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Are We Going to Find the Key?
Muawad Mustafa Rashid The brotherhood is an extremely hungry power. Its membership is famished! Their dreams, plans, and ambitions are to be running around trying to abort the peace process. Unfortunately, they still have an indirect influence on our policy. Don’t they? The transitional caretaker government seems to have no potential to change Sudan’s political landscape. Because of this reason precisely, the country’s image has become blurry. Years ago, we stressed that the timing of…
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Al-Burhan’s Visit to London and the Banality System
Mohamed Saad Kamil The prominent Russian playwright Anton Chekhov who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time was once asked: How do the failed communities look like? He answered that in the failed communities there are one thousand foolish against only one superior, adding that in the failed communities there are one thousand clumsy words against only one conscious word. Accordingly, the majority of the people remain always idiots who…
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Sudan and the Sails of Hope (1)
Dr. Elshafie Khidir Saeid During the past two weeks, Sudan has witnessed three important events that filled the sails of hope on the ship of the December 2018 revolution, which is still sailing unsteadily in an atmosphere of storms and whirlwinds, searching anxiously for a safe harbor. The first event was the statement issued by the coordinating body of the Khartoum Resistance Committees on the 24th of August. After reaffirming the loyalty of the Resistance…
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Military Transitional Government
Omer B. Abu Haraz In all successful and stable governance in many countries, especially the developed, governance is normally fully civilian & democratic. The military is always far away from governance. In all of those countries, the constitutional role of the army is the protection of the borders and the safeguarding of the citizen’s safety and security. Almost all ministers of defense are civilians. Therefore, the normal situation is a civilian government and the exception…
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The Season of Migration to the North
Osman Mirghani In my recent visit to Cairo, I met with several Sudanese community officials and was shocked by horrible figures which indicate that the Sudanese crisis is escalating tremendously. I learned that there are more than 4 million Sudanese who are seeking refuge in Egypt, most of them are not just crossing tourists, but they are looking for permanent migration accompanying their families. About 22 thousand Sudanese students are studying in Egyptian governmental universities…
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Intelligence: The Backbone of the Nation
Al-Sammani Awadallah National intelligence is considered a condition for the sustainability of any country and that is through utilizing the economic, political, military, and diplomatic powers. But concentrating on the military and security power remains the most appropriate mean to preserve national security. If the usage of diplomacy aims at mobilizing the allies, confronting the threats, activating the economic power, and preserving an active army, the usage of intelligence organs aims at investigation, data collection,…
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Malnutrition and the School Meal: Alarm Bell
Muawad Mustafa Rashid Specialized reports revealed the existence of more than 6 million children in Sudan suffering from hunger and needing at least school meals to curb the drop-out phenomenon, besides reducing the rate of stunted growth among school kids. Globally nearly half of all deaths in children under 5 are attributed to nutrition, undernutrition puts children at greater risk of dying from common infections, increases the frequency and severity of such infections, and delays…
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Islam in China
Mohamed Saad Kamel In a mosque close to our residence in the Chinese capital, Beijing, I went to perform Friday prayers to see with my own eyes the beauty of these people. After the end of a prayer, one of the Egyptians told me that Muslims in China should set an example for us because they do not speak Arabic, and despite this, they are regular in their prayers and worship and do so with…
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Sudan’s Revolution and the Digital Revolution (2)
Dr. Elshafie Khidir Saeid Just as the digital revolution and its means of social communication played an essential role in the outbreak and victory of the popular movements in many countries, such as the Arab Spring revolutions and the December revolution in Sudan, counter-revolutionary circles use them to obstruct or reverse the path of change and to liquidate its revolutionary content, especially during the critical moments leading to social conflicts that always erupt when the…
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Expected Scenario
Omer B. Abu Haraz It is now clear that the playground and its pitch are both hardly conducive to a sustained smooth transition to democratic civilian governance in Sudan. In a likely unfortunate step the military component, after running out of patience, will opt for appointing a prime minister and a cabinet from widely controversial persons and most probably lean to opponents of the December Revolution’s original incubator, the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC),…