- The Sudanese President's government reshuffle following the imposition of a state of emergency on 22 February has been greeted with mixed reactions. The most outstanding feature of the changes...
- Outside an unmarked building in a residential area of Khartoum, Um Mohammed crouched down with her head between her knees unable to stand any longer. She and a few...
- Permanently dressed in his army fatigues when seen in public, President Field Marshall Omar Hassan Al-Bashir has downed his civilian attire and has rolled up his sleeves to begin...
- As the world awaited President Omar Al-Bashir's speech on Friday, frantic negotiations resulted in a last-minute change of direction. Intelligence Chief Salah Abdullah Gosh had been told to announce...
- The decision to dissolve the government, the Council of Ministers and declare a state of emergency will come as little comfort for the hundreds of thousands of protestors who...
- In a country with no nightclubs or bars, strolling along the River Nile or picnicking in Khartoum's parks used to be the usual form of entertainment for young people...
- Signs that the pace of the protests in Sudan is slowing down became apparent this week when a call for mass demonstrations on Monday went virtually unheeded. This has...
- The decision by Sudan's Intelligence Services to release protestors arrested during the ongoing demonstrations across the country may come as a surprise to human rights organisations and detainees alike....
- A prominent feature of the revolution in Sudan has now become a target of the on-going protests across the country. The noticeable increase in the nation's religiosity and the...
- A month after a spontaneous protest in the Northern Sudan of Atbara, known as the "City of Iron and Fire," morphed into a series of organised demonstrations, there are...
- As the year closes and a new one begins, it is clear that Sudan is in the worst economic and political crisis it has ever experienced during its independence....
- The long-awaited return of Al Sadiq Al-Mahdi passed without the expected euphoria partly because of the death of his brother the night before. Descending from a plane at Khartoum...
- The surprise visit to Syria by Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir to meet his counterpart, Bashar Al-Assad, has raised more questions than it answers. Why was there no official announcement?...
- If the 2018 election law was supposed to unite the opposition and the government in agreement about the forthcoming elections in 2020, the bill which was passed last week...
- These days, predicting Sudan's political and economic prospects is perhaps a job best left to speculators and fortune tellers. The plethora of economic woes and political strife has become...
- In the heart of the Sudanese capital's Omdurman Wad Nubawi district sits Sarah Abdullah Abdurrahman Nugallah, one of the most powerful women in Sudanese politics. Nugallah is Secretary General...
- This week's sentencing of one of the most powerful intelligence officers in Sudan has not only sent shockwaves through the ranks of the National Security and Intelligence Service (NISS)...
- A day after Sudan announced plans to reduce the size of its government by over 50 per cent the extent of the economic deadlock has become clear. With the...
- Just fifteen days after President Salva Kiir of South Sudan told the world in Addis Ababa that his political rival, Riek Machar, could never again be part of the...
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan's emphatic first round victory in Turkey's snap election is being regarded in the country as much as a resounding defeat for a lacklustre opposition as the...
- It is by no means certain who will be the occupant of Ankara's Presidential Palace come Monday morning. There are no predictions by election pundits of a landslide win...
- This week's cabinet decision to put forward a new election law appears to support the view that some members of Sudan's ruling National Congress Party (NCP) are planning to...
- The Sudanese are not generally known for peddling conspiracy theories. However, during this severe economic crisis many elaborate claims and counter claims about the causes and consequences of the...
- The arrest of 16 prominent businessmen on charges of corruption and embezzlement may have made the media headlines in Sudan, but under the country's current "illegal wealth" laws there...
- Despite the growing domestic disquiet, the Sudanese government has again confirmed it has no plans to pull its estimated 10,000 troops out of Yemen. The calls for withdrawal have...
- The sacking of Sudan's Foreign Minister, Professor Ibrahim Ghandour, does not appear to be a surprise for many within the Sudanese diplomatic corps, unlike the rest of the country,...
- For young people in Sudan, it is not difficult to understand the link between learning English and ending up dead in the Mediterranean Sea. That may sound far-fetched, but...
- Last month's shock reappointment of Salah Abdallah Mohamed Saleh, known as Gosh, as the head of Sudan's National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) was a snap decision that stunned...
- As Sudan's ambassador returns to Cairo today after a two-month absence, the precise reasons for Abdel-Mahmood Abdel-Halim's dramatic withdrawal remains unexplained. Likewise, there is no available information on the...
- On 13 November last year, a report was released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the state of consumer subsidies in Sudan. It received scant media coverage but...
- The irony of the presence of Egyptian troops gathering on the Eritrean-Sudanese border over its objection to Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam is not lost on legal experts aware of Egypt's...
- With the recall of Sudan's Ambassador from Egypt, the closure of the Eritrean Border and a recent visit by Turkey's President in which a Turkish takeover of a strategic...