Sudan Transparency and Policy Tracker

Mediation Fiddles as Sudan Burns

admin — Fri, 02 May 2025 17:03:25 +0000

By Abdul Mohammed, Former Senior Political Advisor and Head of Office, Sudan Mediation, United Nations Sudan’s war has entered its third horrific year. Towns are in ruins. Millions are displaced. Famine looms. The very idea of a Sudanese state is unraveling. Yet amid this unfolding catastrophe, another, quieter collapse demands attention: the failure of mediation. […]

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Sudan Conflict Monitor # 19

admin — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 03:55:54 +0000

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Gold and the war in Sudan

admin — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:49:13 +0000

STPT’s Executive Director Suliman Baldo and Chatham House Senior Researcher Ahmed Soliman co-authored this paper, published by Chatham House. The gold trade connects Sudan’s civil war to the wider region and highlights the roles that commodities play in perpetuating violent conflict. Even before the start of the civil war in 2023, Sudan’s main warring parties […]

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Sudan Conflict Monitor #18

admin — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 03:45:02 +0000

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U.S. Sanctions: Where Lies the Impact?

admin — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:10:53 +0000

Elwathig Kameir kameir@yahoo.com Toronto, January 27, 2025 Some friends ask me: What impact will U.S. sanctions against the Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have on the state of war in the country? In turn, I asked, searched, and left no stone unturned to provide an objective answer and offer an analysis of […]

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Corruption In revenue collection in Wartime Sudan

admin — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:10:29 +0000

(January 29, 2025) The April 15, 2023 war has altered economic governance. State control of revenue collection has been degraded, in part due to the loss of control of territory and infrastructure to the RSF. The RSF took control of 136 headquarters of government ministries and agencies as well as agriculturally productive areas. Although it […]

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Ethnically motivated Revenge killings in Sudan must StopWe urge all actors to prevent the further spread of atrocities against civilians

admin — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:59:15 +0000

While international news outlets report jubilation in Wad Madani as SAF forces takeback territories in Jazeera State from the RSF, we have seen horrific reports from theground of widespread revenge killings and sexual violence against civilians perceived tohave supported RSF fighters – or simply for being perceived as foreign. These revengeatrocities are serious violations of […]

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Khartoum at War: A personal story

admin — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 09:02:40 +0000

By Shamsaddin Dawalbeit This paper is a personal account of the author’s multiple displacements during Sudan’s ongoing war: from Gezira state to Khartoum in 2023, back to Khartoum again and then from Khartoum by road to Kampala in June 2024. The author, founder of the “The Democratic Thought Project”, and its subsidized book series “Readings […]

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Sudan Conflict Monitor #17

admin — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 04:04:01 +0000

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The Strategic Commodities Fund (Apr 2020-Jan 2023): What lessons for a new effort?

admin — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:13:00 +0000

In times of great adversity, we must think smart, sharpen our resolve, and pursue effective solutions to pressing dilemmas. This was exemplified in the approach of the transitional government led by former Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok (September 2019 – October 2021) to acquiring strategic commodities following the December Revolution, in the midst of severe economic […]

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