SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Foreign Affairs - What’s Next for Sudan’s Revolution

23/4/19: Foreign Affairs – What’s Next for Sudan’s Revolution, by Alex de Waal

 Alex de Waal argues that the minimising the risks of Sudan’s transition to democracy “[descending] into chaos” requires foreign actors to encourage democracy, and prevent weapons from flowing into the hands of rival factions. 

 De Waal argues that the Arab world's regional rivalries being played out within Sudanese politics could have "the same calamitous results" as in Libya and Yemen.

 De Waal states that the troika (US, UK and Norway) has been "conspicuously absent" during the protests and the coup, and labels  the African Union's position "problematic," given with the AU's chair (Egypt) support of the coup.

 Moreover, De Waal argues that Darfuri and South Kordofani rebels refusal to join the Declaration of Freedom and Change coalition "echoes" that of John Garang's refusal to join a newly-established civilian government in 1985, a mistake that "condemned Sudan to 20 years of bloody civil war."