMARCHE TO SUDAN ON RENEWING THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR [...] (SBU) Acting Political/Economic Chief delivered reftel talking points to MFA American Affairs Director, Ambassador Nasreldin Wali, on July 13. During a July 14 courtesy call, CDA Whitehead also left a non-paper based on talking points with MFA Under Secretary Mutrif Siddiq. 2. (SBU) Wali s [...] | 2009-06-14 15:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL AU UN SU |
09KHARTOUM75 | THE CHANGING DYNAMIC IN DARFUR: ZAGHAWA MOVEMENTS TURN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to UNAMID, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) now controls the key South Darfur villages of Labado and Muhajarriya after attacking SLM/Minnawi positions. One UNAMID source claimed that the Government of Sudan (GoS) started bombing both JEM and SLM/MM on the periph [...] | 2009-01-21 10:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM751 | MEETING WITH MFA AMERICAS DIRECTOR TOUCHES OF [...] (U) In a June 11 meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Americas' desk chief Ambassador Nasreldin Wali raised several points with Charge d'affaires, the majority of these focused upon the upcoming June 23 trilateral talks between the National Congress Party (NCP),the Sudan People's Libe [...] | 2009-06-15 11:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC AU CD SU |
09KHARTOUM752 | THREE AREAS JOINT COMMUNIQUE NOT OUT OF THE GATES [...] (U) This is an action request - See paragraph 11. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 2, Emboffs met with Clarke Soriano, head of the UN Resident Coordinator's Office, to discuss the Three Areas assessment and establishment of Joint Communiques (JCs),as well as an associated High-Level Committee, for [...] | 2009-06-15 12:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM753 | WFP BARGE CONVOY DESTROYED IN AMBUSH IN JONGLEI [...] (SBU) Jikany Nuer militia armed with weapons as heavy as RPGs ambushed a poorly conceived WFP barge convoy in the border area of eastern Jonglei-southern Upper Nile states the evening of June 13, as it ferried vital food aid to Southern Sudanese IDPs displaced by March and April ethnic clashes. [...] | 2009-06-15 13:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC EAID SOCI KPKO UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM759 | QATARI AND CHINESE AMBASSADORS PRAISE USG DIPLOMATIC [...] (SBU) During courtesy calls by Charge d'Affaires (CDA) Whitehead June 16, the Qatari and Chinese Ambassadors both expressed strong support for current U.S. diplomatic efforts in Sudan. Qatari Ambassador to Sudan Ali Bin Hassan Al-Hammadi told CDA that USG initiatives s to solve the problem of [...] | 2009-06-17 13:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL CASC KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM760 | DARFURI FEMALE STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM BEATEN [...] (SBU) Summary: Men dressed in black abayas (Note: an Islamic dress, common in Saudi Arabia but less so here, that covers a woman's entire body. End Note) reportedly raided a women's dormitory at the University of Khartoum in the early morning of June 11 and assaulted 15 Darfuri women. The foll [...] | 2009-06-17 13:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM763 | OIL: DAR BLEND GETS SWEETER, MORE ABUNDANT WHILE NILE BLEND [...] (SBU) Summary: GOS oil revenues for the month of April totalled $158.76 million, up from $157.26 million in March, according to figures released last week by the Ministry of Finance and National Economy. Though prices and production both rose in April, the resulting revenue increase was curbe [...] | 2009-06-18 10:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM764 | GOS INFORMED OF RELEASE OF 2009 TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) Poloffs met with Government of Sudan (GOS) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Acting Director of the Americas Desk Ambassador Yassir Mohammed Ali on June 17 to inform him of the release of the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Receiving the copies of the TIP Report for Sudan, Amba [...] | 2009-06-18 13:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM768 | THREE AREAS UPDATE - NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND OLD CHALLENGES [...] (U) On June 16, the Three Areas Donor Steering Group discussed developments in the operating environment in Southern Kordofan and Abyei. The group also discussed Steering Group participation in the June 22-23 Forum for Supporters of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) hosted by Special En [...] | 2009-06-21 13:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID SOCI ASEC KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM774 | MEDIA REACTION: SUDANESE MEDIA RESPONDS TO SPECIAL ENVOY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Khartoum's state-influenced media "selectively" portrayed U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan General Gration's June 17 remarks in Washington to U.S. and international press as strongly supportive of the policies of the ruling National Congress Party. Pro-government media spun the Special [...] | 2009-06-23 07:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI ASEC KPAO OIIP AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM775 | USAID-GOSS PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCE [...] SUMMARY. On Monday, June 15, officials from USG and the semi-autonomous Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) held their first Partnership Conference. This conference brought together representatives from USAID and the State Department based in Juba, Khartoum and Washington, along with more than [...] | 2009-06-24 05:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PREL SOCI ASEC KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM78 | UPPER NILE VIOLENCE CONTINUES - WITH ALLEGED POLITICAL AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNMIS/Malakal continues to report fresh violence following an altercation between Dinka and Shilluk tribal members on the margins of celebrations surrounding the 4th anniversary of Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). However, NGOs based in Upper Nile's state capital dis [...] | 2009-01-22 08:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS MARR MOPS ASEC SU |
09KHARTOUM781 | USAID AND AECOM SIGN IMPLEMENTATION PROTOCOL WITH MIC [...] (SBU) Summary. USAID and implementing partner AECOM (formerly operating in Sudan as PADCO) signed an Implementation Protocol (IP) with the Government of Sudan's Ministry of International Cooperation (MIC) on June 8, 2009. The new relationship with MIC restores the programming of the USAID Off [...] | 2009-06-24 09:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM782 | KHARTOUM EAC RECONVENES ON JUNE 23 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A/CDA Asquino reconvened the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on Wednesday, June 23, to evaluate the most recent threat information regarding the anticipated June 24 announcement of verdicts in the Granville/Abbas terrorist murder case. The EAC also discussed a commitment from [...] | 2009-06-24 09:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AEMR AMGT PGOV PTER SU |
09KHARTOUM785 | SUDANESE ELECTIONS DATE TO SLIDE TO APRIL 2010 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-25 14:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM786 | JMST SHIFTS FOCUS TO TRIPOLI GROUP, CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (SBU) Summary: With peace talks in Doha suspended due to the impasse between the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Government of Sudan (GOS),the UN/AU Joint Mediation Support Team (JMST) is shifting its immediate focus to the so-called "Tripoli Group" of rebel factions. JMST is als [...] | 2009-06-25 14:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM788 | GOS RESUMES BOMBING IN DAR ZAGHAWA AMID RUMORS OF JEM [...] (SBU) Summary: GOS aircraft bombed several remote areas around Furawiya on June 23-24 amid rumors that JEM is regrouping for another offensive, according to the UN Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS). UNDSS Officer Frazer King told poloff that the GOS aircraft sporadically bombed four to [...] | 2009-06-28 05:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS ASEC SOCI KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM789 | USAID ENABLES GOSS WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE POLICY [...] SUMMARY. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) infrastructure and facilities in southern Sudan remain abysmal with only 9% of the population having sustained access to both safe water and sanitation facilities. USAID has made this a priority for improved service delivery. Through the Building Re [...] | 2009-06-28 05:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM794 | GOS MINISTER MICHAEL MAKUEI OFFERS PESSIMISTIC UPDATE ON [...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 24, Michael Makuei Lueth, the Government of Southern Sudan's (GOSS) Minister of Legal Affairs and Constitutional Development, gave a pessimistic update to the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly (SSLA) on the stalled negotiations to adopt and revise legislation needed to i [...] | 2009-06-29 08:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM UNSC AU SU |
