Abdalbasit Saeed

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Thursday, September 11th, 2008

The Day of Justice

Sentiment and intuition, unlike the mysticism of the ‘cave man’, are the germs of conscience. I choose to use them to predict the obvious, the epitome of the process of a faltering state. I think this piece could contribute to a reading of how the NIF not only failed in its own designs, but also [...]

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Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Northern Kordofan is not a Candidate for a War of Liberation–Now

Northern Kordofan does not qualify for a war of liberation, now. But in light of the gravity and importance of the situation there, I would like to ink a few points to draw more attention to Northern Kordofan.
Kordofan is the strategic geographical center of Sudan. However, the JEM Commander-in-Chief (Khalil Ibrahim) did not choose to [...]

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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Southern Kordofan: Crossroads or Blind Alley?

Four dynamic factors act, instrumentally, on the fractured landscape of Southern Kordofan State (SKS) to generate serious challenges to human security, socioeconomic, administrative and political reintegration opportunities in the post-conflict phase. The expected result is that such factors work, as well, to pose immediate threats and high risk for smooth implementation of the CPA protocols [...]

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Sunday, July 6th, 2008

A Nation at the Crossroads: The Case of Ocampo against al-Bashir

Posted by Abdalbasit Saeed.
The truths, reflections, analysis or misjudgments and predispositions in this rejoinder are the sole responsibility of the author. They do not, however, examine the validity or justification of the initial ‘Civilization Mission’ slogan by the regime of the National Islamic Front (NIF) at its point of inception in June 1989. The discussion [...]

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Friday, March 7th, 2008

Demystifying State and Property Rights on Land

In the Sudanese context of prolonged conflict, mobility of pastoral groups into the transitional areas such as South Kordofan and Blue Nile and the drive for compensation for the dispossession of lands where petroleum is found, rural land is being gradually and consistently transformed from communal use to private possession. The lack of a land [...]

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