After posting yesterday I read this today on the UN boundary commission's frustration re Ethiopia/Eritrea
Warning of new Horn of Africa war : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6982244.stm
and note from a Guardian ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/st...164165,00.html ) post that both Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys & Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed are in attendance at the Asmara congress.

While I am posting links here are a few more that may be of interest to those following this area.
Good map of oil producing areas in Sudan
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/sudan1103/2.htm
and more data on oil production
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/Sudan/pdf.pdf
Juba Post comments on referendum (NB this is in english so most of the comments - predominantly pro independance - are from the diaspora and may not be representative of the population as a whole)
http://www.k2-media.org/jubapost/go/...6&recordID=116
and this article on concerns re an impending north/south demarcation dispute
http://www.k2-media.org/jubapost/go/...=6&recordID=93
Sudan Interim constitution in english
http://www.mpil.de/shared/data/pdf/i...ic_version.pdf