.... Why the Islamic Revolution Ended: The Regional Politics of Sudan since 1989 Ioannis Mantzikos After Omar al-­Bashir seized power in Sudan with a military coup in June 1989, Hassan al-­Turabi was imprisoned in Kobar along with a number of prominent Sudanese...

.... The NIF core is a competent cadre of men who have an agenda, the pur- suit of which has killed millions of Sudanese and uprooted and destroyed the lives of millions more. While their agenda is radically ideological, it is equally about personal power and enrichment. They are not at all suicidal...

..., the Sudanese government unleashed a military campaign against the civilian population in the Darfur region. Aerial bombardments, rape, abduction, mass execution, and the destruction of food and water sources have become signature tactics of the Janjaweed and the Sudanese Armed Forces. The Fur, Zaghawa...

... invitees who sent us congratulatory messages and prom- ised to visit us when they are able to do so in the future. I salute the freedom fighters from all over the northern Sudan who joined the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) and are still yearning for true peace, justice, and democracy...

... concept of governance and its viability in the light of recent events, namely, the election of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algeria and the ousting of Hassan al-Turabi as speaker of the Sudanese parliament, which combined to make 1999 a significant year...

.... In September 2004 the Bush administration publicly charged the Sudanese government with orchestrating a systematic genocide, a charge that the US government did not make when a similar slaughter was occurring in Rwanda in 1994 and 1995. The ongo- ing horrors in Darfur have been well documented...

..., both Iran and al Qaeda and their Sudanese connection were involved in Somalia under the saying, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” A crucial aspect of foreign Islamic involvement in Somalia deals with the Sudanese Islamic imperative. As mentioned, since late 1992 Sudan and Iran had...

... of Lanyi, close to the town of Lui. Homes destroyed. 12 January—A bombing raid in Upper Nile killed three people. Last year, nearly one hundred innocent Sudanese were killed in bombings, according to figures compiled by several...

... of 32.6 million people, has been the scene of intermittent conflict. An estimated 2 million people have died from war-related causes and famine in southern Sudan, while mil- lions more have been displaced. The Sudanese conflict, Africa’s longest- running...

... (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991); “Identity Factor in the Sudanese Confl ict,” in Confl ict in Multi-Ethnic Societies (Washington, DC: Foreign Service Institute, 1989); “Negotiating a Hidden Agenda: Sudan’s Confl ict of Identities,” in Elusive Peace: Negotiating an End to Civil Wars, ed. I...

..., its obvious ally in the region would be the NIF regime in Sudan or the Sudanese-backed Eritrean Islamic Jihad. The Sudanese regime did back regional extremist groups and international terrorist organizations, but there was no apparent relationship between the NIF...

.... Iran and al Qaeda An equally pertinent issue that the commission discussed is the relationship between Iran and al Qaeda. That relationship seems more substantive and intriguing than the minimal one between Iraq and the terrorist group. The commission noted that “[Sudanese hard-line leader...

... (TWRA), run by a Sudanese national with ties to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, convicted of masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. TWRA was reported to have raised up to $350 million from Islamic countries and other sources between 1992 and 1995 to support the Bosniacs’ war effort.7...

..., airlifting African Union troops to the Sudanese crisis region of Darfur, and training Iraqi security forces, both inside and outside of 6  Mediterranean Quarterly: Summer 2007 the country. In addition to all these operations and missions, NATO provided humanitarian relief to Pakistan after...

... of Iranian, Sudanese, and Afghan volunteers and other external actors in fomenting and sustaining the violence in Algeria. However marginal these actors may have been in reality, they remain a focus of government concern, along with Islamist networks in Europe...

... incarnation can be traced to the work of Francis Deng, a for- mer Sudanese diplomat who served from 1994 to 2004 as the UN secretary- general’s special representative on internally displaced persons. It was in this role that he saw personally the results and consequences of conflict. He wit- nessed...

... oriented agenda, its obvious ally in the region would be the NIF regime in Sudan or the Sudanese-backed Eritrean Islamic Jihad. The Suda- nese regime did back regional extremist groups and international terrorist organizations, but there was no apparent relationship between the NIF and al-Ittihad...

... has announced plans to build a mega-­hydropower plant in Benshangul Gumuz state, close to the Ethiopian-­Sudanese border.47 Ethiopia believes that implementing the proj- ect is critical to addressing its own severe energy shortage and assisting the country in becoming a major electricity...

... one can hardly speak of a racial backlash. The media have occasionally reported incidents of violent acts committed against immigrants that seemed to have a racist motivation. In June 2008, for exam- ple, a Sudanese immigrant was reportedly beaten by three police officers, even though he...