SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Africa Report - Sudan needs US support – both diplomatic and economic

10/2/2020: Africa Report – Sudan needs US support – both diplomatic and economic, by Jihad Mashamoun

 Jihad Mashamoun, a doctoral candidate at the University of Exeter, identified three immediate measures that align US and Sudanese interests in guiding Sudan’s democratic transition.

For the US to help the transitional government manage popular expectations, Mashamoun calls for the US to appoint an ambassador to Sudan that communicates clearly to key Sudanese political stakeholders what the US expects.

Secondly, Mashamoun suggests that the US can help address Sudan’s security problems by working to handover Salah Gosh and other members of al-Bashir’s regime to Sudanese prosecutors.

Finally, Mashamoun calls for the transitional government and the international community to cooperate in retrieving the billions that al-Bashir’s regime stashed outside Sudan, rather than following the unpopular “narrow economic agenda” of the World Bank and IMF.