SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Independent - Sudan’s military and opposition forge power-sharing deal to end months of unrest
The Independent’s international correspondent Borzou Daragahi’s feature piece on the Sudanese power-sharing deal argues that the military junta “has the upper hand.”
Joseph Siegle, director of research at the Washington-based Africa Center for Strategic Studies, told The Independent that it is questionable whether the military will step down, adding that “it’s very consistent with Sudanese politics to make promises and concessions and appear moderate at one point, and then as time passes, to renege on that.”
However, H.A. Hellyer, a Middle East and north Africa specialist at the Atlantic Council and the Royal United Services Institute, told The Independent that “the deal is not what many in the protest movement will have hoped for, while there will also be those who consider it the least bad of all options.”