Osman Mirghani

The war that broke out in Sudan in 2023 was not merely a military clash that destroyed cities and displaced millions. It was also a social and political earthquake that brought radical and profound shifts in the Sudanese citizen's thinking and his view of life and of the political scene, going…

Wars are not fought with weapons alone, nor are their outcomes decided solely on the battlefield. There are other fronts no less dangerous, foremost among them the economic front, where citizens’ suffering and the pressures of daily life can become tools for undermining social cohesion and public…

Calls for a Sudanese-Sudanese dialogue are growing. The principle enjoys wide support in popular, political, and social circles, and among regional and international parties, and the work of the Sudanese Dialogue Preparatory Committee is drawing backing that reflects a growing awareness that the…

The hardest thing about the Sudanese dialogue is not announcing the call for it, nor opening its hall. It is persuading Sudanese, amid the deep divisions the war has aggravated, that sitting around a single table can lead to a result different from what earlier dialogues ended in. This is why the…

Some people occasionally surprise you with the question: Why call for a Sudanese-Sudanese dialogue in Khartoum, rather than in one of the capitals of the region, or even in a European capital far removed from the theater of war? The question is legitimate, but it may be useful to turn it around:…

The suffering of Sudanese is unmistakable. You touch it in the markets and the streets, in people's talk of rising prices, the deterioration of the pound, and the climbing dollar exchange rate; you feel it in the lines of cars waiting for hours at the petrol stations. It is a daily suffering that…

No two people differ over the fact that Sudan is living through a harsh ordeal imposed by the war, its consequences, and the interventions in it, or that the Sudanese citizen is paying the heaviest price today. Anyone walking the streets of Khartoum's three cities sees the enormous scale of the…

Since the current war in Sudan broke out, everything that has happened at the UN Security Council concerning it has been closely tied to military developments on the ground. It was therefore not surprising that the US move, backed by European states, to expand the arms embargo imposed on Darfur to…

The Sudanese-Sudanese dialogue conference may be the best opportunity, and the best thing that could happen to Sudanese, since the war broke out. The difficult conditions, the worsening suffering, and the dangers facing the country cannot bear the continuation of political wrangling, and do not…

When the Sudanese army and the Joint Forces recaptured the Jabra al-Sheikh area in Kordofan late last month, the most striking sight was not the scale of the military destruction, but what had been done to the area's main hospital. It had been rendered completely inoperable after being subjected to…