Opinion

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…

Dr Al-Haytham Al-Kindi Yousif In our previous articles in this series—A Critique of the Manufactured State and the Labyrinth of Elites—we diagnosed the “rentier state” as the structure that has shaped Sudan’s reality, and we discussed the…

Dr Marwa Fouad Qabbani The decision by the World Bank to link the resumption of its suspended programmes in Sudan to an assessment of the private sector and the Sudanese banking system sends a clear message: the post-war phase…

Dr Mohammed Awad Mohammed Metwally Sudan’s economy today is awakening to a harsh structural reality—one that admits no ambiguity and tolerates no half-measures. The administrative model that has prevailed for decades, rooted in a…

Mohand Awad Mahmoud In countries living on the brink of suffocation, events do not begin the day people take to the streets… they begin the day indicators are recorded in reports, and read by those who understand what recurring…

Dr Salah Da'aak During my recent visit to Omdurman, the journey was not merely a trip from Port Sudan to Khartoum; it was a passage into a space of deep reflection on a reality quietly taking shape before us. I entered the…

Rashid Abdel Rahim “Mandikoro matu sambala aki sori ikwani”— the voice of a simple southerner expressing his sorrow for northerners who died in the wars of the South. The meaning of what he sings is: “The northerners died…