SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Atlantic Council - Sudan’s democratic transition is over. Now it’s time to support the revolution
As Sudan’s “revolution lives on in the hearts of millions of peaceful pro-democracy protesters” despite the end of the formal democratic transition, Cameron Hudson, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, calls for the international community to “unabashedly throw its weight behind [Sudan’s] pro-democracy movement in tangible and meaningful ways that will begin to swing the balance of power more in the protesters’ favour”.
Hudson proposes funnelling frozen financial assistance to resistance committees to help them better organise, communicate, and develop their own political platform – thereby enabling them to become a more formal part of the political process.
Hudson also calls for a “hard-line approach toward the military [including] sanctions against figures [that] played a direct role in orchestrating [deadly protest crackdowns”, thereby “exposing the military for [being a] malign force bent on its own wealth and survival at the expense of [Sudan’s] well-being.”