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Sudan Needs Help to Successfully End Islamic Rule
The country's historic peace deal was brokered against all odds. Now the costly challenges of repairing war damage begin.
A leader for peace.
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“The state shall not establish an official religion.”
It would be presumptuous to suggest that the American Bill of Rights inspired Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and rebel leader Abdel-Aziz al-Hilu. But if their invocation of the establishment clause was unintended, it was no less portentous for that. The principle of separation of faith and state is enshrined in the accord they signed in Addis Ababa last Thursday, effectively ending 30 years of Islamic rule.