Analysis: As multiple diplomatic tracks emerge to address Sudan's conflict, an east African regional bloc has raised the possibility of deploying troops in the country.
Daowd Ibrahim Salih is a founding member and Board President of the Damanga Coalition for Freedom and Democracy (www.damanga.org). A former assistant field
Mortada Mansour expressed his anger after the Economic Misdemeanor Court in Cairo sentenced him to three months in prison and a fine, on charges of “insulting and defaming” the president of the Al-Ahly Club, Mahmoud al-Khatib.
Sudanese demonstrators set-up barricades that paralysed much of the capital Khartoum for the second day yesterday, in protests against the military coup, Reuters reported. Sudan has been in politic.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese demonstrators erected barricades that paralysed much of the capital Khartoum for the second day on Wednesday, protesting against a military coup whose leader called for dialogue. Sudan has been in political deadlock and economic turmoil since a coup in October ended a civilian-military power-sharing agreement. Military leaders have not appointed a prime minister. In an interview with Saudi-owned Asharq Al-Awsat, the head of the ruling council, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, said that a premier would not be named before talks with political forces, an apparent softening of his position. When all the civilian forces sit together and come to a consensus between them, we are ready to sit and come to an understanding with them or to present them with whatever they need from the military side, he said. While Burhan has said the coup was a necessary corrective to political infighting, civilian politicians accuse the military of seeking to advance allied politici