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Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir looks on during a meeting with former South African President and head of African Union High-Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) Thabo Mbeki (unseen) in Khartoum on September 10, 2014. (AFP Photo/Ashraf Shazly)

Opinion: When will we see the back of Bashir?

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...

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Islamist opposition leader Hassan Al-Turabi is welcomed by supporters in his home in Khartoum, Sudan, in this July 1, 2010 file photo. (Reuters/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Files)

Opinion: The mystery that is Hassan Al-Turabi

by Osman Mirghani | Feb 13, 2015 | Opinion

There are people who live their whole lives in the spotlight, arousing controversies over their roles and ideas. While some find themselves forced into the limelight against their will, others seem to be ecstatic about the atmosphere of controversy and confusion they...

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Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir addresses a crowd in North Khartoum, on June 8, 2013. (Reuters)

Debate: Sudan’s government has had many successes over the last 25 years

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...

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Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir gestures as he gives an address at the opening of the eighth session of Parliament in Khartoum on October 28, 2013.(Reuters/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah)

Debate: Political Islam was able to rule Sudan because of the underlying conditions there

by Bassam Youssef | Jun 14, 2014 | Debate

Political Islam must be viewed in its historic context, rather than whether its rule is civil or military. The modern state, which was invented in Europe, turned away from the ways in which rulers had previously legitimized themselves. Those means were based on...

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Sudanese people living in Egypt wave their national flags and shout slogans against Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his government during a protest outside Sudan’s embassy in Cairo October 3, 2013. (REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)

Debate: Sudan’s national salvation government has reached a dead end

by Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi | Oct 27, 2013 | Debate

In this day and age, no regime can be stable unless it meets four conditions: its legitimacy is accepted by a critical section of the people, it ensures security, it provides suitable means of living, and it receives international approval. The Sudanese regime has...