Opinion

By Rashid Abdel Rahim Is Al-Nour Qubba’s move to join the government a defection from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), or is it part of an agreement with the government? To answer this, we can compare the peace agreements the…

Dr Al-Haytham Al-Kindi Yousif In our previous discussion, after diagnosing the “rentier state” and identifying the structural mechanisms through which it resists change, we now move from defining these mechanisms to addressing…

Dr Huwaida Shabbo Amid the turbulent transformations unfolding in Sudan, economic reform is no longer a theoretical luxury to be debated in seminars or consumed in official rhetoric. It has become a matter of survival, tied directly to the…

Nu’man Yousif Mohammed It is no longer possible to treat the crisis of microfinance guarantees as a temporary malfunction or a passing disruption that can be resolved through procedural fixes. What has now emerged is a…

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…