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Press the “Reset” Button
Osman Mirghani The chance is still available for the transitional government to lead an urgent reform to the deteriorating situations to avoid the disastrous scenarios, but we should recognize that the chance will not last for long. The only available chance now to come out from the track that leads to the total collapse of the state is to press (RESET) button to prepare the country for a new status that benefits from the heinous…
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Juba New Peace Talks
Omer B. Abu Haraz The ongoing talks in Juba between the transitional government and SPLM/A (Al-Hilu faction) look promising and are expected to result in a different peace agreement. The framework draft presented by Al-Hilu is well-prepared but it includes sticky and controversial issues. It did not consider the expected aspirations of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) of realizing the Juba Peace Agreement of last October 2020 in its national articles by adding to it…
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The failure of Westminster Democracy in Sudan….! (3-4)
Dr. Elshafie Khidir Saeid This is part three of a four parts article that tries to discuss the thesis on what is the best and the most suitable political system for Sudan. Actually and specifically we are exploring here only one component of the political system, the form or model of the democratic practice that is compatible with the peculiar characteristics of the objective reality of the Sudanese society. We all know that Sudan inherited…
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THE BARRICADES!
Muawad Mustafa Rashid For several successive days, protests and road closures continued in Khartoum and other cities in response to the high prices and general lack of bread and fuel. The bread crisis in Khartoum is reportedly caused by cuts in the allocation of flour to the state. In North Darfur, students demonstrated against the lack of bread, high transportation costs, and deteriorating education system. The barricades are known in the world centuries ago, and…
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Chief of Staff Dots the i’s and Crosses the t’s
Muawad Mustafa Rashid Introduction: The phenomenon of central governments recruiting special forces to assist the army in its mission in protecting the nation is not new. Most governments recruit special forces to conduct specific missions per the security situations. The United States was the first nation that initiated this system through the formation of special fighting units under the name Special Weapon and Tactic Troops (SWAT) in the year 1967. The mission of SWAT is…
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The Spark!
Osman Mirghani Last weekend, Friday, almost all the media outlets published news articles and reports on a statement issued by the Juba Peace Agreement (JPA) signatory armed struggle movements in which it said that the agreement is passing through a dark tunnel similar to previous agreements. The first observation is that the statement came immediately after the kick-off of the new peace talks with the SPLM-N (Al-Hilu) as if it is s red signal to…
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Lessons from Previous Peace Agreements
Omer B. Abu Haraz Peace and security are integral inseparable elements in any country. Lack of security anywhere is a threat to security everywhere. After the ratification of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) of Naivasha in January 2005 peace did not prevail in Sudan as the CPA was focused on South Sudan only without addressing the then-nascent insurgency in Darfur. It also left the two regions of S. Kordofan and Blue Nile with their SPLA/N…
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The failure of Westminster Democracy in Sudan….!(2)
Dr. Elshafie Khidir Saeid In our previous article, we concluded that democracy has a permanently unchanged & fixed essence of universal values & principles, whether it is practiced in UK, USA, Malesia, or Sudan, but, it may, or should, be implemented & practiced with different forms & models according to the peculiarities of different societies & countries. Hence the challenge that faces the elites & the political thinkers in Sudan is how to create a…
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The Recovery Starts
Mohammed Saad Kamil First Vice President of the Transitional Sovereign Council, 1st Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo has said that Turkey is no doubt one of the important and advanced countries with which Sudan should cooperate with especially after the December revolution and its openness to the whole world to serve the mutual interests of the two counties. On August 21st, 2019, Sudan started its 53 transitional periods to end early 2024 during which period…
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Security Arrangements Loopholes
Muawad Mustafa Rashid According to news articles, 5 of Darfur peace signatory armed movements said that the non-implementation of the security arrangements item represents a threat to the peace process, hence bringing the country back to war square. On the other hand, observers pointed out the existence of big loopholes in the security arrangements, accusing the armed groups of attempting to mobilize more troops with fake ranks a matter that confuses the security scene through…