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Peace in Sudan Can Only Flower After a Weapons Embargo

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:48:40 +0000

The case for the White House’s Security Council resolution on Sudan, made by two senior administration officials.

Beyond Projects: Rethinking Agricultural Investment for Sudan’s Post-War Recovery

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 21:11:53 +0000

This essay concludes a three-part series by the author on agriculture in Sudan. Read the previous instalments here and here. A different approach is needed to determine what to invest in, where to invest, who should benefit, how investments should be financed, and how they should adapt when conditions change. This distinction is important. The previous article in this series examined a century of agricultural investment in Sudan and explored why such extensive investment failed to generate broad-based development. The answer was not merely poor management or insufficient funding. The deeper issue was fragmentation: investments were often designed around individual […] The post Beyond Projects: Rethinking Agricultural Investment for Sudan’s Post-War Recovery appeared first on African Arguments.

Who Speaks for Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms?

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 21:11:53 +0000

When four members of Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms travelled to London in March 2026 to accept the Chatham House Prize on behalf of the movement, the ceremony was widely celebrated as a moment of recognition for one of the most remarkable grassroots humanitarian responses in recent memory. Since fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in April 2023, ERR volunteers have sustained communal kitchens, health centres, water systems, and evacuation networks across thirteen states, reaching millions of people in areas where international aid organisations simply cannot operate. The Nobel Peace Prize nomination followed. The […] The post Who Speaks for Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms? appeared first on African Arguments.

US pressed from all sides as Sudan conflict spreads far and wide

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 03:16:08 +0000

Rival Sudanese factions are scrambling to win over Washington ahead of this month’s UN General Assembly.

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Sudan: The Unfortunate Alliance

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:54:39 +0000

On Foreign Interest, the Ideal Militia, and What a Coloniser Prays He Leaves Behind My grandmother never said displacement. She said: we left the house and the water took it. But the water did not take it. The state took it. A state that had been making that decision for decades, in different languages, with different flags. My grandfather Ahmed was an English teacher in Halfa Dagheim, a Nubian town on the Nile near the Egyptian border. In the 1960s, a decision was made far away—in Cairo, with Soviet engineers drawing designs, and American dollars quietly approving—to build the Aswan […] The post Sudan: The Unfortunate Alliance appeared first on African Arguments.

Sudan: Burhan’s Dialogue Is Not a Path to Stability

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:15:55 +0000

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has discovered dialogue again. After years of promises, a military coup, emergency rule, war rhetoric and political exclusion, Sudan’s army chief now says he wants a comprehensive dialogue inside the country to complete a civilian democratic transition. Al Jazeera reported proposals to drop death-penalty charges against opposition leaders and form a preparatory committee; Radio Dabanga reported talk of a presidential amnesty for leaders of the Civil Democratic Alliance, known as Somoud, and other political activists. The language is familiar. That is precisely the problem. Since 2019, Burhan has repeatedly presented himself as Sudan’s temporary guardian on […] The post Sudan: Burhan’s Dialogue Is Not a Path to Stability appeared first on African Arguments.

Inside Abéché, Chad’s second city, where Darfur is never far from hearts and minds

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:15:54 +0000

Less than 200 kilometres from Darfur, Abéché, the capital of Chad’s Ouaddaï province, has become one of the main havens in the Sudanese crisis. Refugees, aid workers, traders and soldiers cross paths in a city where ties with its neighbour are as old as the tensions that come with them.

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US draws Sudanese army’s ire with talk of UN weapons embargo

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:29:53 +0000

US Trump envoy Massad Boulos goes after drone warfare that has given the Sudanese Armed Forces a battlefield edge against the Rapid Support Forces.

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A Century of Agricultural Investment in Sudan: Why Has Development Failed?

