SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Jacobin - The People of Sudan Don’t Want to Share Power With Their Military Oppressors

24/11/2021: Jacobin - The People of Sudan Don’t Want to Share Power With Their Military Oppressors, by Muzan Alneel

Muzan Alneel, co-founder of ITSinaD think-tank, compares the revolutionary role of the resistance committees (RCs) to the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) political parties.

Alneel notes that protesters described the FFC’s power-sharing agreement with the military as “the partnership of blood…that came at the cost of ignoring both criminal justice for the revolution’s martyrs and economic justice for the living” with the FFC accused of economic policies that “led to terrifying levels of inflation and an increase in the cost of living that exceeded 300 percent,” which subsequently invited the coup.

As the RCs became “the voice of the street, confronting the transitional government’s unwillingness to create tools of democratic participation in political decision-making”, Alneel attributes “their total rejection of compromises with the military and closed-room negotiations with Sudan’s political club,” to the RCs primary commitment being to their respective neighbourhoods rather than political alliances or international donors.

SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Brookings Institute - Sudan needs a region-focused, multi-track transitional justice process

24/11/2020: Brookings Institute - Sudan needs a region-focused, multi-track transitional justice process, by Albaqir Mukhtar

Albaqir Mukhtar, the director of Al Khatim Adlan Center for Enlightenment (KACE), calls for a transitional justice process that takes into account the impact of crimes against individuals, while addressing the victimisation of entire communities.

 Mukhtar emphasises the importance ensuring that crucial stakeholders such as survivors, victims’ families, civil society and human rights organisations gain ownership of and inform regional initiatives, “as they can best speak to community-specific abuses and aspirations for the future.”

 Mukhtar adds that KACE’s strategy for a transitional justice process deploys a variety of regionally tailored mechanisms, including: prosecutions, compensation, truth commissions, reconciliation initiatives, and memorials - with this range of justice mechanisms a “vital step” in restoring trust in institutions and ensuring that rights violations are no longer tolerated.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune – Sudanese Professionals rebuke al-Burhan’s rejection of handover al-Bashir to ICC

24/11/19: Sudan Tribune – Sudanese Professionals rebuke al-Burhan’s rejection of handover al-Bashir to ICC

Sudan Tribune reports that Sudanese Professional Association (SPA) have rejected statements by Abdelfattah El Burhan, the head of the ruling Sovereign Council, that Omer al-Bashir would not be handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

 Labelling the position “unacceptable,” the SPA issued a statement saying that “the first and foremost purpose for the prosecution of al-Bashir for the crimes of his regime in Darfur is to reach an equation that satisfies stakeholders - victims of genocide and crimes against humanity- in the villages, towns and cities of Darfur.”

 The statement added that “we must take into account the desire of the victims to see al-Bashir handed over to the international justice, to affront him and to those who were under his command and to heal the bereaved."

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - El Burhan: ‘Sudan govt will not hand Al Bashir to ICC’

24/11/19: Radio Dabanga - El Burhan: ‘Sudan govt will not hand Al Bashir to ICC’

 Radio Dabanga reports that the head of Sudan’s Sovereign Council, Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, says that the current government does not intend to transfer ousted President Omar Al Bashir to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.

 During an extensive interview with Al Jazeera Mubasher, El Burhan stressed that “the Sudanese judiciary is independent and enjoys the confidence of everyone to ensure the prosecution of anyone.”

SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: AFP – Sudanese women hope new government ends flogging, violence

24/11/19: AFP – Sudanese women hope new government ends flogging, violence

 In a feature piece, AFP explored the legal and societal conditions of Sudanese women.

 Halima Abdalla (not her real name) spoke of her flogging for drinking alcohol, telling AFP that the judge who ordered her punishment said: “we (Islamists) have been in power for more than 20 years and there are still girls who look like this?'"

 Abdalla added that she is bitter about Sudanese society's enduring attitude towards women, including that of her own family.

 Suleima Sharif, who heads a government committee combatting violence against women said: "we have a lot of systemic violence against women aimed at limiting their participation in political and social life, citing laws that encourage violence against women.

 Khartoum's renowned tea seller Awadiya Mahmoud Kuku, a campaigner for the rights of female tea vendors, told AFP that local police continue to harass her peers on the capital's streets.