SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Carter Center - Sudan's Youth and the Transition: Priorities, Perceptions and Attitudes

5/8/2021: Carter Center - Sudan's Youth and the Transition: Priorities, Perceptions and Attitudes

US NGO the Carter Centre’s report on the role of Sudan’s youth in the democratic transition found that they are excluded, and that there is youth distrust towards the government.  

 Thus, the Carter Centre call for Sudan’s government to prioritise youth involvement in government   decision-making   by   identifying   and developing regular channels for  them  to  express  their  views, and implementing a youth-focused  outreach strategy  with  the  aim  of  sharing  information and engaging youth participation.

Civilian Sudanese democrats are called upon to establish coalitions around employment, health care, and the rising cost of living—the top priorities of youth across Sudan.

The international community were called on to seek youth input on initiatives and encouraging Sudanese stakeholders to do the same, alongside supporting training for youth on discerning the accuracy of

SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Foreign Policy – How Sudan’s Military Overcame the Revolution

5/8/19: Foreign Policy – How Sudan’s Military Overcame the Revolution, by Justin Lynch

Foreign Policy’s feature piece attributes the military’s maintenance of power in Sudan to divisions within the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), and the international community’s unwillingness to force the military to hand-over power.

 FP sources allege that the US’ top diplomat in Sudan, Steven Koutsis, called for the US to align policy with the pro-junta Saudi-UAE-Egypt axis, with the international community pressing the FFC to compromise with the military.

 While the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) hopes to initiate change from within, other FFC negotiators accuse the SPA of desperation to get political power. FP’s sources also highlight FFC negotiators accusing each-other of leaking strategic intel to the military.

 Sudanese lawyers expressed surprise at the FFC’s unwillingness to correct measures that undermine the transitional government’s civilian nature, including the military’s exploitable undefined powers, ability to reject items in the sovereign council and immunity granted to government officials.

SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Independent - Sudan’s power-sharing deal will crumble if the civilian-led coalition loses sight of the vision that gave them power

5/8/19: Independent – Sudan’s power-sharing deal will crumble if the civilian-led coalition loses sight of the vision that gave them power, by Ahmed Aboudouh

 The Independent’s consulting editor Ahmed Aboudouh calls for the Forces of Freedom and Change to maintain their unity and popular acceptance of their authority, “the one and only source of the legitimacy of their power,” in order to shield themselves from a potential military coup. 

 Noting that the old regime will try to maintain the “deep state,” Aboudouh calls for a united FFC, warning that their lack of discipline could result in their disintegration.

 With most leading politicians in Sudan lacking direct contact with Sudan’s economy, Aboudouh calls for the FFC leaders to conjure up a “plan B that can soothe the angry masses,” adding that a restructured legislative system and clear roadmap to reshape the identity of institutions will be necessary for any vision for a new Sudan to succeed.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources – Sudan rebels reject Constitutional Declaration

5/8/19: Multiple sources – Sudan rebels reject Constitutional Declaration

• AP

• Radio Dabanga

• Sudan Tribune

 The Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) has officially rejected the Constitutional Declaration signed by Sudan’s ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC) and the opposition Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), saying that the declaration “categorically rejected peace.”

 An SRF statement pointed out that the constitutional declaration “puts obstacles in the way of implementing future peace agreements,” and that the Forces of Freedom and Change ignored their positions on peace.

 SRF deputy leader Gibril Ibrahim told Sudan Tribune that the constitutional document rejected an SRF-proposed provision that potential peace agreements prevail over any other charters, including the political and constitutional declarations.

 Ibrahim added that the constitutional declaration’s peace pact also excluded the SRF’s political groups from the political equation because it denotes that a peace pact will be with “armed groups” rather than the SRF.

 The SRF said it will seek to amend the declaration before its final signing on August 17.