Osman Mirghani

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…

The scale of foreign interference in Sudan's ongoing war is no longer a secret. Numerous international reports and media outlets have documented it, and the Sudanese government has raised the issue repeatedly, backing its complaints to the UN Security Council with photographs and documents showing…

In recent days, images showing the falling water level of the Nile in Sudan have been causing concern and raising the alarm. Beyond the appearance of sandbars caused by the river's retreat. In some areas, the Nile has come to resemble a shallow seasonal stream that people can cross on foot. The…

Sudanese people never tire of debating politics, nor do they stop doing so. This may well be one of the afflictions of political life - if not one of its curses. The constant debate over every issue and every detail has made politics an exhausting endeavor in Sudan, complicating consensus-building…

Many Sudanese agree that intra-Sudanese dialogue constitutes the most realistic path for rescuing the country from its current crisis. After years of polarization and division, followed by a war that deepened the wounds and widened the circle of destruction and displacement, it has become clear…

This week, the spotlight fell on two migration-related developments that highlight the paradoxes, complexities, and challenges migration poses for countries around the world. In Britain, the Home Office's announcement of new measures to tighten immigration and asylum policies attracted widespread…