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Sudan: Between Reform and Conflict
Haydar Ibrahim Ali Sudanese Studies Center - 29 April 2008

Political thought in Sudan generally avoids the issue of reform, since the very notion falls short of the political and developmental ambitions the country has harboured since independence, in 1956. The Sudanese people believe that they are more advanced democratically than other Arab and African countries, since they have known party pluralism, even a Communist Party, and the two popular (...)[More]

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