Social Science Research Council

Sherif Idriss Izhaq, the political officer of the SLA in Ain Siro, has been murdered. The motive of his killing, shortly after the first visit to Ain Siro by members of the Mbeki Panel last month, is not yet clear, but SLA officials in Ain Siro are examining the possibility that there could be [...]

Former president Jaafar Mohammed Nimeiri died this week, forty years after his historic “May Revolution” in which, as a young army colonel in the model of Gamal Abdel Nasser, he seized power and promised “everything must change.” For sixteen dramatic years he led Sudan on an extraordinary political dance which reached every corner of the [...]

Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, the most irrepressible Pan Africanist of his generation, died in Nairobi on 25 May 2009. His friends and colleagues are stunned at the loss of a man who was so full of life and humour, such a determined Afro-optimist, and such a devoted father to his children, Aisha and Aida. Africa is impoverished [...]

Professor Abdel Rahman Musa, leader of the SLM-Free Will group and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, passed away on Sunday. He was a fine Darfurian scholar and intellectual committed to peace for his people.
Abdel Rahman grew up in Kutum, a member of a well-known Tunjur family. He studied at the University of Khartoum and [...]

An obituary by Julie Flint and Alex de Waal.
One of the most disturbing images to have come out of Sudan in the wake of JEM’s attempt to overthrow the government has been that of the tortured body of a lawyer in his forties, Jamali Hassan Jalal al Din, apparently beaten to death by government forces [...]

Last week, Dr Majzoub al Khalifa Ahmed, advisor to the President of Sudan, was killed in a car accident on the road to his hometown, Shendi, on the Nile north of Khartoum. His brother also died. I express my condolences to his family, who are mourning the death of the two men.
Majzoub was in charge [...]