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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPaper tiger law forbidding FGM in Sudan
While the law is a political compromise cleverly designed to please stakeholders, girls at risk of undergoing FGM...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSudan: the government and its obsession with pornography
"They kept asking me if I have a boyfriend; when I was kissed last …they threatened to take naked pictures of me or...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia‘Killing a student is killing a nation’: Sudanese universities revolt
Seven Sudanese public universities have witnessed waves of protests during the past week: the crackdown on civil...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOn the move again: 70,000 refugees compelled to leave camp
Refugees in South Sudan's Yida camp dispute UNHCR arguments for their relocation once again.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWindow on the Middle East - November 20, 2015
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaNo revolution this year: Sudan’s October Revolution and the Arab Spring
Sudan's 1964 revolution brought a military regime to an end. The reasons for the revolt were similar to those of the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAmerica's not so exceptional foreign policy
What can explain the myopia of US policy towards Sudan, when it knows Sudan has been facilitating ISIS in Libya,...
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Published in: HomeBashir's South Africa visit, actually a step forward
It was not to be this time around, but next time there could well be a different outcome.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWindow on the Middle East - June 22, 2015
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe looming threat of ISIS in Sudan
ISIS is succesfully recruiting among disaffected Sudanese youth, and not enough is being done to stop it.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAmendments to Sudanese criminal law
Amendments don't mean change. It’s high time for a comprehensive campaign against the entire legal system, calling...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSudan and Operation Decisive Storm
Major opposition parties in Sudan boycotted the elections that took place earlier this month, but are now supporting...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSilence over Sudan’s bombing of civilians
There is insufficient awareness at the international level about the civilian crisis caused by the government in...
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Published in: openSecuritySudan: nodding through a dictator’s re-election
Next week sees elections in Sudan. But there’s one thing wrong—we already know the outcome.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThis week's window on the Middle East - December 16, 2014
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East....
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTabit and sexual violence in Darfur
Darfur has practically been closed off to journalists, politicians and independent civil society organizations, and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaArab League's absence reveals the reality of governance in the Arab world
Discrepancies in the Arab League expose the long-standing conservative, tribal, nepotistic and ineffective...
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Published in: HomeTea with sugar and politics in Sudan
Despite all the problems that the Sudanese now face in their troubled country, people still gather over afternoon...
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Published in: 50.50The UN should not let Sudan get away with murder
When the UN Human Rights Council meets this week to discuss the human rights situation in Sudan, will member states...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia“It is a joke”: ongoing conflict and the controversies of 'return' in Darfur
Though attention may have shifted away from Darfur, the conflict is far from over. The internally displaced are...