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Postponing Sudan's Elections

File Under: Color Me Unsurprised.

Sudan’s National Electoral Commission has announced that this year’s scheduled presidential and parliamentary elections, mandated by 2005’s Comprehensive Peace Agreements, have been postponed until 2010. Sudan has not had a general election since 1986.

Khartoum’s thugs have no interest in giving up power or even in having to have that power validated. That was obviously the case before the International Criminal Court brought charges against President Omas al-Bashir. Why on earth would the situation have changed in the wake of those charges?

 

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Derek Catsam

Derek Catsam is a Professor of history and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He is also Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University. Derek writes about race and politics in the United States and Africa, sports, and terrorism. He is currently working on books on bus boycotts in the United States and South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s and on the 1981 South African Springbok rugby team's tour to the US. He is the author of three books, dozens of scholarly articles and reviews, and has published widely on current affairs in African, American, and European publications. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout southern Africa. He writes about politics, sports, travel, pop culture, and just about anything else that comes to mind.

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Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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