Opinion

Mahjoub Fadil Badri Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces, described his exit from the General Command headquarters (which was besieged at the time) as a purely military…

Ambassador Atta Al-Mannan Bakhit The Ugandan Electoral Commission’s decision to announce President Yoweri Museveni’s victory for a seventh term was hardly surprising. He has continued to win ever since he seized power in 1986;…

Rashid Abdelrahim Suddenly, high-level developments have erupted in South Sudan. The opposition, led by Riek Machar, ordered its forces two days ago to move towards the capital. The order was issued by the Deputy Chief of Staff, Wesley…

Brigadier (Police, Ret.) Omar Mohammed Othman The historic agreement between Syria’s transitional government and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), signed yesterday (Sunday) by Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa, represents a unique…

Mohannad Awad Mahmoud Since Sudan lost the bulk of its oil revenues following South Sudan's secession in 2011, gold has become the country’s most important source of foreign currency and, in some years, the largest component of its export…

Mostafa Bashir Issa At moments of profound historical turning points, neutrality is neither a moral nor a political position; it often becomes a form of abdication. Sudan today is living through one of the most dangerous such moments,…

Rashid Abdel Rahim The world around us is in turmoil—so what will become of Sudan? And where does it stand amid major transformations now coming into view, while we have been living through a war that has dragged on for years?…

Dr Ismail Satti After the state allowed individuals to engage in gold prospecting—on the assumption that this would act as a lever for the national economy and compensate for the loss of oil revenues, most of which went to the South…

By Walid Dalil ** Managing government subsidies via smart card means using a card (such as a smart ID card) to direct aid and subsidized commodities directly to beneficiaries. This reduces waste and ensures that subsidies…

Mohannad Awad Mahmoud In July 2025, we published an article examining the flight of Sudanese capital since 2019—how it gradually exited the country, then accelerated sharply with the outbreak of war. Economic activity shifted abroad, the…