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Perspectives on the African Union high level implementation panel in the Sudanese media, 2009–2019: sovereignty and its uses

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Willow BerridgeORCiD

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Abstract

This article analyses Sudanese media narratives on the role of Thabo Mbeki’s African Union High Level Implementation Panel [AUHIP] between 2009 and 2019 in facilitating talks between the various parties to Sudan’s civil and military conflicts. It contends that both opposition and pro-regime media narratives had considerable capacity to shape perspectives on the legitimacy of the AUHIP process within the Sudanese elite. It further argues that both the anti and pro-government press made a virtue of using sovereignty as a rhetorical device to frame attacks on the AUHIP, contrary to the perspective that sovereignty narratives are principally resorted to by entrenched regimes. In particular, the article explores the claims of opposition outlets that the international AUHIP-led talks were averting the possibility of domestic revolutionary change. The principal source base is electronically archived Arabic language Sudanese media reporting from 2009 to the present.

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Author(s): Berridge WJ

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journal of Eastern African Studies

Year: 2025

Volume: 19

Issue: 3

Pages: 390-408

Online publication date: 05/01/2026

Acceptance date: 18/07/2024

Date deposited: 11/03/2026

ISSN (print): 1753-1063

ISSN (electronic): 1753-1055

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2025.2597633

DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2025.2597633

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