Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Summary “Western diplomats privately accused the pro-democracy movement of not being pragmatic. This on account of its slogan, ‘No Negotiation, No Partnership, No Legitimacy’, which accurately sums up the movement’s position towards the junta that was killing its members on the streets of Khartoum.  The Western attempt to restore a civilian-military partnership also gave Dagalo the opportunity to reposition himself as a supporter of ‘democracy’.” The Western regimes’ old-new tradition of supporting ‘stability’. “An estimated twenty-five million people – more than half of Sudan’s population – are in desperate need of relief due to a humanitarian crisis made worse by the fighting.  But rather than safeguard the integrity of relief, the global aid response has elected to administer its operations from SAF-controlled Port Sudan. This has predictably led to bureaucratic impediments, visa denials, and the acute diversion of aid by the SAF, as well as by the RSF.” “Neither Washington nor Riya

A review of Sudan’s Unfinished Democracy Related Historical background To understand fully today’s popular protests, we need to look all the way back to the Sudan’s colonial past. Post-independence conflicts in Sudan were largely caused by ethnic divisions created by the British colonial administration between 1899 and 1956. “Divide and rule” policies pursued by the British continue to haunt contemporary Sudan, both north and south. During most of the colonial period (1899-1956), Sudan was ruled as two Sudans. The British separated the predominantly Muslim and Arabic-speaking north from the multi-religious, multi-ethnic, and multilingual south. Britian’s “divide-and-rule” policy separated southern Sudanese provinces from the rest of the country and slowed down their economic and social development. The British authorities claimed that the south was not ready to open up to the modern world. At the same time, the British heavily invested in the Arab north, modernizing and liberalizing p

“No negotiation, no compromise, no partnership” with the military