SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Africa Report - Sudan’s deep state still poses a threat to the democratic process

23/1/2020: Africa Report - Sudan’s deep state still poses a threat to the democratic process, by Andrew Edward Tchie and Jihad Salih Mashamoun

Andrew Edward Tchie, Research Fellow for Conflict, Security and Development at King’s College London, and Jihad Salih Mashamoun, a PhD Candidate at the University of Exeter, call for the transitional government to put in place a strategy that ensures that the Islamist deep-state does not mobilise to hinder the democratic process.

To do so, Tchie and Mashamoun call for the government to “deal carefully” with the “fractured” military, security and intelligence apparatus and isolated Islamists, suggesting that the unification of these under one leadership could prevent the mobilization of disenfranchised Islamist conservatives and isolated security personnel.

This would entail a vision of governance that addresses structural marginalization of Sudanese peripheral regionals, through “innovative, sustainable, inclusive and law-abiding”, including polices, including the devolution of powers to “create and embed real change.”