Transitional Sovereignty Council
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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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Military Component Tripartite Committee Meets the Forces of National Consensus
Staff Writer Khartoum 01/09/2022 – The Vice-President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Chairman of the Tripartite Committee of the Military Component, Lieutenant-General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, chaired, at the Republican Palace today, the committee’s meeting with the National Accord Bloc, with the participation of a member of the Sovereign Council, Naval Engineer Ibrahim Jaber, within the framework of the consultations conducted by the military component with the political parties. in the yard. In a press statement, a…
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Sovereignty Council VP Praises the Great Development Witnessed by Sudanese-Turkish Relations
Staff Writer Khartoum 01/09/2022 – The Vice-President of the Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant-General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, praised the great development witnessed in Sudanese-Turkish relations. His Excellency, Your Excellency, during his reception at his office in the Republican Palace today, the Ambassador of Turkey in Khartoum, Ambassador Irfan Nazir Oglu, on the occasion of the end of a period in the country, in the presence of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Dafallah Al-Hajj, affirmed…
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The Significance of the US Ambassador’s Arrival in Khartoum
Muawad Mustafa Rashid According to a media notice issued by the Public Diplomacy Section of the Embassy of the United States of America in Khartoum, Ambassador John Godfrey, the first US Ambassador to Sudan in nearly 25 years, arrived in Khartoum. The notice added “As a senior representative of the US Government, Ambassador Godfrey will work to strengthen relations between the American and Sudanese people and to support their aspirations to freedom, justice, and a…
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Political Will: The Vision and the Tool
Dr. Elshafie Khidir Saeid The Sudanese political arena is almost fully saturated with many initiatives that claim they can appropriately address the current crisis in the country. But, when one looks at the reactions to these initiatives and takes note of the atmosphere in which they were launched, she/ or he may say, with confidence, that none of these initiatives can succeed. The reason why they cannot reach success can be attributed to many factors…