Opinion

Dr Abdelazim Hassan – Lawyer The war ignited by the Janjaweed militia was not a war against people alone; it was a war against the State itself. Alongside killing, looting and displacement, the militia deliberately burned public…

Dr Inas Mohamed Ahmed In ancient times, the world had no specific, clear or universally agreed rules governing the exchange of prisoners. Such exchanges were conducted according to the customs of each nation or people and in accordance…

Adel Al-Rifai Abu Al-Hassan In some cultures, there is an expression: “State the obvious.” At first glance, there is nothing problematic about this phrase. All sound thinking begins with evident facts. The problem arises when the…

Dr Al-Sadiq Ali Haj Al-Sheikh In times of stability, the exchange rate is viewed as an economic indicator that rises and falls according to market movements. In times of crisis, however, it becomes a measure of the state’s…

Dr Mohamed Awad Mohamed Metwally African Peoples and the Peoples of the Diaspora When the state raises the “customs dollar” exchange rate from 3,517 Sudanese pounds to 3,743 pounds—an increase of 6.4 per cent in less than a…

Rashid Abdelrahim — News Egypt competed in the current World Cup and delivered a respectable, entertaining and clean performance. Egypt’s excellence came at a time when the standards of the current global football tournament—the…

Dr Al-Khidr Haroun African Peoples and the Peoples of the Diaspora Sudanese intellectuals warmly welcomed a lecture delivered in Khartoum in the 1960s by the Kenyan Muslim thinker Ali Mazrui entitled The Multiple Marginality of…

Ambassador Abdel Mahmoud Abdel Halim From my window at dawn, I watched the disc of the sun struggling to emerge from the grip of a tropical cloud that had closed around it. Gradually, too, its rays began attempting to climb the…

Abdulrahman Abdullah Mohammed When we examine the outcomes of some of history’s great revolutions—the French, Russian and Iranian Revolutions—we encounter a recurring paradox: at some point, revolutionary leaders slip from the…

Ambassador Khalid Musa Dafalla It was a troubled night. The faces of the dead passed before me like clouds, as I drifted between sleep and wakefulness, until I realised that it was a dream from the realm of signs, where the ascents of the…