Yearly Archives: 2010
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Sudanese Women’s Votes
Without doubt, the statistics of Sudan’s elections will be pored over and debated at length, and the interpretation of every figure will be open to dispute. ... -
Good for Sudan
The last two days I have been in Khartoum, on the phone and email to people in all corners of Sudan. Places like Bor, Renk, Damazin, ... -
Sudan: The NEC and the First Day of Polling
Sudan’s first democratic election in 25 years started on Sudan 11 April 2010, with boycotting by major political parties and many question over the impartiality and ... -
Sudanese Polling Day and A Complex Election
With less the 48 hours remaining for the polling day in the first democratic election in Sudan I want to go through some practical issues regarding ... -
Sudan: The Intifada Jubilee
Today is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the popular uprising that brought down the dictatorship of President Jaafar Nimeiri, setting the stage for Sudan’s last multi-party elections ... -
Peace, Justice, and the International Criminal Court
The long-running debate about whether seeking justice for grave international crimes interferes with prospects for peace has intensified as the possibility of national leaders being brought ... -
Elections in Sudan: In Whose Interest?
“Even America is becoming an NCP member. No one is against our will”, President Omer Albashir, in Sinar, Blue Nile City rally, 3 April 2010 Yesterday ... -
Transitional Elections in Comparative Perspective
Democrats today, facing autocratic governments, have an advantage over their predecessors of ten or twenty years ago. Political scientists have studied transitions from authoritarianism and there ... -
Good Reasons Why Sudan is destined to Inevitable Doom? Revisiting the Prophecy
A few months ago, when I posted my article “10 Good Reasons Why Sudan is Destined to Chaos“, in which I have anticipated the possibility that ... -
Sudan: On Confusion
A senior member of a Sudanese opposition party, was present at the meeting of the leaders of the Juba Alliance in which the issue of boycotting ...