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Few Sudanese support the notion that the ideals of the revolution should be abandoned, but most have surrendered to the reality that the desired civilian transitional rule is unlikely...
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Historians and political scientists who have followed recent events in Sudan closely will point to the irony of the current dispute between the military and protest groups over the...
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There are at least a dozen reasons, some fictitious, why Sudan's ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC) appears reluctant to give up power, but protest groups are becoming increasingly aware...
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If the walls of Sudan's presidential palace could speak, they would tell of a stark difference in the atmosphere of the talks between the Transitional Military Council (TMC) and...
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The agreement between the signatories to the Declaration for Freedom and Change and the Transitional Military Council in Khartoum has not been fleshed out in great detail, but the...
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There is an almost hysterical level of mistrust in Sudan which in the view of some observers is crippling the country's attempt to reach an agreement about its future....
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Here in Sudan, claims of responsibility for the downfall of the government of Omar Al-Bashir have become commonplace. On the dusty walls of buildings are graffiti-like writings proclaiming hashtags...
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Almost 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall which brought communism to an abrupt end in Europe, communism has emerged alive and flourishing in Sudan. After last...
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The events unfolding in Sudan are unprecedented. Tens of thousands of protestors have gathered for a fourth consecutive day outside the Armed Forces headquarters in the capital Khartoum demanding...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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?...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...