Opinion

Rashid Abdel Rahim What Did the Communist Party Gain from the Coup of 19 July 1971? The July coup was a genuine test of the philosophical and political principles upon which the Sudanese Communist Party claimed to be founded.…

Dr Al-Haytham Al-Kindi Yousif The transition from the ammunition box to the ballot box remains both a political imperative and the aspiration of a people exhausted by war. Judged against the present reality, however, such a…

Dr Ammar Abkar Abdalla Specialist in Water Resources, Integrated Water Resources Management, and Transboundary Water Cooperation While public attention in Sudan is focused on Nile water levels, the operation of the Grand Ethiopian…

Brigadier (Ret.) Omar Mohamed Osman When the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) announced that approximately 4.6 million Sudanese had returned to their areas of origin across nine states, many interpreted the news as…

By Mohannad Awad Mahmoud There is an uncomfortable truth that goes a long way towards explaining why every major international initiative aimed at resolving Sudan's crisis has faltered. These initiatives did not fail because…

By Fouad Qabbani The question occupying the minds of all Sudanese people today is: How can we rebuild Sudan? Sudan is a country endowed by God with resources and riches that many other nations lack. Yet the cycle of wars that…

By Adel Al-Rifai Abu Al-Hassan One of the principles that reflect sound judgement in management, economics and everyday life is prudence. In its broadest sense, prudence means acting with wisdom, foresight and good judgement,…

By Dr Inas Mohamed Ahmed Armed conflict is a social phenomenon that has accompanied the development of human civilisation since the dawn of history. In earlier times, warfare was governed by established customary rules recognised…

By Dr Jaafar Ahmed Khalifa This is a message addressed to the Ministry of Energy and its affiliated institutions, as well as to the Office of the Prime Minister in the Government of “Hope”. It follows the clarification issued by…

By Dr Mohammed Yousif Hassan Seventy years ago, the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt wrote a short play entitled The Trial over the Donkey’s Shadow. It tells the story of a doctor who hires a donkey on a scorching day. When the…