Politics
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When the Center Could Not Hold
Robert Bates’ When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late Century Africa is a seminal contribution to understanding state crises Africa. Bates’ thesis is ... -
Water under the Desert: Blessing or Curse?
Posted on behalf of Sarah Barga Alex de Waal makes a compelling argument for the possibility of the underground lake found in the northern ... -
Land in Sudan… Continued
Many thanks to Alex de Waal for posting my briefing on land issues in Sudan on his blog last month and for stimulating so ... -
Prospects for Peace and Democracy in Sudan: April 2008
Overview 1. The NCP-SPLM partnership for the CPA stands at a critical juncture. The NCP sees the 2009 elections as its route to internal ... -
Sudan’s Islamic Movement: Mosaic Democracy, a New Concept
Posted on behalf of Ambassador Hassan E. Talib. First of all, I would like to extend my gratitude to this blog for allowing this ... -
Analysis of Chad
A report by Jérí´me Tubiana for the Small Arms Survey, “The Chad-Sudan Proxy War and the “Darfurization” of Chad: Myths and Reality,” provides excellent ... -
The Future of the Sudanese Islamist Movement
One of the great ironies of the Islamist adventure in coup-making (leading to the creation of the National Salvation regime in June 1989) was ... -
Urbanization and Exploitation
Asif Faiz claims that Khartoum resembles capital cities in “virtually every” developing country. In the sense that, for the first, time the majority of ... -
Urbanization: the Path to Development and Democracy?
Mark Duffield’s comments are thoughtful but I would ask him a simple question. Is Khartoum that different from imperial cities like Delhi, Mexico City, ... -
Peace in Darfur: Prioritizing or Police Enforcement?
In his comment yesterday, Michael Swigert of Africa Action usefully compares the memorandum that Abdul Mohammed and I submitted to the mediation meeting on ...