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Four months after a historic popular upsurge in Sudan in December 2018 and the government repression that followed, the military deposed long-time dictator Omar al-Bashir. Civilian and military forces then governed in partnership, with democratic sectors pressing for an all-civilian government. (...)
One year after the coup d’état organized by the military against the transition process following the fall of Al-Bashir, the mobilization continues against a weak and divided government. Structures of self-organization of the populations have taken over the political field and are fighting (...)
The Sudanese movement No to the Oppression of Women (La liqahr al-nisa’a) published this statement on their Facebook page in Arabic.
The regime of Omar al-Bashir in Sudan, who was overthrown by a popular uprising in 2019, used similar tactics to the Iranian regime to instil fear and division by (...)
On 25 October 2021, Generals al-Burhan and Hemidti ended the transitional government that emerged from the 2019 revolution in Sudan with a coup. Since then, mobilization has continued despite the repression. The resistance committees, the backbone of the struggle, have adopted a charter (...)
Almost six months since the military coup in Sudan, peaceful protests continue to take place according to weekly schedules issued by resistance committees. New forms and tools of resistance have emerged—even after more than 90 protesters have been killed by the state forces in protests, and tens (...)
A loaf of bread cost five Sudanese pounds in October 2021. Six months later, Sudanese women have to pay fifty pounds! This economic slump is accompanied by repression of demonstrators who tenaciously maintain the mobilization against the coup d’état led by al-Burhane and Hemidti. The putschist (...)
“In recent months, several resistance committees have led the issuance of political charters based on widespread consultation of their neighborhoods, regions, and with other revolutionary bodies in their areas. Given the rapid process of the committees’ evolution, a question poses itself: What (...)
To all medical organizations, human rights organizations, unions, citizens of the free world:
Since last October, the Sudanese people have been peacefully demonstrating in the streets with extraordinary courage against yet another totalitarian military regime that seeks to replace their (...)
Resistance committees are mobilising at grassroots level to bring about a fundamental transformation of the state
A few hours after the military coup in Sudan on 25 October 2021, its leader, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, appeared on television to announce the dissolution of the Sovereign Council, (...)
Understand the violent military regime that took over power in Sudan and the struggles against it
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Political Background
Electing representatives became a possibility in Sudan since its independence, in 1954. The National Islamic Front (NIF), led by the Islamic Brothers regime, (...)
Critics claim that the agreement has not alleviated the level of repression or laid the foundation of any framework in which a transition to democracy can be realized. It only amounts to prime minister Abdalla Hamdok’s complete capitulation to the army generals, they say
Mobilizations are once (...)
The Sudanese people have made up their mind to defy the 25 October coup, and there is no way back
Sudan’s coup on 25 October was both highly anticipated and inevitable. For three months, tension between the civilian and military partners that had ruled Sudan since the 2019 powersharing deal had (...)
Joseph Daher analyzes the current situation in Sudan after the military-backed coup last month.
One month after the first attempted coup, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the Transitional Military Council (TMC), announced on October 25 a state of emergency, the dissolution of the (...)
The revolution in Sudan did not end with the ousting of al-Bashir — people in the streets continue to keep the pressure up until all their demands are met.
The peaceful, mass uprising which began in Sudan in December 2018 was sustained for nearly eight months in the face of widespread state (...)
The sit-in in the town of Nertiti has grown over the past week as people across the country rally behind demands for security and justice
A sit-in in a town of Sudan’s Central Darfur demanding justice and security after recent incidents of killings and looting have quickly become a rallying (...)
One person reported killed as ’million-man march’ calls on prime minister to accelerate implementation of reforms
Tens of thousands of Sudanese took to the streets across the country on Tuesday to pressure transitional authorities for greater civilian rule after the overthrow of longtime leader (...)
Sudan is transitioning from a grassroots revolution to a post-revolutionary governmental structure, and from military to civilian control, and doing that in a world where protest has been put on hold. Will the revolution have a hard landing?
Khartoum is a city where North Africa blends with (...)
Sudan’s revolution is not only Arab but also African in a way not seen in the 2011 Arab uprisings. The old regime combined Islamism and a racist form of Arabism with military rule, touching off in response a youthful, democratic, multiethnic, and pro-feminist revolutionary movement that has (...)
The Sudanese Revolution has won major victories. But it still needs to wrestle control from the military to popular forces.
The constitutional agreement between Sudan’s people’s movement and the country’s armed forces was signed on Saturday, August 17. The following article sheds light on the (...)
Today, the Sudanese military and civil opposition are singing a political agreement — meanwhile the revolution is carried forth by grassroots organizers.
political agreement has been reached between the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) — the broad alliance of civil society and rebel groups (...)
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