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140 thE sudan handbook owned firm, Sudapet, with five per cent. The crude oil from these fields, marketed as ‘Nile Blend’, has a ...

fRom slaVEs to oil 141 perceptions of a lower likelihood of discoveries. It is risky to look to the new blocks to reverse Sudan’ ...

142 thE sudan handbook of oil reserves near the border, they have questioned the low prices received for some shipments of oil ( ...

fRom slaVEs to oil 143 Sudan following the Referendum raises the possibility that renewed civil war could disrupt operations, th ...

144 thE sudan handbook Half of the net revenue from oil produced in the south is supposed to be transferred to the GoSS. The cen ...

fRom slaVEs to oil 145 to well over 20 per cent in late 2006. These were concentrated in three large banks, particularly Omdurma ...

146 thE sudan handbook prosperous capital has boosted demand for consumer products as well. Around 38 per cent of import spendin ...

fRom slaVEs to oil 147 14 per cent of GDP in 2006. Although rising oil production and inter- national prices finally began to co ...

148 thE sudan handbook could bring oil revenues down for Sudan. Much of the oil, as we have seen, is relatively poor in quality, ...

149 9. Sudan’s Fragile State, 1956–1989 PEtER WoodWaRd Sudan’s independence on 1 January 1956 was the outcome of a complex strug ...

150 thE sudan handbook Multi-party Democracy, 1953–1958 The shortcomings of the system were apparent even before indepen- dence. ...

sudan’s fRaGilE statE, 1956–1989 151 Muhammad Ahmad al-Mahdi. In the twentieth century his posthumous son Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi ...

152 thE sudan handbook of the Islamic networks in the north to support the emergence of party leaders of note. The very limited ...

sudan’s fRaGilE statE, 1956–1989 153 With the situation still unresolved and national politics in disarray Sudan suffered its fi ...

154 thE sudan handbook problems of political representation and disparity in economic develop- ment. There was also an attempt t ...

sudan’s fRaGilE statE, 1956–1989 155 included new opportunities in mechanized agriculture in the rain-watered areas of the east ...

156 thE sudan handbook on the railway trade union, with its headquarters in Atbara north of Khartoum, and was considered one of ...

sudan’s fRaGilE statE, 1956–1989 157 number of reforms intended to make a break with the country’s experi- ences since independe ...

158 thE sudan handbook executive presidency. Presented as a necessary reform to bring decisive- ness to government, this was to ...

sudan’s fRaGilE statE, 1956–1989 159 leader of the Umma Party, and Hassan al-Turabi, the head of the Muslim Brotherhood. Those s ...