Opinion

Dr. Salah Da‘aak On a quiet morning in the streets of Cairo, the Sudanese community was shaken by a painful piece of news: a young man stabbed his own brother to death over a minor family dispute. In one brief moment, the family lost two…

Dr Al-Dirdiri Mohamed Ahmed Not every “independence narrative” succeeds in becoming a lasting foundation for democracy and national renaissance. Many post-colonial societies saw their national narratives disintegrate at the dawn of…

Sanaa Hamad I look with concern at the future of this bel oved country—rich in its diversity and resources—yet, like most post-colonial states, floundering in a web of crises that have shackled, crippled and torn it apart, rendering it a…

Dr Al-Dardiri Mohamed Ahmed Before comparing the various aspects of the independence narratives in India and Sudan, let us first compare the elites that forged those narratives. India’s struggle for independence took a long, complex…

Dr al-Dirdiri Mohamed Ahmed Recently, fears have grown that the “Quad” will return to the scene to impose its old-new conditions and restore the militia and its captains to power. This came in the wake of the Quad's statement issued on 12…

Rashid Abd al-Rahim Yesterday marked the anniversary of the October Revolution, which changed the rule of General Ibrahim Abboud. It was a revolution suffused with chants and songs by leftist poets and singers, foremost among them the…

Ambassador Atta al-Manan Bakhit The Generation Z revolution in Madagascar has achieved what other comparable uprisings in Africa have not—perhaps because the goal was clear to Madagascar’s youth: the departure of President Andry…

Al-Obeid A. Murawih The war that broke out in Sudan on 15 April 2023 was not born on that day — nor even in the days and weeks immediately beforehand. It was the product of planning and arrangements by well-known international forces,…

Muhannad Awad Mahmoud On 25 August 2025 I published an article entitled “Washington between Relief and Accountability — Does the United States Hold the Keys to Peace in Sudan?”, in which I posed a fundamental question: can Washington…

Dr Hassan Isa al-Talib The chronic problem of the Central Bank of Sudan, which has plagued it since its establishment in 1960, does not lie with the governor or with changing the current office-holders; rather, it lies in the way it…