El Fasher’s fall exposes the failure of Washington’s reliance on regional power brokers — many who are directly involved — to end the conflict. For over 500 days, the world watched as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) methodically (...)
Wars, economic shocks, planetary heating and aid cuts have worsened food crises in recent years, with almost 300 million people now threatened by starvation. Why hunger ? World food production has increased almost fourfold since 1960. FAO (...)
Le conflit actuel au Soudan est le résultat malheureux du soulèvement populaire de 2018-2019. Les deux parties belligérantes mènent une guerre contre le peuple soudanais, cherchant à accaparer les sources de richesse – l’or, principalement – et à (...)
Ending the war in Sudan will require real Sudanese dialogue and carving out a new political course. Nada Wanni argues that any Sudanese dialogue will be intensely contested particularly at this time of war. Wanni warns against a controlled, (...)
The Sudanese state has been governed by patrimonial order where loyalty is rewarded with patronage. The weakness of central state institutions has enabled the paramilitary Janjaweed to carve out its own power base. An attempt to muscle in on (...)
Victorieuse du dictateur al-Bashir, la révolution soudanaise de 2018-2019 avait débouché sur un partage du pouvoir entre militaires et civils. La perte de légitimité de ces derniers, contraints d’appliquer un programme d’ajustement dicté par le Fonds (...)
Sudanese have been going out on the streets for non-violent, peaceful protests for more than three months since the military coup on October 25, 2021. Thousands of demonstrators have been defying a ban on protests and have marched in Khartoum (...)
Amidst this country-wide civil rebellion, the military junta is speedily moving to reinstate the Islamist regime led by former dictator Omar al Bashir, who was ousted in April 2019 On Sunday, January 30, mass demonstrations against the military (...)
A military coup carried out last month threatens to roll back the gains made in the 2019 revolution that overthrew al-Bashir’s brutal regime. Protests against authoritarianism and military regimes are not new to Sudan. Even the revolution that (...)
Apparus dans la foulée des manifestations de 2013, les comités de quartier ont joué un rôle clé dans la vaste mobilisation qui a conduit à la chute d’Omar el-Bashir en 2019. Mais la transition a fait apparaître des lignes de fracture politique, sociale (...)