Opinion & Analysis
One year into the crisis in Sudan, South Africa should use its influence to help bring peace
Daily Maverick By Dismas Nkunda April 15 marked the first anniversary of the conflict in Sudan. The situation is dire: since the outbreak of the crisis nearly nine million civilians have been forcibly displaced, with 80% internally displaced and others having fled to neighbouring Chad, Central African Republic, Egypt and South Sudan, and within the […]
South Sudan still trying to pick up the pieces
The country continues to grapple with the dilemma of either hastily navigating transitional processes, potentially repeating past disregard for popular will and exacerbating conflict, or extending the transitional arrangement, thereby bolstering the authority of leaders who have consistently failed to secure lasting peace, writes Maggie LoWilla Africa Briefing In 2011, South Sudan became the world’s […]
Historic elections in South Sudan
For the first time in its 13 years of independence, the country is poised to hold a groundbreaking general election in December. Maggie LoWilla looks at power, politics and the pathway to what will be one of 19 elections in Africa this year. Africa Briefing As 2024 unfolds, elections take centre stage across the African continent, […]
Sudan’s Dangerous Descent Into Warlordism
TIME BY KHOLOOD KHAIR AND ASMAHAN AKAM Kholood Khair is a Sudanese policy analyst and founding director of Confluence Advisory. She is now based in London. Asmahan Akam is a Sudanese civil society activist currently living in Boston. Like millions of people from Sudan, we have seen our families suffer in the wake of a devastating war that began in […]