[Montréal, Québec, Canada 10°C] Today is election day in Sudan, the first of three days of polling. It is the first multi-party elections in Sudan since 1986, three years before the 1989 coup-d’état that brought Omar al-Bashir’s National Islamic Front – NIF (later renamed the National Congress Party – NCP) party to power.
It has been [...]
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Voting Begins in Sudan Despite Rigging Accusations and Boycott
Popular Protest and Sudan’s Electoral Law Reform
[Montréal, Québec, Canada -4°C] It’s refreshing to see a major international media network devoting and entire show about the present situation in Sudan four months before the country holds its first multi-party general elections in 24 years.
Al Jazeera’s Inside Story asks if Sudan’s elections can take place on time without a reform to the electoral [...]