09KHARTOUM796 | MEDIA REACTION: COVERAGE OF VERDICTS AND SENTENCING [...] (U) SUMMARY: The state-influenced Khartoum press corps provided detailed, factual coverage of the June 24 courtroom verdicts and sentencing of the five men accused of the January 1, 2008 murders of two U.S. Embassy employees. Notable by their absence was the dearth of editorials and op-eds on [...] | 2009-06-29 13:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI ASEC KPAO OIIP AU SU |
09KHARTOUM80 | EARLY DECISION REQUIRED ON MANPADS POLICY FOR THE [...] (S/NF) Phe US Deartments of State and Defense will organize an air space management conference in Juba for the SPLA, tentatively planned for late February. Although DOS and DOD plan to cover topics such as air safety, air space management, and air defense, among others, the primary desire of [...] | 2009-01-22 10:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM802 | PARTING THOUGHTS ON THE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN DARFUR FROM THE [...] (SBU) On his last day on the job after five years with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Sudan, two of those years as the OCHA/Sudan Chief, Mike McDonagh (protect) provided USAID officers with a candid tour d'horizon of the humanitarian situation in Darfur. [...] | 2009-07-01 08:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID KPKO SOCI ASEC AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM803 | NAFIE SATISFIED WITH TRILATERAL TALKS [...] (C) Summary: In a June 30 meeting with CDA Whitehead, influential Assistant to the President Dr. Nafie Ali Nafie expressed satisfaction with the June round of Trilateral Talks in Washington, and deemed the progress made in improving bilateral relations "acceptable and reasonable." He urged the [...] | 2009-07-01 13:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM804 | GOS REPORTEDLY ATTACKS JEM PRESENCE IN HASHABA, NORTH [...] (SBU) Summary: GOS forces targeting former SLA/Unity rebels now allied with JEM attacked the village of Hashaba on June 27-28, according to UN and rebel sources. The attacks consisted of Antonov bombing followed by a ground assault. The indigenous rebel force, comprised of two commanders, 36 [...] | 2009-07-01 14:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS ASEC SOCI KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM806 | GOSS RECEIVING FULL SHARE OF FOREIGN CURRENCY [...] (C) Summary: In a June 29 meeting with CDA Whitehead, GNU State Minister of Finance Dr. Luol Deng explained that contentions on the dual banking system between the NCP and SPLM arose due to mistakes made by the South in drafting the implementation annex of the CPA. He further asserted that co [...] | 2009-07-02 05:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EAID PGOV PREL KPKO UNSC AU SU |
09KHARTOUM807 | NCP AND SPLM NEGOTIATE REFORM LEGISLATION; CONSENSUS ON A [...] (SBU) Summary. National Congress Party (NCP) parliamentarian and political heavyweight Ibrahim Ghandour and Government of National Unity (GNU) State Minister of Justice Wek Mamer Kuol (of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement) told poloffs that while the National Constitutional Review Commiss [...] | 2009-07-02 13:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM808 | FINANCE MINISTER ALJAZ SAYS NCP COMMITTED TO [...] (C) Summary: The National Congress Party (NCP) is committed to the peaceful resolution of Sudan's political problems so it can focus its energy on economic development, Minister of Finance Dr. Awad Aljaz told CDA Whitehead in a July 2 meeting. Striking a friendly tone, Aljaz expressed hope tha [...] | 2009-07-03 09:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM810 | USAID/FFP DEPUTY DIRECTOR'S TRIP TO DARFUR [...] From June 20-24, a USAID team comprising the visiting Deputy Director of the Office of Food For Peace (FFP),Washington and Sudan-based FFP Officers and a USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) Field Officer visited Darfur to meet with officials from the UN World Food Program ( [...] | 2009-07-06 14:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PREL PREF ASEC SOCI KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM811 | DARFUR HUMANITARIAN UPDATE [...] (SBU) The number of security incidents involving the UN and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Darfur has remained stable, with no increases reported in recent weeks. Nevertheless, the situation on the ground is unpredictable, with security remaining a primary concern for agencies. [...] | 2009-07-06 14:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM814 | UN ELECTIONS CHIEF CALLS DELAY OF ELECTIONS TO APRIL 2010 [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 30, poloffs attended the monthly meeting of the Electoral Assistance Group (EAG) in Khartoum. UNMIS Chief Electoral Affairs Officer Ray Kennedy noted that the National Electoral Commission (NEC) would imminently release a new electoral calendar, which calls for voter reg [...] | 2009-07-07 06:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM816 | CHARGE DISCUSSES TRIALERAL TALKS, ABYEI, AND TRADE [...] (SBU) Summary. CDA Whitehead met with MFA Under Secretary Mutriff Sadiq on July 5 to discuss, inter alia, the upcoming visit of Special Envoy Gration. Mutriff spoke at some length on efforts to assure a peaceful reaction to the anticipated July 22 arbitration decision on Abyei by The Internat [...] | 2009-07-07 15:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM819 | SRSG QAZI WARNS UNMIS UNABLE TO QUELL A MAJOR [...] (C) Summary. UNMIS will be able to quell localized incidents of unrest in Abyei, but it cannot guarantee the maintenance of order and the protection of all civilians if a major outbreak of violence occurs following the decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA),UN SRSG Ashraf Qazi [...] | 2009-07-08 15:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO UNSC AU SU |
09KHARTOUM820 | IRISH AMBASSADOR BRIEFS CDA ON NGO KIDNAPPING [...] (C) Gerard Corr, Ireland's Ambassador to Cairo, met with CDA Whitehead on July 8 to discuss the kidnapping of two female staff of the Irish NGO GOAL that occurred on July 3 in Kutum. Corr is in Khartoum accompanied by a military officer, as well as a small police and military team currently in [...] | 2009-07-08 15:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC EAID KPKO UNSC AU SU EI |
09KHARTOUM829 | CHIEFS OF MISSION TOLD GOS IS COMMITTED TO DOHA TALKS [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOS is committed to continuing the stalled Doha peace talks with the so-called "Tripoli Group" of Darfuri rebel factions, as well as increased participation from civil society groups, GOS lead negotiator Dr. Amin Hassan Omer. This message was delivered in Arabic and English [...] | 2009-07-12 04:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS ASEC SOCI KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM83 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR SAYS NEW MILITARY ACTION [...] (C) Summary: In a January 22 meeting with CDA Fernandez, influential Presidential Advisor Dr. Mustafa Osman Ismail acknowledged a tactical mistake on the part of the SAF for failing to intervene quickly against JEM in recent clashes with the forces of Minni Minnawi (reftel). He admitted that t [...] | 2009-01-23 08:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM834 | VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE BANK OF SOUTH SUDAN AIRS HIS [...] (C) Summary: In a July 9 meeting with CDA Whitehead, the Assistant Governor of the Central Bank of Sudan, Mr. Kornelio Koriom Mayik, who also serves as head of the Bank of Southern Sudan (BOSS),described his contentions with northern officials over fiscal policy, especially with regard to [...] | 2009-07-13 11:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EAID PGOV PREL KPKO UNSC AU SU |
