SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Fanack - Sudan: Upcoming Challenges and Confrontations

10/1/2023: Fanack - Sudan: Upcoming Challenges and Confrontations, by Ali Noureddine

Fanack identify its various opponents to the framework agreement within Sudan.

The Resistance Committees, “the largest of the popular gatherings opposed to military rule”, hold reservations about any negotiations with the putschists.

They are joined in opposition by the Sudanese Communist and Baath parties, alongside the Democratic Bloc faction of the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC-DB) – including the Justice and Equality and Movement and Sudan Liberation Movement - who “command widespread support” across Sudan’s peripheries.

 Fanack note that “the combined weight of [FFC-DB] affords them the ability to obstruct the implementation of the framework agreement especially since their positions align with [Egypt]...which has a considerable impact on the political balances in Sudan.

Fanack add that Egypt, a “regional power”, has been a “staunch supporter of the military coup [and] appears not particularly enthused about a new democratic course that would distance its allies in Sudan from power.”