Transitional Government
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Al-Burhan Proceeds to New York, Seen Off by VP Dagalo
Staff Writer Khartoum: 21/09/2022 – Lieutenant-General Abdel Fattah Al Burhan Abdel Rahman, Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, headed this morning to New York City at the head of the Sudan delegation participating in the work of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly. He was seen off at Khartoum Airport by the Vice-President of the Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant-General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. His Excellency is scheduled to deliver Sudan’s speech before the United Nations…
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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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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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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),…
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Jibril Ibrahim: Missed Chances!
Osman Mirghani Minister of Finance, Dr. Jibril Ibrahim has returned to Khartoum after a long political diaspora through the Juba Peace Agreement (JPA) of October 3, 2020, and the agreed-upon power-share in which he was assigned the most important executive position in the government cabinet e.g. Minister of Finance. The Minister of finance is supposed to be the Deputy Prime Minister even if it is not stipulated in the agreement. After October 25th, 2021 coup…
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Food Security: Pipe Dreams
Muawad Mustafa Rashid The Minister of Finance affirmed while addressing the Arab Food Security Initiative scientific forum which took place in Al-Shariga Hall at the University of Khartoum last week, that there is a shortage in providing accurate information about the soil and the quantities of water and that is due to the failure of utilizing the natural resources of the country to the maximum. What our honorable Minister said is not new and is…