09KHARTOUM836 | KHARTOUM BACKPEDALS ON TIMING OF PERMANENT COURT [...] (C ) Summary: CDA met with MFA Undersecretary Mutriff Saddiq on July 13, to review logistic details for the upcoming trilateral talks and to discuss President Obama,s speech in Ghana and his meetings in Moscow. Mutriff reiterated his &personal8 concerns about the security situation in [...] | 2009-07-13 14:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM837 | SUDAN: CDA MEETS WITH SLA/MM REBEL FACTION LEADER [...] (C) Summary: CDA Whitehead, the DCM and POLOFF met with Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA/MM) faction leader, Mini Minnawi and senior advisor Ali Traio at Minnawi's Khartoum residence on July 9. Minnawi began the meeting by saying that while the current situation in Darfur remains quiet, he w [...] | 2009-07-14 05:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM838 | REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE ON PARTICIPATION IN EVENTS [...] (U) This is an action request ) see para. 4. 2. (C) During the coming months Post anticipates protocol/religious events that likely will entail contact between Embassy personnel, including the Chief of Mission, and President Bashir. The Muslim holy month of Ramadan traditionally features a [...] | 2009-07-14 12:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SU |
09KHARTOUM84 | SLM/MM ALLEGES JEM MANIPULATED BY GOS [...] (SBU) Summary: The SLA/MM commanders who defected to JEM last month are in fact government agents who instigated JEM's attack on Minnawi forces in Muhajiriya to sow discord amongst the rival Zaghawa movements at the behest of the government, SLM/MM reps told poloffs in a meeting on January 22. [...] | 2009-01-23 09:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM841 | ABYEI SECURITY UPDATE [...] (C) On July 14, CDA Whitehead met with SRSG Ashraf Qazi to discuss the impending decision of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) on the Abyei border issue. Qazi stated that while the National Congress Party (NCP) has reportedly asked for a delay in the announcement of the PCA decision (Ref [...] | 2009-07-15 05:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM844 | SUDAN - INITIAL RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INCREASED [...] (SBU) Protection concerns--particularly incidents of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV)--persist throughout conflict-affected areas of Sudan. Nearly six years after conflict erupted in Sudan's Darfur region, SGBV continues to negatively affect Darfuri communities; however, reliable statis [...] | 2009-07-15 12:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL EAID SOCI KWMN KOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM849 | SPECIAL ENVOY MEETING WITH NISS DIRECTOR GENERAL [...] (u) This is an action request. 2. (c) I met with NISS DG Salah Ghosh and Government of Sudan (GOS) Presidential Advisor on Darfur Ghazi Salah Eddin for an hour on July 16. A full report will follow in other channels, but I wanted to convey the following messages and ask Embassy Chad's fo [...] | 2009-07-17 07:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KPKO MARR MOPS PINS PREL UN SU |
09KHARTOUM85 | UNAMID DISCUSSES CEASEFIRE PLANS AND SOUTH DARFUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 22, Rodolphe Adada, the Joint Special Representative (JSR) of the United Nations and African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID,) told CDA Fernandez that UNAMID continues to draft its ceasefire plans. Adada stated that UNAMID's plan will be flexible and applicable in bot [...] | 2009-01-23 09:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM851 | DARFUR - LIMITED STAFFING UNDECUTS UNDSS EFFECTIVENESS TO [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 12. 2. (SBU) Nearly three years after the U.S. Government funded Saving Lives Together Initiative began in Darfur, the UN Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) program continues to be insufficiently staffed to achieve its intended objec [...] | 2009-07-19 14:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM857 | SE GRATION VISITS KALMA CAMP AND MEETS WITH CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (U) During July 17-18, U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration traveled to South Darfur to review the humanitarian situation in Kalma and Kass internally-displaced person (IDP) camps and meet with Darfuri civil society and ethnic leaders. A report of Gration's trip to Kass will be provided v [...] | 2009-07-21 11:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM858 | SE GRATION URGES BASSOLE TO PURSUE PEACE PROCESS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: The UN/AU Joint Mediation Support Team (JMST) will continue its work with the so-called "Tripoli Group" of rebel factions and plans to hold a civil society conference in September to broaden participation in the peace process, Joint Chief Mediator Djibril Bassole told SE Gration [...] | 2009-07-21 11:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM859 | SE GRATION VISITS KASS IDP CAMPS AND IDP RETURN VILLAGE [...] (U) On July 18, U.S. Special Envoy (SE) to Sudan J. Scott Gration and his delegation traveled to Kass to assess remaining expulsion-related gaps in Kass town's internally displaced persons (IDP) camps and to visit a village of reported returns. During meetings with Kass's largely Fur tribe IDP [...] | 2009-07-21 13:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM86 | DARFUR PLATFORM: A 90-DAY PLAN [...] This is an Action Request. See Paragraph 11. 2. Summary: The purpose of this cable is to outline Post's 90-day plan for enhancing the USG's ability to pursue essential policy and program objectives in Darfur (See also reftel A). Creating a secure platform for USG operations in Darfur is i [...] | 2009-01-23 11:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC AMGT ABLD UN SU |
09KHARTOUM860 | SE MEETING WITH ABYEI LEADERS BOUND FOR THE HAGUE [...] (SBU) Summary: Special Envoy (SE) Gration presided over a July 20 meeting of senior NCP and Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) officials and Ngok Dinka and Misseriya Leaders, the latter parties bound for The Hague to hear the July 22 ruing of the Permanent Count of Arbitration (PCA) [...] | 2009-07-21 13:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM861 | SPECIAL ENVOY DISCUSSES BILATERAL ISSUES WITH NCP [...] (C) Summary: At the request of the National Congress Party (NCP),Special Envoy Scott Gration met with select members of the NCP trilateral negotiating team for 90 minutes on July 19 to discuss bilateral issues. The substance of issues raised by the NCP was all too familiar, although the ton [...] | 2009-07-22 07:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM862 | PERMANENT COURT OF ARBITRATION DECISION CHANGES ABYEI [...] (SBU) 1. (SBU) Summary: Special Envoy Gration, Charge Whitehead, as well as representatives from the EU, UN and Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC),went to Abyei on July 22 for the announcement of The Hague's Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) decision on the province's border demarc [...] | 2009-07-23 06:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM866 | SPLA: Deterring External Threats While Addressing Internal [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a July 23 meeting with Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration, the Government of Southern Sudan's Minister of Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) Affairs Nhial Deng Nhial and the SPLA Chairman of the General Staff James Hoth Mai provided their assessment of the security threa [...] | 2009-07-27 04:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM867 | SPLA: Deterring External Threats While Addressing Internal [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a