The Middle East Situation

The bloodless army takeover in Sudan has ended 16 years of increasingly idiosyncratic and unpopular rule by ousted President Ja'far Numeiri, and the transition into the new era has so far seen no abrupt changes of orientation. The country's massive problems however remain - the chronic and worsening economic crisis, the rebellion in the South, and the search for a form of government that might reconcile the country's conflicting political and religious...