Opinion

By: Salim Mohamed Badat Every civilization is shaped by its philosophical foundations, and these influences permeate every aspect of life from education and governance to culture and morality. In our time, Western…

Rashid Abdel Rahim The landline rang in my office at the Supreme Council for Peace. The caller introduced himself as “Wad Al-Saem”, a retired officer and a classmate of Brigadier Arok Thon. He left his telephone number. When I…

Ramadan Ahmed In recent years, a growing debate has emerged within Western societies about the future of the modernist model that has shaped global political and economic life since the mid-twentieth century. Criticism no longer comes…

By: Ahmed Abdel Malik Al-Da‘ak “For the state to exist, it must wage war.” This is a condensed rendering of one of Hegel’s most controversial ideas about the emergence of the modern state. The phrase is not intended to glorify war or…

Dr Salwa Hassan Siddig I cannot remember a time when Sudanese society was in greater need of an organised body to care for the families of martyrs than it is today. In the past, such care was largely associated with the families of…

Muhannad Awad Mahmoud It was not an ordinary meeting in the African Union’s calendar, but a turning point that brought the Sudan file back into the continent’s institutional decision-making structures after a period in which multiple…

Mustafa Bashir Issa The popular resistance was not a fleeting episode in the course of this war, nor merely a spontaneous response to a call for mobilisation. Rather, it was the clearest expression of a decisive historical moment in which…

Mohamed Abdel Rahim Jawish Ambassador Ahmed Al-Tijani Sawar, Sudan's ambassador to Brazil, contacted me in response to my article “Mobile Payments… Now… Now.” I was genuinely pleased to see that our ambassador, from the western…

Dr Ammar Abakar Abdallah The declaration of Africa Water Sustainability Year 2026, alongside the World Bank Group’s “Mission Water” initiative, has made clear that water is no longer approached as a purely technical or…

Nu’man Yousif Mohammed Institutional Development and Microfinance Consultant Amid the humanitarian and economic crisis Sudan has faced since the outbreak of war in April 2023, the return of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and…