July 23 meeting with Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration, the Government of Southern Sudan's Minister of Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) Affairs Nhial Deng Nhial and the SPLA Chairman of the General Staff James Hoth Mai provided their assessment of the security threa [...] | 2009-07-27 04:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM868 | SUBJECT: Special Envoy Gration's July 22 Visit to Abyei [...] (U) Summary: Special Envoy (SE) Scott Gration traveled to Abyei on July 22 to observe, on the ground, the announcement of the ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague on the delimitation of the borders of Abyei. During the course of the day the SE: met with the comman [...] | 2009-07-27 04:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM869 | Sudan: Special Envoy Gration and CDA Whitehead visit Heglig [...] (U) On July 21 Special Envoy (SE) Gration and Charge (CDA) Whitehead visited Heglig oilfield, the field headquarters of the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company (GNPOC). Taking off from the regional capital of Kadugli, SE and his delegation were transported by helicopter over the lush rainy [...] | 2009-07-27 04:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM874 | UGANDAN AMBASSADOR REQUESTS US ASSISTANCE WITH [...] (C) Summary. Ugandan Ambassador Betty Akech Okullou called on Charge July 28 to discuss the fate of a Ugandan national abducted a month ago in Darfur (reftel). Okullou said she had been consulting closely with the Irish, who are also working to free an Irish national abducted at the same ti [...] | 2009-07-28 11:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL PINR EAID UN AU SU UG IR |
09KHARTOUM881 | GOK/GOSS AGREE ON TIMETABLE FOR SECOND TANK [...] (C) GOSS xxxxxxxxxxxx has admitted that, on the margins of the Washington "Forum for CPA Partners," he pressed Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula on the need to expedite delivery to South Sudan of tanks off-loaded from the MV Faina. Three months had passed since Nairobi initially agreed -- alb [...] | 2009-07-29 14:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PINS PREL PINR EFIN KE MARR SU UNSC UG |
09KHARTOUM883 | SECOND TRADE/INVESTMENT DELEGATION YIELDS GAINS IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: The July 2009 Trade and Investment Delegation (TradeDel),focused on investment opportunities the agricultural sector has generated interest by American investors in at least nine potentially viable agricultural projects, and garnered political capital for the US Government in the [...] | 2009-07-30 09:38:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EINV EAGR ETRD AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM888 | SUDANESE DIPLOMATIC POTPOURRI: CHADIAN REBELS, [...] (C) Summary. Charge d'affaires (CDA) met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Dr. Mutriff Sidiq on July 30 to review a range of issues. CDA requested information on the current location of Chadian rebel leaders in Sudan as well as the disposition of their forces, to which Mutriff [...] | 2009-08-02 10:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS ODIP PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI UN AU CD SU |
09KHARTOUM89 | UNAMID DEPLOYMENT UPDATE, JANUARY 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: The big news in UNAMID deployment for January 2009 was the successful movement, with strong Embassy support especially from the Defense Liaison Office (DLO),of Rwandan troops and equipment by the U.S. Air Force. The movements went flawlessly with full cooperation by the GoS and [...] | 2009-01-25 13:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM890 | CHADIAN REBELS WITHDRAW BUT MILITARY TENSIONS REMAIN ON [...] (SBU) Summary: In a July 29 meeting in Khartoum, United des Forces de la Resistance (UFR) Chadian rebel commander Mahamat Hanno claimed that UFR President Timane Erdimi and the UFR commanders have returned to Khartoum. UFR combatants have reportedly withdrawn from the border but have not disar [...] | 2009-08-02 12:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM893 | 2009 ELECTIONS BUDGET PROPOSAL RELEASED [...] (SBU) Summary: The National Elections Commission (NEC) announced its 2009 budget of approximately $153 million USD on July 27, 2009, down from an earlier request of more than one billion USD. The GNU would commit approximately $72 million to 2009 elections preparations and seek over $79 millio [...] | 2009-08-04 05:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI EAID AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM895 | MASSIVE GRAIN CONTRACTS THREATEN SOUTHERN SUDAN BUDGET [...] (U) SUMMARY. Speaking on July 28 before the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly (SSLA),David Deng Athorbei, the Government of Southern Sudan's (GOSS) newly-appointed Minister of Finance, publicly confirmed that the GOSS has committed six billion Sudanese pounds (appx. 2.7 billion USD) to off- [...] | 2009-08-04 08:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EPIN EAGR ECON SU |
09KHARTOUM901 | PRO-REGIME IDP LEADER MURDERED IN ABU SHOUK CAMP [...] (SBU) Summary: A prominent pro-regime IDP leader in Abu Shouk Camp was murdered in the early morning of August 2, according to IDP and UN sources. Omer Adam Ishaq, known as "Saroukh", was shot and killed along with his wife by unknown gunmen at his home. Reasons for the attack are unknown pen [...] | 2009-08-04 14:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PINS SU |
09KHARTOUM903 | NCP UNHELPFUL ON ABYEI, SPLM RELUCTANT ON ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In separate meetings with visiting Deputy Chief of Mission Mark Asquino, USAID Mission Director William Hammink, and Washington-based staff; senior Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) and Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) officials expressed frustration with the National [...] | 2009-08-05 09:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM EPET SOCI SU |
09KHARTOUM904 | CHARGE MEETING WITH CHADIAN REBEL LEADERSHIP [...] (C) On August 4, Charge d'Affaires (CDA) Whitehead met with Union des Forces de la Resistance (UFR) President Timane Erdimi to deliver talking points as requested by AF/C. Erdimi was accompanied by UFR Second Vice President Abdelwahid Aboul Makaye, Secretary General Abakar Tollimi, former RFC [...] | 2009-08-05 12:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PREL UN AU SU EU FR |
09KHARTOUM905 | DEFENDANT IN TROUSERS CASE WOULD ACCEPT LASHING TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese security forces on August 4 fired tear gas to disperse protesters at the trial of Lubna Hussein, a journalist currently working as a Public Affairs Officer at the United Nations. Ms. Hussein was arrested in Khartoum on July 3 and charged with "indecent dress" along with [...] | 2009-08-05 15:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM908 | HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE ASSESSMENT MISSION TO SOUTH DARFUR AND [...] (U) SUMMARY. On July 28 and 29, the High Level Committee (HLC) made a joint assessment mission to Shattaia, Gereida, Donkey Abai, and Donkey Dereisa, South Darfur. The 40-person delegation included representatives from the Office of the Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator (HC),Arab League, UK De [...] | 2009-08-05 15:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM91 | ABYEI ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES TO STRUGGLE DUE TO LACK OF [...] (SBU) According to Administrator Arop Mayok, the Abyei Interim Administration (AIA) has made little progress in securing funding since Mayok's meeting with CDA Fernandez in early December (ref A). Four months after it was established, the Government of National Unity (GNU) still has provided th [...] | 2009-01-25 13:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF EAID SOCI KPKO UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM911 | UAE CONCESSIONS THREATENS BOMA-JONGLEI BIODIVERSITY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Despite stiff requirements for consultation with and preapproval of projects by the Government of Southern Sudan's Ministry of Wildlife (MOW),the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ecotourism company, Al Ain National Wildlife Establishment has, without authorization, built a two-kilometer [...] | 2009-08-06 12:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM914 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR BONA MALWAL DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: Charge d'Affaires Whitehead met with Presidential Adviser Bona Malwal on July 29 at the latter,s request. A former minister in the late 1970s under Nimeiri and a long-time antagonist of the late John Garang, Malwal continues to pursue politics in the South while maintaining stron [...] | 2009-08-07 09:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PHUM PGOV UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM915 | MEDIA AND ADVOCACY GROUPS HAVE DISTORTED OUR [...] (C) Summary: The GOS is satisfied with bilateral engagement under the Obama administration, but it needs Congress to overcome "bias" against the National Congress Party (NCP) regime, influential Presidential Advisor Dr. Nafie Ali Nafie told U.S. Representative Keith Ellison on August 5. Blamin [...] | 2009-08-07 09:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PHUM AU SU |
