African Arguments
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Thabo Mbeki: "Talking to the Enemy: the South African Experience"
Yesterday, former South African president Thabo Mbeki addressed the Fifth Al Jazeera Annual Forum in Doha, Qatar. He described and analysed in detail the ... -
Preparedness Support: Helping Brace Beneficiaries, Local Staff and Partners for Violence
Preparedness Support: Helping Brace Beneficiaries, Local Staff and Partners for Violence is a new report under the auspices of the Cuny Center Humanitarian aid ... -
Two Sudans: Nationalism, Self-Determination and Democracy
I have found the exchanges between Khalid al Nur and Abd al-Wahab Abdalla illuminating, both in terms of the current state of political discourse ... -
National Assembly Results
The National Election Commission preliminary results, from its website, have been updated this week. They are available here: NEC results updated 20 May 2010 -
Southern Sudanese Will Not Be Voting on “What If” History
Ustadh Abd-al Wahab is a good example of a well-known trend among Sudanese intellectuals, who prefer to describe an ideal Sudan as the “true” ... -
Sudan: International Election Observation and Legitimacy
A fair amount has been made of the role of international observers in Sudan’s recent elections, with the most strident criticism suggesting that their ... -
Sudan: Two Forms of Oppression and the Dilemma of the Left
Sudan’s “ugly election” compels us to interrogate the historical evolution of the Sudanese political economy. The Sudanese political economy is imbued by structural contradiction ... -
What We Don’t See in Sudan
With Sudan’s elections completed, the referendum takes center stage. Questions about whether the referendum will happen, in a transparent and timely fashion, are asked ... -
Chad and Sudan: Is the Proxy War Over?
When clashes broke out recently (24 April) between the Chadian army and a new rebel group the FPRN, led by Adam Yacoub (who broke ... -
Saving Sudan: Reflections on the Election
Although I was accredited with the Carter Center as an international observer, I did not join the Carter Center mission, but accompanied one of ...