Follow the example of Sudan’s Omar
The incidence of cash holdings in Pakistan is too high, and it is growing fast - be it local or foreign currency. The utmost need is to bring the money…
Unseen horrors
WHEN yet another Sudanese civil war erupted in April 2023, the then year-old Russian invasion of Ukraine continued to hog the attention of the so-called international community. Now, as Israel…
Diplomacy deficit
PAEANS to Joe Biden’s diplomatic skills have been flowing since the fruition of a prisoner exchange between Russia and the West. The deal apparently took years to negotiate. From a…
Sudan turmoil
In a world already troubled and divided profoundly by the ongoing and seemingly endless war in Ukraine, Sudan has exploded before our very eyes into another bout of civil war,…
Sudan risks long conflict as entrenched rivals struggle for control
Sudan’s warring factions are locked in a conflict that two weeks of fighting shows neither can easily win, raising the spectre of a drawn-out war between an agile paramilitary force…
General disarray
UNTIL a couple of weeks ago, the third largest nation in Africa was supposed to be heading towards a transition to some form of civilian rule. The unexpected but welcome…
Arabs fear for wheat supplies after Russia ‘invades’ Ukraine
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could mean less bread on the table in Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen and elsewhere in the Arab world where millions already struggle to survive. The region is…
International courts ‘more needed than ever’, 25 years after Srebrenica
Twenty-five years after the Srebrenica massacre international courts like those which tried the perpetrators of the slaughter face an uncertain future but are needed more than ever, experts say. The…
Democracy in Sudan
Sudan has witnessed another wave of street protests since October 25, 2021 when the military removed the interim civilian Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok and seized power. The Central Committee of…
Border disputes
Humanitarian agencies and the international community have rightly decried the growing conflict within Ethiopia as a humanitarian disaster. Last November, conflict broke out between the federal government of Prime Minister…
