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Resolving Port Sudan Water Supply Crisis… Better Late than Never
Muawad Mustafa Rashid Last month, Prime Minister of the Transitional Government, Dr. Abdallah Hamdok directed the formation of a committee to resolve the water supply crisis in Port Sudan. According to the directive, the ministerial committee should work out an emergency plan to provide potable water to Port Sudan city, besides setting a long-term plan and presenting a specific future vision to bring an end to the suffering of the citizens there. The said committee…
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Pro-Lifting of Subsidies
Mohammed Saad Kamil A failed state means a government that became unable to provide positions and basic responsibilities for a sovereign country e.g. military defense, imposing laws, justice, education, economic stability, etc. The common characteristics of the failed states include continuous civil violence, corruption, crime, poverty, illiteracy, and the following apart the main infrastructure. Any state, even if it is working perfectly, is subject to failure if it missed its creditability and the confidence of…
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Hamdok Needs Full Support
Ahmed Hassan Hurga The first important challenge facing the transitional stage is the achieving of comprehensive peace in all parts of the country in general and war-affected areas in particular. So that the transitional government should endorse the peace agreements with the armed groups in the Darfur region and South Kordofan and the Blue Nile area because there are previous experiments of missing confidence between armed movements in these areas and the former government of…
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A mechanism to implement the Prime Minister’s initiative
Dr. Elshafie Khidir Saeid The Prime Minister’s initiative states that a mechanism composed of all parties agreed to the initiative will be formed to follow up on its implementation and to strengthen the political alliance between the various components of the transitional period. My understanding of the term “all parties”, and I hope I am correct, is that it includes forces outside the Freedom and Change Alliance and the Transitional Period Partners Council, which believe…
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GERD .. Endless Crisis .. French/Algerian Intervention!
Al-Sammani Awadallah The disputes over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) are escalating especially after Addis Ababa started the second filling of the dam without reaching a legal agreement. The UNSC failed to stop the Ethiopian step of the second filling or changing the stances of Sudan and Egypt over what could be done to continue the talks towards reach a tripartite agreement. The disputes expanded between the downstream and upstream states a matter that…
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Recovery of the Sudanese Economy
Neimat AlNaiemneimatalnaiem@yahoo.com The visiting delegations to Sudan these days to invest or to build Strategic partnerships is considered one of the indicators that Sudan, following removing its name from the list of States Sponsoring Terrorism, will open a new chapter to create good relations with the world community. One of the important requirements for the coming era is the full counseling of Sudan’s external debts. Sudan leaders were in Paris -France last May 2021 to…
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A Presidential System Suits the New Sudan
Omer B. Abu Haraz The dramatic event which enshrouded the political scene in Tunisia last week enhances my argument that the absolute parliamentary system of governance does not suit many countries, Sudan is right in the middle of them. Tunisia lawmakers excelled when they opted in the new constitution after the revolution of 2011 for a smart hybrid system of governance of presidential and parliamentary. A system that has dual general elections –one for a…
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Turmoil in Tunisia and Sudan’s Transition
Osman Mirghani Last week the Sudanese were very attentive to the developments in Tunisia as they consider it as the pioneering state in the uprisings against totalitarian regimes.The Tunisian President Kais Saied froze Parliament for a month and said he was taking over executive authority, promising that he would not turn into a dictator and rejected accusations he had staged a coup. His actions appear to have widespread popular support in Tunisia, where years of…
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Al-Hilu and Abdulwahid … Fighting the Windmills!
Mohammed Saad Kamil One of the most famous stories in the book is Don Quixote’s fight with the windmills. He sees some windmills and thinks they are giants. Don Quixote battles the windmills because he believes that they are ferocious giants. He thinks that after defeating them — all “thirty or forty” of them! — he will be able to collect the spoils and the glory as a knight. However, when he charges the “giants,”…
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Formulating National Strategy to Confront Hate Speech Top Priority
Muawad Mustafa Rashid Introduction: In May 2019, the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech were launched highlighting that a disturbing groundswell of xenophobia, racism, and intolerance is being observed around the world. Social media and other forms of communication are being exploited as platforms for bigotry. Public discourse is being weaponized for political gain with incendiary rhetoric that stigmatizes and dehumanizes minorities, migrants, refugees, women, and any so-called “other”. Hate speech…