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:21:38 +0000

This article is translated and adapted from an Arabic article published in Sudanese Online. The ideas reflect arguments presented by the author in his book on agriculture in Sudan. For decades, Sudan has been described as one of Africa’s countries with the greatest agricultural potential. Its vast arable land, diverse climatic zones, water resources, and livestock wealth have repeatedly led policymakers to portray it as a potential “breadbasket” for Africa and the Arab world. However, a persistent paradox remains: despite more than a century of agricultural investment, Sudan has failed to transform agriculture into a driver of inclusive development or […] The post A Century of Agricultural Investment in Sudan: Why Has Development Failed? appeared first on African Arguments.

Central African Republic-Sudan: A report from Birao, a town on the doorstep of war

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 06:34:37 +0000

Central African Republic Prime Minister Félix Moloua visited Vakaga following attacks, but the population fears a fresh assault amid a simmering crisis.

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The Impact of the US-Iran War on Sudan

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:10:59 +0000

In February 2026, the US and Israel went to war against Iran. Since then, there have been multiple attempts at partial de-escalation through negotiations. However, the recent Memorandum of Understanding signed by the US in June in Versailles has fallen under strain in the past week, with the US seeking to enforce a new blockade against Iranian ports. As such, disruption to shipping in the strategic Straits of Hormuz combined with heightened uncertainty being priced into global financial markets is likely to endure. African Arguments has already tracked the downstream effects of the war on the Somali Horn. This article […] The post The Impact of the US-Iran War on Sudan appeared first on African Arguments.

Redefining ‘Free and Fair’: Ethiopia’s Election and Electoral Legitimacy

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:54:50 +0000

“Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen’s possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society.” Fernando Hen

Can Sudan’s Dried Meat Delicacy Escape the Suitcase and Conquer New Markets?

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:01:56 +0000

Sharmout, a traditional Sudanese dried meat, is already popular among Sudanese communities abroad where it is transported and sold through the ‘suitcase trade.’ The challenge now is turning an informa

Africa’s AI Governance Gap: Why National Strategies Must Move Beyond Adoption to Execution

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:49:27 +0000

In February 2026, the Ghana Revenue Authority deployed Publican AI at Tema Port —software that analyses import declarations, benchmarks values against global trade databases, and flags anomalies befor

The Untold Story of the Battle of Adowa: How Anti-imperialism can be rebuilt from the ground up

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:41:56 +0000

I. Magdala The mountainside fortress is called Magdala. It is perched above the Ethiopian highlands, a stone fist raised against the sky. In its austere regality an eleven-year-old boy named Sahle Mar

African Multilateralism from a Vision to a Reality: Lessons from the Most Hostile Continent on Earth

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:36:39 +0000

For twenty years I have worked strengthening African governance and multilateral institutions. Across each sector – security, economic development, education reform and humanitarian aid – I heard insp

The death of KOKO Networks: a post-mortem of a biofuel startup and the rise of carbon economies in Africa

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:57:56 +0000

What does the much-publicised rise and sudden death of a firm that boasted friends in Silicon Valley and Washington DC tell us about the climate crisis, structural underdevelopment in Africa and the f

The going away of silence: A tribute to Ngugi

Fri, 29 May 2026 13:35:12 +0000

One year after his passing, how should we remember Ngugi? 1. The early years At first, it was just enough to write. Because the silence had gone on for too long. In just a hundred years, between 1860

The Dangote Refinery and the End of Africa’s Engineered Dependency

Wed, 27 May 2026 14:18:48 +0000

For decades, Africa’s place in the global oil economy was not merely subordinate; it was designed to be so. Crude flowed out. Refined fuel flowed back in. Value accumulated elsewhere. This was not an

AI and the New Machinery of African Repression

Sat, 23 May 2026 12:31:20 +0000

Artificial intelligence is lowering the cost of authoritarian control in Africa. The danger is not only mass surveillance, but a state that can abort reformist change before it is even born. Dictators

Libya’s Electoral Mirage: The Illusion of American Optimism

Fri, 22 May 2026 16:09:10 +0000

As international diplomatic efforts intensify in attempts to overcome Libya’s prolonged political deadlock, a renewed US approach has emerged, marked by a noticeable tone of optimism that sits uneasil