Sudan’s Fateful Moment: Will surging protests grow to become countrywide and bring down the hated NI
The moment has finally arrived: the immensely destructive economic catastrophe engineered by the Omar al-Bashir’s National Islamic...
Sudan - Research, Analysis, and Advocacy 1
Jan 21, 2018
International Reporting on Sudan Finally Finds Its Voice Following Arrest of Western Journalists
The New York Times has offered the first significant Western news reporting on economic and political developments in Sudan; not...
Sudan - Research, Analysis, and Advocacy 1
Jan 20, 2018
RSF wants three journalists included in Ethiopian prisoner release
As the Ethiopian government prepares to release hundreds of detainees, including opposition politicians and political activists,...
Reporters without Borders 1
Jan 17, 2018
Seven Priorities for the African Union in 2018
What’s the issue? African Union leaders meet at the end of January for their bi-annual summit. Vital institutional and financial reform...
International Crisis Group 1
Jan 17, 2018
Our First Glimpse of How Khartoum Intends to Respond to Organized, Peaceful Demonstrations Over Cata
Today’s scheduled and pre-announced demonstration in Khartoum, protesting catastrophic increases in the prices of basic commodities,...
Sudan - Research, Analysis, and Advocacy 1
Jan 16, 2018
Gravestones vandalized in Jewish cemetery in Eritrea
Dozens of gravestones were toppled and broken in a Jewish cemetery in Eritrea. The damage at the cemetery located in the capital of...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jan 16, 2018
Unrelenting Violence in Darfur: Recent Reporting by Radio Dabanga
Violence, especially sexual violence against girls and women, remains unchecked in Darfur; violence associated with the ruthless Rapid...
Sudan - Research, Analysis, and Advocacy 1
Jan 11, 2018
SUDAN RSF decries Sudanese security agency’s seizure of eight newspapers
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the confiscation of the entire print runs of eight Sudanese newspapers in the past two days...
Reporters without Borders 1
Jan 11, 2018
Al Jazeera Interviews Two Important Figures in Khartoum About Protests Throughout Sudan
Al Jazeera has aired a lengthy and notable interview program (January 9, 2018), featuring two people in Khartoum; it provides and...
Sudan - Research, Analysis, and Advocacy 1
Jan 10, 2018
Sudan’s Economic Catastrophe Brings Country to the Brink: A Compendium of Very Recent Reports
For several years I have chronicled the slow demise of the Sudanese economy, a task necessary because there is no international reporting...
Sudan - Research, Analysis, and Advocacy 1
Jan 9, 2018
Abducted at nine to be a girl soldier for Kony: 'Now people call me a killer'
When Agnes Acayo escaped from the rebel group who had abducted her at the age of nine, she felt overjoyed to be free and back home at...
The Guardian
Jan 8, 2018
Sudan’s Economic Crisis Reaches the Tipping Point
These sudden, massive increases in the price of flour—and thus of bread—will inevitably lead to additional civil society outrage and...
Sudan - Research, Analysis, and Advocacy 1
Jan 8, 2018
