SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Guardian - Sudan and Algeria have ousted leaders, but revolutions rarely end happily

13/4/19: Guardian – Sudan and Algeria have ousted leaders, but revolutions rarely end happily, by Simon Tisdall

Simon Tisdall calls for Sudan’s pro-democracy movement to overcome both the military-security elite, and the “meddling foreign powers who back it for selfish ends."

Tisdall argues that the demands of Sudanese and Algerian protestors are contradicted by global and Middle-East powers’ demands for autocratic and authoritarian rule that “promotes...intolerant views and subverts the rule of law and individual liberties.”

Tisdall also raises the possibility of Awad Ibn Auf’s sudden resignation being triggered by the US not viewing him as a leader they “could respectably do business with,” arguing that the US and Israel prioritises continued counter-terrorism cooperation with Sudan, over its democratic reforms.