SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: The Hill - Sudan faces an inflection point — and needs US leadership
Kate Knopf, the director of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, and Payton Knopf, an adviser to the Africa Program at the US Institute of Peace, call for the US to lead Sudan’s democratic transition with two interlinked courses of action, warning that Sudanese state failure would be the largest in modern history.
Firstly, the Knopfs call for the US to equalise the balance of power between the junta and civilian reformers by threatening the junta with international isolation unless it cedes power.
Secondly, the Knopfs call for the US to build international consensus around a transparent economic bailout conditioned on the pursuit of a civilian-led administration which includes: an economic sector uncoupled for the security apparatus, independent judiciaries, protection of minorities and expanded civic freedom.
The Knopfs call for the package to be transparent so that the junta takes responsibility for continued economic failure.