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| 1997, March |
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| Sudanese People's Armed Forces were reported to be rounding up young men in Khartoum for obligatory military service. By the end of May, Pres. al-Bashir announced that all male secondary school leavers were subject to mandatory military service. By April, the Sudanese People's Liberation Army was in control of most of southern Sudan and was within 40 km of Juba, the government's major stronghold in the region. | 1 |
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| 1998, July 15 |
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| The Sudan People's Liberation Army, a separatist group, signed a three-month cease-fire with the government. In 1998 the U.S. sent 10,000 tons of food to fight ongoing famine in Sudan. | 2 |
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| Aug. 20 |
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| The U.S. destroyed a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Khartoum that was allegedly making chemical weapons. A retaliatory strike for U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, the cruise missile attack came in light of Sudanese ties with Iraq, repeatedly resistant to UN inspections for biological weapons. The U.S. postulated that the factory in Khartoum was financed by wealthy Islamic militant Osama bin Laden. | 3 |
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