In this week’s post, Elizabeth Graham demonstrates how in light of the prevailing conflict, catastrophic humanitarian crisis and international neglect, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Sudan can play an essential and life-saving role in advancing fundamental economic and social rights such as the right to an adequate standard of living, access to food, medicine and other life-saving services.

Through an unprecedented voter turnout, the Zambian people recently united to oust an authoritarian regime — overcoming the odds in an election that is surely a bright spot for democracy on the continent.