SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Washington Post - Sudan may follow a perilous Arab Spring playbook: The strongman falls, his allies remain
Following the Sudanese power-sharing agreement, Adam Taylor and Claire Parker argue that former Sudanese president Omar Al Bashir’s allies have learned a critical post-Arab Spring lesson: stepping-in to “preserve” the revolution often means clinging to power and blocking democratic reform.
Khalid Mustafa Medani, an associate professor at McGill University, said that while the power-sharing agreement give cause for optimism, the worry is that regime figures might be able to use delay tactics or try to divide and co-opt the civilian opposition before the planned handover, emphasizing the role of the international community.
Political analyst H.A. Hellyer said that Arab Spring pro-democracy movements often fail to make a compelling argument for why they should oversee reform.