09KHARTOUM916 | TAHA ASSESSES CPA, APPEALS FOR LIFTING OF [...] (C) Summary: In an August 5 meeting, Government of National Unity (GNU) Second Vice President Ali Osman Taha offered Representative Keith Ellison a mixed assessment on implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). Provisions like Wealth Sharing, he said, have been successful becau [...] | 2009-08-07 09:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EAID EFIN PREF PGOV KPKO SU |
09KHARTOUM917 | GHAZI SALAHEDDIN TELLS REPRESENTATIVE ELLISON: "WE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 5 conversation with Congressman Keith Ellison, Presidential Adviser and National Congress party (NCP) intellectual Dr. Ghazi Salaheddin said he is open to visits by anyone seeking to engage with the regime, including members of the U.S. Congress and the Darfur advocac [...] | 2009-08-07 09:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI UN AU SU |
09KHARTOUM92 | WIDESPREAD SAF BOMBING REPORTED IN DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Contacts from UNAMID, Darfur rebel movements, and cival society reported wideqpread Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) bombing in both North and South Darfur on January 24-25. Sources reported that the bombing was not restricted to JEM positions in Muhajarriya, South Darfur, but inclu [...] | 2009-01-25 13:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM922 | JEM RETURNS TO WADI HAWAR FOLLOWING CLASHES WITH THE GOS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: A Government of Sudan (GOS) force comprised of Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Arab militia clashed with Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) forces in the area of Mellit in North Darfur on August 5, according to UN and rebel sources. The clashes resulted in four dead and 19 inj [...] | 2009-08-10 14:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS PGOV PREL MOPS AU UNSC CH SU |
09KHARTOUM924 | GNU REIMBURSES GOSS $52 MILLION FOR UNAUTHORIZED DEDUCTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of National Unity (GNU) has reimbursed the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) the equivalent of USD 52 million for unauthorized deductions from its share of oil revenues, as agreed to at the July 21 Trilateral talks in Washington. GOSS Petroleum Commission Direct [...] | 2009-08-11 07:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EPET EFIN ECON UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM925 | AN UMMA FACTIONAL LEADER'S TAKE ON ELECTIONS AND [...] (c) Summary. In a rambling hour-long meeting with Charge on August 10, UMMA party factional leader Mubarak Fadail Elmahdi addressed a possible opposition boycott of elections, internal National Congress Party (NCP)/Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) dynamics, the Lubna Hussein case, [...] | 2009-08-11 12:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR AU SU |
09KHARTOUM926 | PROTOCOL FOR USG ELECTIONS SUPPORT SIGNED WITH GNU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. and GNU officials signed a Protocol implementing USD 21 million in voter education and domestic observation programs for Sudan's 2010 national elections to be implemented by the National Democratic Institute. The protocol is the third in a series which also provides assist [...] | 2009-08-11 13:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM927 | HAC OFFERS JOINT VERIFICATION MECHANISM TO HIGH-LEVEL [...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 5, the High-Level Committee (HLC) met in Khartoum, the third such meeting since the U.S. Special Envoy and the Government of National Unity (GNU) agreed to empower the HLC to focus on urgent humanitarian issues in Darfur, and to expand it to include important GNU line mi [...] | 2009-08-11 16:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PREL SOCI UN SU |
09KHARTOUM928 | Security, Access Continue to Limit Aid Efforts and Returns [...] (U) Health and sanitation are stable in the old North Darfur Zam Zam internally displaced persons (IDP) camp. However, the new camp has poor sanitation and high rates of child malnutrition. Security in North Darfur remains tenuous. UNAMID does no night patrols, and only one or two patrols ou [...] | 2009-08-11 16:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM929 | JEM RETURNS TO WADI HAWAR FOLLOWING CLASHES WITH THE GOS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: A Government of Sudan (GOS) force comprised of Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Arab militia clashed with Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) forces in the area of Mellit in North Darfur on August 5, according to UN and rebel sources. The clashes resulted in four dead and 19 inj [...] | 2009-08-11 16:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS PGOV PREL MOPS AU UNSC CH SU |
09KHARTOUM93 | SPLM DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL ANNE ITTO ON BASHIR, THE ICC, [...] (SBU) Summary: Following a SPLM Political Bureau meeting to discuss impending ICC indictments against GNU President Omar Bashir, Consul General met with SPLM Deputy Secretary General Anne Itto on January 22 to discuss the results of the party's deliberations. In the course of the meeting, Itto [...] | 2009-01-26 14:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM930 | SECURITY, ACCESS CONTINUE TO LIMIT AID EFFORTS AND RETURNS [...] (U) Health and sanitation are stable in the old North Darfur Zam Zam internally displaced persons (IDP) camp. However, the new camp has poor sanitation and high rates of child malnutrition. Security in North Darfur remains tenuous. UNAMID does no night patrols, and only one or two patrols ou [...] | 2009-08-11 16:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM931 | TECHNICAL BORDER COMMITTEE MAKES LITTLE PROGRESS ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ad Hoc Technical Border Committee, mandated in the Comprehensive Peace Committee (CPA) to divide the border between North and South Sudan along the January 1, 1956 border, is unlikely to complete work by the upcoming September 30, 2009 deadline. Only one of three sectors is [...] | 2009-08-12 07:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI EAID AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM934 | SEVENTEEN ARRESTED IN CRACKDOWN FOLLOWING CAMP MURDER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Seventeen people have been detained in Abu Shouk and Al Salam Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camps following the murder of a pro-government umda (community leader) on August 2, according to IDP community contacts. UNAMID Human Rights has confirmed that at least 13 people are [...] | 2009-08-12 10:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF KPKO AU SU |
09KHARTOUM94 | NCP ALLEGEDLY ARMING ITS DARFUR ALLIES AS ICC LOOMS [...] (SBU) Summary: In preparation for potential unrest in Darfur, several sources reported that the NCP has begun a large-scale arms distribution program in all three states of Darfur. In Nyala, an SPLM official alleged that the NCP is paying families to accept Kalashnikovs. Meanwhile, Fur IDP le [...] | 2009-01-26 14:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM942 | LONG-TIME NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY [...] (c) Summary. On August 13 President al Bashir sent a shock-wave through Khartoum political circles with a decree replacing long-time NISS Director General (DG) Salah Abdallah, better known as Salah Ghosh, with NISS Deputy Director Major General Mohammed Atta al-Moula. Ghosh will join the Pr [...] | 2009-08-14 10:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PINR SU |
