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Title:Repression of Sudanese civil society under the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party
Author:Ali, BashirISNI
Year:2010
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy (ISSN 0305-6244)
Volume:37
Issue:126
Pages:437-450
Language:English
Geographic term:Sudan
Subjects:civil society
NGO
political repression
National Islamic Front
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056244.2010.530942
Abstract:Political change in Sudan gathered momentum after 1989, with the government introducing policies of control and restriction on the one hand, and an increasing number of civil society organizations seeking to establish and legitimize their identity and secure their continued existence on the other. This article concentrates on Sudanese nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society (notably community-based organizations), focusing on the regime's institutions and social organization and social and political opposition to the regime. It shows how the Islamic movement uses religion and power to sustain a political system which has lost its legitimacy among many Sudanese. The article focuses on the rise of the National Islamic Front (NIF) from a small political party to a ruling party in the wake of the military coup of 1989. It discusses structures and processes of rule under the NIF, as well as the causes leading to the failure of its own Islamic project in the country. It suggests that the rise of an Islamic movement in Sudan is itself a reflection of a decline in local or grassroots initiatives for social change, and summarizes relations between the NIF and nongovernmental/citizen-based organizations. It concludes that even in the absence of democracy, and under a brutal authoritarian regime, NGOs can engage effectively and contribute to social and economic change, particularly those affecting the marginalized poor, by raising issues of concern about, and promoting alternatives to, political Islam. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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