SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Sudan Tribune - Sudan should not settle for anything other than true democracy
Hala Al-Karib, the Regional Director of SIHA (the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa), calls for the international community to support Sudanese civil society achieve a truly democratic leadership beyond the Framework Agreement.
In identifying obstacles preventing Sudan’s pro-democracy movement from transforming into an effective vehicle for democratic governance, al-Karib wrote that the women and youth who were “truly responsible” for toppling Omar al-Bashir’s regime “had to yield to the leadership of weak and isolated political parties”.
Al-Karib added that Sudanese political parties’ attempts to lead the political transition after the revolution “were doomed to failure” as they had long lost any connection they had with the people, were solely interested in self-preservation and “failed to engage with and accommodate in their policy plans the new waves of activism led by women, youths and minorities”.