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Renew Traditional Friendship and Elevate China-Sudan Strategic Partnership to New Height
By : Mr. Xu Jian, Charge d’Affaires of Chinese Embassy in Sudan 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of China-Sudan strategic partnership. It is a milestone in the history of China-Sudan relations. In September 2024, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with President of the Sovereign Council of Sudan Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan in Beijing. Meeting again since 2022, the two heads of state reached important consensus, steering the course and drawing up a blueprint for the future…
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Strategic Sanctions: The War on Sudanese Sovereignty Through Law
By Sabah Al-Makki, Assistant Editor Writing from within the storm. Sanctions are no longer accountability tools—they have become instruments of subjugation. In Sudan’s case, the real offense is not aggression, but the refusal to collapse. This article examines how international law is being strategically repurposed to punish sovereignty and protect proxies in a global order increasingly driven by narrative warfare. From Accountability to Control: Sanctions as Subjugation For over three decades, U.S. sanctions against Sudan…
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Sudan and the Sails of Hope (2)
Dr. Elshafie Khidir Saeid In our last article, we said Sudan has witnessed three important events that filled the sails of hope on the ship of the December 2018 revolution, and we discussed the first event which was the call by the Khartoum Resistance Committees the last August for a meeting of all political spectrum, right and left, except the Islamic parties of the Ingaz regime as well as those groups and names that supported…
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Differences Cost Will Be High
Omer B. Abu Haraz Colonel Jackson was one of the famous British leaders during the British colonization of Sudan (1898 – 1956). Citing some of his words about Sudan and its people just before the departure of the English from Sudan after granting it independence. He said Sudan is a great country with huge natural resources, if well managed Sudan would be a great country with a strong economy. Despite their good traits and observed…
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Enough Is Enough!
Osman Mirghani In an interview conducted by Al-Jazeera Mubashir TV Channel, Wajdi Saleh, who is a leading figure in the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC), said that they do not have the desire to rule Sudan and that nobody should think that they want the exclusivity of being in power for the remaining period of the transition in case of formation a civilian government. This saying is very strange because if the political parties…
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The Outcomes of Al-Burhan’s Visit to New York
Al-Sammani Awadallah The local stances on the participation of the President of the Sovereignty Council, 1st Lt. Gen. Abdul Fattah Al-Burhan to New York and his addressing the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly were varied. One of the most controversial local stances is the speech delivered by Al-Burhan which included several Sudanese issues. In this regard, Al-Burhan said that they supported the tripartite committee i.e. UN, AU, and IGAD but it took the…
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Environmental Forum: A Step Forward in the Right Direction
Muawad Mustafa Rashid Introduction: With the growth of catastrophic environmental phenomena worldwide and the effects of climate change on society, especially in recent years, represented by floods, rising temperatures, fluctuations in rain rates, and other effects, what prompts us to air a sincere national appeal to avoid the certain losses which will inevitably affect all of us. Allah the Almighty granted our country with rich natural resources that are among the first in the global…
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Sail for a Shared Future
Speech by Chinese Ambassador Ma Xinmin at the Reception Celebrating the 73rd Anniversary of the Founding of the PRC (September 27, 2022) ‐ We are gathered here today to celebrate the 73rd anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Let me first extend, on behalf of the Chinese Embassy in Sudan, a warm welcome to all of you here and say a big thank-you to all the friends who have cared…
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A Pragmatic Proposal
Omer B. Abu Haraz The gap between the military component and the original Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) is widening. The military has the physical power and the FFC’s popular power of mobilizing the streets together with international support. The newly formed FFC – Charter – took full advantage of the growing rift between FFC and the military created by the equivocal demand of FFC to restructure the armed forces. The FFC – Charter…
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FFC Scrimmage!
Osman Mirghani What is going on in the Sudanese political arena is not more than a scrimmage within the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) as it is divided into two opposing camps each claiming that it is the hero and the other is the traitor. Between these camps, the Sudanese people are suffering a lot as they are dying without hospitals or doctors, or medicine. Children are dropping out of school after their families…