09KHARTOUM944 | SOUTH KORDOFAN'S ICC-INDICTED GOVERNOR SEEKS TO ENSURE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. South Kordofan's ICC-indicted Governor, Ahmed Mohamed Haroun (NCP) and his SPLM deputy, Abdel Aziz Al Helou, asked international donors on August 8 for humanitarian and development assistance in delivering a peace dividend to the people of their state. They described a newly c [...] | 2009-08-16 08:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI EAID AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM949 | REP. ELLISON FINDS CONCERN ON CPA PROGRESS, STRONG SUPPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During his August 7-8 visit to Juba, Rep. Keith Ellison's senior interlocutors in the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) and the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly (SSLA) stressed the incomplete state of CPA implementation, particularly concerning border demarcation and prepar [...] | 2009-08-17 07:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM95 | GOS/JEM CLASHES, AERIAL BOMBING SOUTH OF EL FASHER [...] (SBU) Apparently in an effort to r%pel JEM vEhicles, GOS airplanes conducted aerial bombings January 26 in areas south of El Fasher, capital of North Darfur state. The bombing occurred in close proximity to Zam Zam IDP camp, approximately 20 km from the North Darfur capital. UN and NGO source [...] | 2009-01-26 14:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM951 | REP. ELLISON FINDS CONCERN ON CPA PROGRESS, STRONG SUPPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During his August 7-8 visit to Juba, Rep. Keith Ellison's senior interlocutors in the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) and the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly (SSLA) stressed the incomplete state of CPA implementation, particularly concerning border demarcation and prepar [...] | 2009-08-18 04:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM952 | NCRC "FINISHES" REFERENDUM LAW, BUT FIVE BIG ISSUES REMAIN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Professor Abdulla Idris, co-chairman of the National Constitutional Review Commission (NCRC) told Poloff August 11 that the NCRC has finished its work on the Referendum Law, but he noted that disputed provisions related to the electoral system, eligible voters, voting process, re [...] | 2009-08-18 04:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM957 | IOM STILL UNABLE TO WORK IN DARFUR; PLANNING FOR RETURNS [...] (U) SUMMARY. During the week of August 10, USAID Mission Director and staff met with the heads of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA) to discuss potential returns in Darfur, IOM's role in verifying returns, [...] | 2009-08-18 04:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PHUM KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM964 | Opposition Parties Call for Elections Boycott [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Latif Joseph Sabag, a founding member of the Umma Party, told poloff August 17 that opposition party leaders decided August 15 to boycott next year's elections, based on their view that the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) conducted a flawed census, failed to reform national [...] | 2009-08-23 05:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM SU |
09KHARTOUM965 | YASSIR ARMAN: REFERENDUM LAW IMPASSE AND POPULAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an August 10 meeting, Deputy Secretary General of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM)'s Northern Sector and SPLM National Assembly Caucus Chairman, Yassir Arman, said SPLM believes national legislation is necessary to conduct popular consultations in Blue Nile and So [...] | 2009-08-23 07:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI EAID PHUM AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM967 | SUDAN: STATE MINISTER OF FINANCE SHALLABI DENIES [...] (C) Summary: State Minister of Finance, Dr. Tarig Shallabi, denies that the Government of Sudan (GOS) owes any arrears to the Government of South Sudan (GOSS) in contrast to GOSS and media reporting to the contrary. During a meeting with poloff on August 17, Shallabi said that the GOSS lacks [...] | 2009-08-23 08:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EPET PGOV PREL UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM968 | UNAMID CONVENES ROUNDTABLE FORUM ON DPA IMPLEMENTATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 19 UNAMID convened a roundtable meeting on implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) in El Fasher. Though billed as a discussion of DPA implementation and challenges, the meeting served primarily as a forum for representatives of SLA/Minni Minnawi (MM) to air t [...] | 2009-08-23 15:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS PGOV PREL MOPS AU UNSC CH SU |
09KHARTOUM969 | UNAMID CONVENES ROUNDTABLE FORUM ON DPA IMPLEMENTATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 19 UNAMID convened a roundtable meeting on implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) in El Fasher. Though billed as a discussion of DPA implementation and challenges, the meeting served primarily as a forum for representatives of SLA/Minni Minnawi (MM) to air t [...] | 2009-08-23 15:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS PGOV PREL MOPS AU UNSC CH SU |
09KHARTOUM970 | CODEL HEARS IDP PROBLEMS AT DARFUR'S ZAM ZAM IDP CAMP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Congressman Keith Ellison traveled to El Fasher, North Darfur on August 6 to visit the Zam Zam Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp. Conditions at the camp have deteriorated following an influx of 30,000 IDPs from South Darfur in February and the expulsion of humanitarian non [...] | 2009-08-23 15:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM PGOV KPKO SOCI AU SU |
09KHARTOUM979 | SOUTH DARFUR HUMANITARIAN SITUATION STABLE, BUT [...] (U) SUMMARY. During the week of August 10, USAID staff traveled to South Darfur to assess the humanitarian situation. Although the overall humanitarian situation is currently stable and emergency gaps are filled following the March 2009 expulsions of non-governmental organizations (NGOs),rel [...] | 2009-08-25 08:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PHUM KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM980 | MALAKAL REMAINS DIVIDED AND COMBUSTIBLE [...] (C) Summary: Malakal, capital of Upper Nile State and site of serious February clashes between components of the local Joint Integrated Unit (JIU),remains divided and combustible. In a meeting on August 19, Deputy Governor of Upper Nile State Dok Jok (SPLM) told Poloff that "the idea of par [...] | 2009-08-25 13:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KPKO MCAP MOPS SU |
09KHARTOUM983 | GOSS FINANCE MINISTER OUTLINES PLANS, NEEDS FOR ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Special Envoy Scott Gration, the Government of Southern Sudan's (GOSS) Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, David Deng Athorbei expressed serious concerns regarding Southern Sudan's immediate financial challenges. Painting a grim picture of the South's on [...] | 2009-08-26 08:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER PINR KDEM MOPS ECON EFIN ENRG |
09KHARTOUM990 | CDA DISCUSSES DARFUR WITH UNAMID COMMANDER [...] (SBU) Summary. General Martin Luther Agwai, outgoing Force Commander for the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID),told Charge on August 26 that Darfuris know little about democracy, and view the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) as a southern party, while the Arab [...] | 2009-08-27 11:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF KDEM EAID UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM994 | UNAMID Workers Kidnapped in Darfur; No Americans Involved [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On Saturday August 29, armed men seized two expatriates working in a civilian capacity for the joint U.N.-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID),the peacekeeping force in Darfur. One kidnapping victim is a Nigerian citizen who may have family in the United States, and the sec [...] | 2009-08-30 13:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM SU |
