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Juba Peace Agreement: Obstacles of Implementation
Muawad Mustafa Rashid As the Paris Investment Conference inches closer, there are high hopes that it will contribute in resolving the Sudanese economic crisis, especially in regard to funding the Juba Peace Agreement signed between the Sudanese government and the armed struggle movements last October. The Juba Peace Agreement is actually a collection of accords setting out principles covering power and wealth sharing, land reform, transitional justice, security arrangements and the return of displaced persons.…
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April 25th, World Malaria Day
“Zero Malaria – Draw the Line Against Malaria” The African Summit on Roll Back Malaria held in Abuja, reflects a real Convergence of Political Momentum Haffiya Abdalla Khartoum — Malaria constitutes a major public health problem in Sudan. Almost, 75% of the population is at risk of developing malaria. Malarial transmission is unstable and puts the whole country at the risk of a malarial epidemic. The possibility of epidemic increases with heavy rains, floods, and…
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Border Conflict in Africa: Part 3 — Aouzou Strip
Abudigana Al-Tahir Introduction In August 1987, the armed forces of Chad swept across vast stretches of desert in a series of rapid attacks that shattered an occupying Libyan army and drove it from the northern third of Chad. This operation briefly captured the Aouzou Strip, an obscure piece of territory in the northernmost of Chad, but Libyan forces recaptured it shortly afterward in a campaign marked by unusually heavy and intense fighting. Although the two…
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11 April, Two Years past the Revolution: Profit and Loss Account
Al-Sammani Awadallah The 11th of April 2019 marked the end of the rule of the former dictator Omer Al-Bashir. Since then the country witnessed several events on both local and international levels. The April 2019 announcement, which brought an end to the ousted regime, came as a result of an uprising that had dominated all thought across the country, where youth were the main factor in implementing change. The protests removed fear and loosened the…
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Two Years since December: A Look Back
Mohammed Saad It was not surprising, in light of the changes that took place in the region, that the change took place in Sudan according to the new system that beset the world. After two years, the revolutionaries who kept the flame of protests burning in the streets of Sudanese cities for four months and protected their sit-in in front of the army leadership in Khartoum for about two months, found that they had accomplished…
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Border Conflict in Africa: Part 2 — Western Sahara Conflict
Abudigana Al-Tahir Within the annals of African conflicts, not many have lasted as long or been as intense as the Western Sahara War of Morocco and the self-governing Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. With a general span of fifty years, and more intense fighting of nearly 16 years, it still gives African peacekeepers a conundrum of mythical proportions. The conflict began from an insurgency by the Polisario Front against Spanish colonialist forces from 1973 to 1975…
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GERD between Kinshasa and Washington: Openness to All Options
Al-Sammani Awadallah In the latest news on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Ethiopia has invited Sudan and Egypt to nominate dam operators for date exchange before the filling of the dam in the upcoming rainy season. Sudan’s irrigation minister welcomed the step of exchanging process within a legal and binding agreement for the filling process. Meanwhile, the tripartite talks of irrigation ministers from each of Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia over the dam, which took…
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Africa: The Land of Gold (5)
Haffiya Abdalla Sudan is experiencing a gold rush and is now the second-largest producer of gold in Africa and the ninth in the world. However, its production is driven by unregulated, artisanal (individual subsistence) mining: more than 1.5 million men who put their lives at risk to dig for and extract the precious metal. To much of their dismay, the government in Khartoum is pushing to attract foreign investors and introduce more industrialized methods. The…
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Social Responsibility: The Absent Obligation
Muawad Mustafa Rashid Social responsibility means that individuals and companies have a duty to act upon that is in the best interests of their environment and society as a whole. The crux of this theory is to enact policies that promote an ethical balance between the dual mandates of striving for profitability and benefiting society as a whole. It is an ethical theory in which individuals are accountable for fulfilling their civic duty, and the…
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Border Conflict in Africa: Part 1 — Hala’ib
Abudigana Al-Tahir Despite centuries of conflict, death, and tragedy, coverage of issues in Africa has often been ignored, oversimplified, or excessively focused on limited facets. Deeper analysis, background, and context has often been lacking, so despite what looks like constant images of starving children in famines, and news of billions in aid arriving to Africa from generous donor countries, background context and analysis is usually missing. In this series, a more in-tune view of Africa…