Opinion

Habib Allah Abdel Wahab It is well understood among practitioners and observers of foreign trade that banning or restricting the import of certain goods is often a positive trade policy. In most cases, it aims to support domestic…

Fouad Qabbani Sudan is currently going through an extremely difficult phase, marked by tension in many areas. These conditions do not allow for random, individualistic decision-making—especially on matters affecting people’s livelihoods,…

By Rashid Abdel Rahim Is Al-Nour Qubba’s move to join the government a defection from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), or is it part of an agreement with the government? To answer this, we can compare the peace agreements the…

Dr Al-Haytham Al-Kindi Yousif In our previous discussion, after diagnosing the “rentier state” and identifying the structural mechanisms through which it resists change, we now move from defining these mechanisms to addressing…

Dr Huwaida Shabbo Amid the turbulent transformations unfolding in Sudan, economic reform is no longer a theoretical luxury to be debated in seminars or consumed in official rhetoric. It has become a matter of survival, tied directly to the…

Nu’man Yousif Mohammed It is no longer possible to treat the crisis of microfinance guarantees as a temporary malfunction or a passing disruption that can be resolved through procedural fixes. What has now emerged is a…

Dr Hassan Mohammed Salih On 21 April 1997, the Sudanese government signed what became known as the Khartoum Peace Agreement with the South Sudan Independence Movement led by Riek Machar, alongside the Sudanese African Parties Union, the…

Mahjoub Fadl Badri A profound piece of wisdom and a solemn phrase that echoes in the ears of students at all stages—“At the time of examination, one is either honoured or humiliated”—until one eventually realises that life, in all its…

Ali Ahmed Daggash At times, one feels disheartened by what some websites and online newspapers publish—to the point of contemplating abandoning them altogether. Many such platforms circulate a great deal of trivial content that hardly…

Ambassador Jamal Mohammed Ibrahim (Translated from Al-Araby Al-Jadeed – 23 April 2026) (1) Several observations are difficult to miss for anyone following the repercussions of the American–Israeli aggression against Iran, and the…