09KHARTOUM998 | UNAMID Workers Kidnapped in Darfur; No Americans Involved [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-31 06:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM SU |
10KHARTOUM101 | French Ambassador Reports Release of Darfur Hostage [...] (SBU) Summary: French Ambassador Nicoloso informed CDA on February 7 that a French aid worker at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),held hostage in Darfur since November, 2009, had been released. End summary. 2. (SBU) French Ambassador Nicoloso told CDA on February 5 that [...] | 2010-02-09 13:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ICRC CD SU |
10KHARTOUM102 | SLA/AW INFIGHTING CONTINUES; REBELS FAIL TO TAKE GOLO [...] (SBU) Summary: The January 5 killing of Sudan Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) faction Commander Abdalla Bakr (reftel) has led to sporadic infighting within the movement, according to unconfirmed reports out of Jebel Marra. Meanwhile, elements of the SLA/AW faction attacked the Sudan Armed [...] | 2010-01-20 07:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PHUM PINR ASEC SU |
10KHARTOUM103 | Debrief of Chadian President's Visit to Khartoum [...] (SBU) Summary. Sudanese Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salah Eddin, met with Charge on February 10 to review Chadian President Idriss Deby's February 8 and 9 visit to Khartoum. Ghazi characterized the visit as a "breakthrough," and said that the formerly icy relationship between Deby and Su [...] | 2010-02-10 11:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PBTS PINS EAID SU CD |
10KHARTOUM104 | DON'T NEGLECT DARFUR'S ARABS, WARNS CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVIST [...] (SBU) Summary: Darfur's Arab tribes must be included in the peace process if a lasting solution to the Darfur conflict is to be found, Darfuri civil society activist Hamid Nur told polchief in a meeting on January 12. Noting that Arab tribes feel left out of the Doha process, he urged that the [...] | 2010-01-20 08:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SU |
10KHARTOUM105 | SPLM Presidential Candidate Arman on Election Prospects [...] (c) Summary. On February 11 Charge d'Affaires met with the Sudanese Popular Liberation Movement's (SPLM) Yasir Arman, Deputy Secretary General of the SPLM (head of Northern Sector) as well as the SPLM candidate for national president. An ebullient Arman charted an electoral calculus that wo [...] | 2010-02-12 10:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PBTS ECON ECIN EPET PNAT SU |
10KHARTOUM106 | Summary of Eastern Sudan Issues Group Meeting [...] (U) Summary: British Ambassador Rosalind Marsden hosted the first meeting of the newly-launched Eastern Sudan Issues Group on January 18. The meeting, which was well-attended by approximately thirty ambassadors and heads-of-agencies, included representatives from both the United Nations Hig [...] | 2010-01-20 10:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SU ER |
10KHARTOUM108 | Sudan's URRP Nominates Presidential Candidate [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 05, Sudan's Umma Renewal and Reform Party (URRP) announced its intention to nominate its Chairman, Mubarak al-Fadil al-Mahdi, for President in the April 2010 general elections. Mr. al-Fadil al-Mahdi has a long, patchy career in Sudanese politics, and has held a varie [...] | 2010-01-20 10:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SU |
10KHARTOUM113 | POLITICAL PLURALISM IS THE REAL END GOAL OF THE APRIL [...] (C) Summary: Sir Derek Plumbly, the chairman of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC),told U.S. Special Envoy (SE) to Sudan General Scott Gration that political developments in Sudan have been gathering speed over the past several months, leading to a "frenzy of interest" on the groun [...] | 2010-02-22 12:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PINR KPKO ASEC SU CD |
10KHARTOUM115 | GHAZI DISCUSSES FEBRUARY 20 GOS-JEM AGREEMENT WITH SE [...] (C) Summary: In a February 21 meeting, Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salahedeen told SE Gration that the newly signed framework agreement between the GOS and JEM contained provisions for a ceasefire and prisoner release, the latter of which will begin on February 23. The agreement does not cod [...] | 2010-02-22 12:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS SU CD |
10KHARTOUM116 | RECEIPT OF SUPPLY ITEMS [...] (SBU) THE FOL ITEMS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED: SECTION A: AVL ITEMS: NSN QTY NOMEN REMARKS 8465015584476 8 SPE POUCH, COYOTE 8465015585105 14 SPE POUCH, COYOTE 8470014651857 5 THROAT PROTECTOR, COYOTE 8470014651864 2 SPE 847001465 [...] | 2010-01-21 09:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC KMSG |
10KHARTOUM117 | NEC DISCUSSES PREPARATIONS FOR APRIL ELECTIONS WITH SE [...] (C) Summary: Sudan's National Elections Commission (NEC) talked about plans and concerns for the upcoming national elections in a February 21 meeting with U.S. Special Envoy Scott Gration. The NEC Chairman, Deputy and two other commission members updated SE Gration on the status of logistical p [...] | 2010-02-22 12:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SU |
10KHARTOUM118 | COMMAND DIRECTED COMPULSORY URINALYSIS TESTING [...] IAW THE REF, SUBJ TESTING CONDUCTED AT 1200. 2. PERTINENT DATA: A. UNIT: MSGDET AMEMBASSY KHARTOUM, SUDAN B. HUMAN URINE SAMPLES - QTY 3 C. CO. HQ ASSIGNED BATCH NUMBER 9951 - 9952 D. DATE COLLECTED 20/21 JAN 10 E. DATE FORWARDED 21 JAN 10 F. MODE OF DELI [...] | 2010-01-21 11:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC KMSG |
10KHARTOUM119 | MBEKI DISCUSSES AUPD ROLE IN DARFUR, POST-2011 ISSUES WITH [...] (C) Summary: In a February 20 meeting with SE Gration, former South African President and current Chairman of the African Union High Level Panel on Darfur (AUPD) Thabo Mbeki expressed extreme dissatisfaction with the approach of Joint Chief Mediator Djibril BassolC),whom he criticized for havi [...] | 2010-02-22 12:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU |
10KHARTOUM121 | SE GRATION DISCUSSES DARFUR PEACE, SECURITY WITH JSR GAMBARI [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Sudan (GOS) appears eager to conclude an agreement at the Doha peace talks while rebel groups remain intransigent, UNAMID Joint Special Representative (JSR) Ibrahim Gambari told SE Gration on February 20. He expressed concern about lack of humanitarian access to c [...] | 2010-02-22 12:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS SU CD |
10KHARTOUM122 | CPA DAY CELEBRATIONS IN YAMBIO [...] Summary: On January 19, the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) and Government of National Unity (GNU) hosted the fifth anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in Yambio, Western Equatoria. Unlike the previous years' celebrations in Malakal and Wau, there were no reports of se [...] | 2010-01-24 08:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL SU |
10KHARTOUM123 | SE GRATION MEETS HEAD OF CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES [...] (C) Summary: In a February 20 meeting, the Head of the Center for Strategic Studies Sayeed el-Khatib told U.S. Special Envoy Gration and Charge d'Affaires that recent discussions in Juba were fruitful and should help facilitate a planned meeting between Presidents Bashir and Kiir. He said a hig [...] | 2010-02-22 13:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SU |
10KHARTOUM125 | SPLM Describes Successes in Negotiations [...] (C) Summary: In a February 21 meeting, Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) Vice President Riek Machar told Special Envoy Gration that the SPLM had reached agreement with the NCP for 40 additional seats in the National Assembly for the South, four for South Kordofan and two for Abyei. They had a [...] | 2010-02-22 16:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO SU |
