Sudan Horizon

Opinion

21 October: When the Fish Has Had Its Fill!

Mahjoub Fadl Badri We were pupils at Merowe Amiriya Intermediate School. It had four classrooms, a fully equipped laboratory, storerooms, administrative offices, a typewriter and a lush garden. The school provided all textbooks,…

Weep, My Beloved Homeland

Rashid Abdel Rahim The distinguished teacher, veteran musician, and gifted painter Sharhabil Ahmed was on his way home to Burri from his office at the Educational Publishing House of the Ministry of Education—as it was called before it…

Microfinance in Sudan (3): A Factory Reset

No’man Yousif Mohamed In the previous two articles, we examined Sudan’s microfinance crisis from two perspectives: the fragility of institutions and the erosion of their capacity, on the one hand, and the crisis of resources and…

Political Trials

Dr Abdel Azim Hassan – Lawyer Nothing threatens any state more than turning law from a safeguard for rights and freedoms into an instrument for settling political scores. Since the colonial era, most governments that…