Jamal Mahjoub

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MundoÁfrica

Pour tous ceux qui ont suivi les événements survenus au Soudan ces neuf derniers mois, une question, cruciale, demeure : y a-t-il une chance que la révolution se conclue par l’instauration d’une démocratie stable et durable ? Dans toute la région, les soulèvements populaires se sont heurtés à des répressions sanglantes qui ont conduit à la restauration de régimes autoritaires et anéanti tout espoir de réforme. Nous avons tous été témoins de l’enlisement tragique des conflits en Libye, au Yémen et en Syrie. Tandis qu’en Egypte la junte militaire, plus cruelle que l’ancienne, a réduit à néant tous espoirs de voir s’imposer dans un avenir proche un gouvernement véritablement représentatif.…  Seguir leyendo »

Sudan’s former president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, inside a cage at the courthouse where he is facing corruption charges, in Khartoum, Sudan, on Monday. Credit Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters

MundoÁfrica

The sight of the former president of Sudan, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, sitting caged inside a courtroom in Khartoum on Monday had an absurdly theatrical aspect to it. For nearly 30 years Mr. al-Bashir pranced arrogantly about, overcoming political opposition and surviving global condemnation after his 2009 indictment for war crimes. The old man in his white gallabia and floppy turban seemed unperturbed, hardly aware of the bars around him. Understandably, perhaps.

Sudan’s Transitional Military Council, the generals who served and eventually replaced the dictator, made it clear that while he faced charges for corruption and money laundering, Mr. al-Bashir will not be handed over to the International Criminal Court or stand trial for human rights abuses or war crimes.…  Seguir leyendo »

Omar Hassan al-Bashir, now the former president, in 2017. Credit Ashraf Shazly/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

MundoÁfrica,

Thirty years feels like a lifetime. On Thursday, months of peaceful, popular protests finally forced Sudan’s military to oust President Omar Hassan al-Bashir. It feels as if a century has passed since I was in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, just after Mr. al-Bashir ousted Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi in a bloodless coup supported by the Islamists and the army in December 1989.

Six months after the coup the mood was already shifting from shock to gloomy resignation. Nobody in his wildest dreams thought the new leadership would last three decades.

I had no idea then that the Khartoum I knew would disappear: the evening lights, the cinemas and ice cream parlors.…  Seguir leyendo »