Sudan Horizon

Opinion

The Dalgo Sedition

Rashid Abdel Rahim Since the outbreak of the war, Northern Sudan has remained a fixed point in the rebellion's rhetoric and imagination. They have repeatedly threatened to invade and occupy it, with their first attack targeting…

Sudanese Salafis and the “Battle of Dignity”

Hassan Abdelhamid It is an established fact—disputed only by the obstinate or the conspiratorial—that the so-called “Battle of Dignity” against the Dagalo militia has involved Sudanese patriots defending the country’s dignity,…

Will Donald Trump Win a Nobel Prize for Destruction?

Mahjoub Fadl Badri The Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896, invented dynamite—an invention that proved useful in construction and mining, yet was also used in warfare. A French newspaper once mistakenly published…

Democracy: Our April Political Illusion

Mohamed Abdelrahim Jawish In November 1953, Sudan held its first legislative elections as part of the British colonial arrangements for independence. Ironically, at the time, Spain and Portugal—Britain’s neighbours in Europe—were…