Sudan Archives

The Ethiopian Refugees Stranded in Sudan

Ahsani Maulinardi·October 6, 2024

Over 70,000 Ethiopian refugees are stranded in Sudan amidst escalating conflicts. The complex challenges of repatriating them emphasizes the need for coordinated legal, humanitarian and diplomatic interventions. Read More...

Ethiopia October/November 2024 Sudan

To Bear Time: On Sudan’s Long Endurance

Joshua Segun-Lean·August 4, 2024

The war in Sudan has displaced millions and cast a shadow over the country’s future. Against these odds, the spirit of popular struggle endures in ‘minor’, indeterminate scales of social and political action. Read More...

August/September 2024 Sudan

‘Poetry Is Political’ Safia Elhillo’s First Draft

Safia Elhillo·April 5, 2024

Sudanese poet, Safia Elhillo, feels very differently now about the idea of belonging than she did at the time of writing her award-winning collection, The January Children. Looking back, she was ‘so concerned with a sort of diasporic longing that centered nationhood and nationality as the primary sites of belonging, and I just really don’t believe that anymore.’ Read More...

April/May 2024 First Draft Interviews Sudan

The African Union’s Most Elusive Dream Sudan, Somalia and the AU’s Unending Challenge of Internal Wars

Blessing Simura and Courage Dzvukamanja·October 15, 2023

The transformation from the OAU to the AU meant accepting that the challenges Africa faced had changed from those faced during the decolonization era. Among the new challenges, the most perverse were internal wars. The AU attempted to invest heavily in mechanisms that would ‘silence the guns’ on the continent. In Sudan and Somalia, it seems that silencing the guns has remained an elusive dream. Read More...

Africa Best of 2023: Essays October/November 2023 Sudan

Conflict in Sudan The Invisibility of the African Union

Catarina Milhazes·September 15, 2023

The African Union’s diplomatic efforts in Sudan are evidence of the difficulties faced by the continental organization with regard to its autonomy and credibility. But its efforts, despite not solving all the problems, are not completely insignificant. Read More...

August/September 2023 Sudan

Where is the African Solution? Why the African Union Must Intervene in Sudan’s Crisis

Kosi Ogbuli·July 11, 2023

The African Union’s absence in Sudan is not merely a matter of geopolitical interest; it is a crisis with significant human costs and far-reaching implications for the credibility of the union’s regional governance. Read More...

June/July 2023 Sudan

‘I Am Too Crushed by the War That Started in Sudan to Embark on a New Novel’ Leila Aboulela’s First Draft

Leila Aboulela·June 23, 2023

Award-winning writer and Sudanese novelist, Leila Aboulela, discovered Akuany, the protagonist of her most recent novel, River Spirit, on a bill of sale in the Sudan Archives at Durham University. Read More...

First Draft Interviews June/July 2023 Sudan vol7-no3