Sudan's Revolutionary Spring Khartoum, April 23. General ‘Abd al-Rahman Siwar al-Dhahab, in power since April 6, was expected to name an interim cabinet on Monday, April 22, to govern the country under army supervision for a transitional period of one year. In the meantime, General Siwar al-Dahab appointed an interim cabinet fo Eric Rouleau • 22 min read
MER Article Sudanese and Somali Refugees in Jordan In late 2015, hundreds of Sudanese staged a sit-in outside the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Amman, Jordan. Their hope was to obtain recognition of their rights as refugees and asylum seekers, and to receive better treatment from the agency. A previous protest in 2014 ha Emma Murphy, Will Todman, Abbie Taylor, ROCHELLE DAVIS • 25 min read
MER Article The Responsibilities of the Cartoonist Khalid Albaih is a political cartoonist “from the two countries of Sudan,” in his words, who is now based in Qatar. His drawings appear at his Facebook page, entitled Khartoon! in a play on the name of the Sudanese capital. Katy Kalemkerian and Khalid Medani spoke with him in Montreal on November 9, Katy Kalemkerian, Khalid Mustafa Medani • 22 min read
MER Article China and the Sudans It wasn’t supposed to be like this. South Sudan and Sudan had agreed to share oil revenue, oil was flowing again and, despite considerable problems, relations appeared headed in a slightly better direction. Both governments were drawn to China as a key provider and practical enabler of economic assi Daniel Large • 13 min read
Current Analysis New Alliances and Schisms in Sudan The ten days of protests in Sudan beginning September 23, 2013 were the largest in the country since the installation of the military government of Omar al-Bashir in 1989. As Middle East Report editor Khalid Mustafa Medani explains in an interview with KPFA, unlike the youth-led protests of 2011 and Amanda Ufheil-Somers • 1 min read
Featured Between Grievances and State Violence On June 16, 2012, female students at the University of Khartoum mounted a demonstration that released a wave of protest on campuses and major towns across Sudan. The young women exited the university gates chanting “Freedom, freedom,” demanding the “liberation” of their campus from the grip of the N Khalid Mustafa Medani • 20 min read
Current Analysis Sudanese Echoes In Egypt’s constitutional crisis today, there are echoes of the rise of the National Islamic Front (NIF) in Sudan. Khalid Mustafa Medani • 4 min read
MER Article A Tale of Two Secessions in the Sahara The March 2001 destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyan, Afghanistan, introduced a new loanword into the Euro-American political vocabulary. The Taliban’s new explosion into world consciousness catalyzed, until September of that year, more hand wringing than substantive investigation of their social ori George R. Trumbull • 9 min read
Current Analysis Understanding the Prospects and Challenges for Another Popular Intifada in Sudan While the attention of the Western and Arab media has focused on the historic victory of the Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate in Egypt, street protests of a scale not witnessed for two decades continued into their second week in Khartoum and other major Sudanese cities. Anti-government pr Merip Intern • 2 min read
Current Analysis War Returns to the Two Sudans After weeks of escalating border violence and heated rhetoric, war has returned to the Sudans. The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) formally ended 40 years of civil war between north and south Sudan, and paved the way for the creation of the Republic of South Sudan, Africa’s newest independe Amanda Ufheil-Somers • 11 min read
Current Analysis No Clean Break Renewed conflict along the border between Sudan and South Sudan follows a predictable pattern, says MERIP editorial committee member Khalid Medani in an interview with KPFA radio. Amanda Ufheil-Somers • 1 min read
Current Analysis Clooney's Arrest Dwarfs Sudan Agreement The casual Sudan observer might conclude from recent news stories that George Clooney's arrest at the Sudanese embassy in Washington on March 16 has been the most significant event of the past week. It takes some digging to find any coverage of the preliminary agreement [http://www.sudantribune.com/ Amanda Ufheil-Somers • 1 min read