10KHARTOUM126 | African Union High Level Implementation Panel for Sudan [...] Summary. Ambassadors and Charges from the P-5 met on January 23 with the African Union High Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) at the latter's request. AUHIP Chairman Thabo Mbeki presented the panel's proposed action plan for future involvement in Sudan and provided a detailed briefing on wh [...] | 2010-01-24 12:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SU OAU |
10KHARTOUM127 | Special Envoy Discusses Election Preparations with DSRG [...] (C) Summary: In a February 20 meeting with Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Jasbir Lidder, Special Envoy (SE) Scott Gration said strong United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) leadership is needed to meet current and future challenges, including support for the elec [...] | 2010-02-22 16:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO UN SU |
10KHARTOUM128 | HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR LANZER URGES SHIFT FROM RELIEF TO [...] (SBU) Summary: In a January 20 meeting with CDA, UN Deputy Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Toby Lanzer urged that the international community start shifting its focus in Darfur from humanitarian relief to recovery efforts. Noting the decrease in overall violence in Darfur over the past se [...] | 2010-01-24 14:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PREL SU |
10KHARTOUM129 | (U) Vice President Taha Tells Special Envoy Impasse on [...] (C) Summary: In a February 21 meeting, Second Vice President Ali Osman Taha told Special Envoy Gration that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) parties had resolved the dispute over the census, giving the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) 40 additional seats, as well as an addition [...] | 2010-02-22 16:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PBTS KDEM KPKO SU |
10KHARTOUM130 | CHADIAN REBELS TEST-FIRE NEWLY RECEIVED HEAVY WEAPONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Chadian rebels test-fired newly received heavy weapons outside the area of Mellit on January 22, according to both UN and rebel sources. No details have emerged where the weapons came from. The incident comes less than two weeks after Chad and Sudan signed agreements to end all s [...] | 2010-01-25 08:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PHUM PINR ASEC SU CD |
10KHARTOUM133 | KHARTOUM EAC CONVENED TO REVIEW TELEPHONE THREAT [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Embassy Khartoum's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) convened on February 28 to review a telephone threat received by the Embassy on Saturday, February 27. The caller warned of an attack against the Embassy and urged personnel to evacuate. RSO and GRPO updated EAC members on t [...] | 2010-02-28 15:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PTER AEMR SU |
10KHARTOUM136 | Sudanese Officials on Haiti [...] (U) In a series of meetings beginning January 20, Charge discussed the humanitarian relief effort in Haiti with high level Government of Sudan leaders, including Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salah al Deen Attabani. Pol-Econ Chief spoke with Tariq Abu Salih, Acting Director, Americas Divisio [...] | 2010-01-26 09:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PREL PHUM SU |
10KHARTOUM150 | SPLM ANNOUNCES NOMINATIONS FOR ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: From January 14-20, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Polit-Buro (PB) met to review candidate selections and nominations. While the discussions were reportedly tense at times, the PB has publicly announced their candidates for president, governors and the legislati [...] | 2010-01-28 06:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU |
10KHARTOUM152 | SPLM SHAKE-UP IN SOUTHERN KORDOFAN [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 24 Poloff met with Sadiq Mansour, Deputy Speaker of the Southern Kordofan Legislative Assembly, who stated that he and 31 other members of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in Southern Kordofan had recently been dismissed from the party by Abdel Azziz (SPLM [...] | 2010-01-28 11:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM MCAP SU |
10KHARTOUM158 | DARFUR ELECTIONS UPDATE, PART I: IN NORTH DARFUR'S GOVERNOR [...] (SBU) Summary: North Darfur Wali (Governor) Osman Mohamed Yousif Kibir is seeking to extend his rule as the National Congress Party (NCP) candidate in the upcoming April elections. Though generally unpopular even among his own Berti tribe, Kibir has extensive party resources at his disposal and [...] | 2010-01-31 08:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR SU |
10KHARTOUM160 | MISSERIYA BUILDING PERMANENT STRUCTURES IN ABYEI [...] (SBU) In a conversation with Poloff on January 26, Mark Rutgers, United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) Head of Office for Sector VI (Abyei),stated that members of the Misseriya tribe are constructing large permanent structures in five separate locations in the Abyei area without required per [...] | 2010-01-31 09:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO MOPS SMIG SU |
10KHARTOUM182 | ELECTIONS UPDATE: NCP CONCLUDES NOMINATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 27, the official nomination period for Sudan's April 2010 national elections concluded with a mostly full slate of National Congress Party (NCP) nominees in all twenty five states of the country. Despite this, the NCP chose not to nominate a candidate for the presiden [...] | 2010-02-01 05:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SU |
10KHARTOUM214 | Sudan: UNMIS SRSG Describes UN Elections Prep in Farewell to [...] Summary: Ashraf Qazi, the UN Secretary General's Special Representative (SRSG) and head of the UN Mission to Sudan (UNMIS),assembled Chiefs of Mission and top aid representatives on February 3 to say goodbye and to preview UN arrangements for the April 2011 elections. Qazi emphasized that th [...] | 2010-02-08 09:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO MOPS SU |
10KHARTOUM218 | SUDAN DDR FACING OPERATIONAL FLAWS AND FUNDING SHORTFALLS [...] (SBU) Summary: Participants from the Government of National Unity (GoNU),the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS),the UN, and international donors met on February 1 and 3 seeking to rectify shortcomings plaguing Sudan's disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) of former combatants p [...] | 2010-02-09 10:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO MCAP EAID SU |
10KHARTOUM222 | CONCEPT OF POPULAR CONSULTATIONS TAKING SHAPE [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 7 Poloff met with members of the steering committee for the popular consultations of Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile, who expressed unity across ethnic and party lines in their goal of taking greater power from the center to benefit their marginalized states. Attende [...] | 2010-02-09 13:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI SU |
10KHARTOUM234 | WEST DARFUR HEALTH SITUATION UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: Following the March 2009 non-governmental organizations (NGO) expulsions, the West Darfur State Ministry of Health (SMoH) and several national and international NGOs took over affected clinic facilities and continue to provide care. The SMoH has worked considerably to preserve co [...] | 2010-02-11 09:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
10KHARTOUM236 | SUDAN: CHINA POISED FOR KEY ROLE IN POST 2011 AGRICULTURE [...] (U) Summary: The People's Republic of China (PRC) is encouraging Chinese private enterprises to invest heavily in Sudan's agriculture sector, Lee "Ali" Wei Zheng, Commercial Officer for the Chinese Embassy, told PolEconOff February 3. Chinese investors currently have ten farms in China, and [...] | 2010-02-11 09:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAGR ECON EFIN EPET SU |
10KHARTOUM24 | NEW YEAR'S EVE ATTACKS IN AKOT, ATAR AND MARIAL LAU [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 31, there were three serious attacks in the areas of Atar in Upper Nile State, Akot in Lakes State and Marial Lau in Warrab State. The attacks appear to be unrelated and involve a wide range of actors to include the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and Lam Akol [...] | 2010-01-06 12:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS SU |