by Osman Mirghani | Mar 14, 2015 | Opinion
I do not know why the Sudanese regime has taken the trouble to hold sham elections that pretty much everyone sees through and whose outcome is already known. If President Omar Al-Bashir simply extends his term in office by another five years—that is, in addition to...
by Amin Hassan Omar | Jun 17, 2014 | Debate
From 1989 until today an Islamic movement known as the National Islamic Front (NIF) has ruled Sudan. There is no doubt that since the days of the Sennar Sultanate, there has been no genuinely national government in the history of Sudan that has been able to rule the...
by Mustafa Sirri | Nov 10, 2013 | Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), an alliance of Sudanese opposition forces, called on the international community to put pressure on the Sudanese government to force it to respect human rights and restore democracy at the beginning of a...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 27, 2013 | Middle East
Khartoum, Asharq Al-Awsat—Leading members of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in Sudan have announced their decision to leave and form a new political party. The decision follows an announcement by the NCP’s leadership last week that it had suspended the...
by Ahmed Younis | Oct 25, 2013 | Middle East
Khartoum, Asharq Al-Awsat—Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir threatened to use “the gun” against all those who want to “destroy Sudan” in a speech on Thursday. Speaking during an address in North Kordofan, Bashir said: “To those who want peace and to serve the nation,...
