SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - Sudan’s Reconciliation Agreement to Nowhere

15/11/2022: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - Sudan’s Reconciliation Agreement to Nowhere, by Jihad Mashamoun

With elections planned for 2024, analyst Jihad Mashamoun argues that the commander-in-chief of Sudan’s army, Abdulfattah al-Burhan, is serving his presidential ambitions by “strategically” using dialogue with the Forces of Freedom and Change.

Mashmoun suggests that al-Burhan fears that factions of the ousted ex-president Omar al-Bashir regime may launch a coup against him. Bashir-era politicians Ibrahim Ghandour, Ali Karti and Amin Hassan Omar are identified as al-Burhan’s presidential rivals, with the former regime stated to have 500,000 supporters who control the economy and state institutions, supplying them with considerable funds and organising power to win or rig elections “as they have done in the past”.

Mashmoun adds that al-Burhan faces competition from his own coalition, with finance minister Jibril Ibrahim “working to unite the former regime and [Islamist] Popular Congress Party” and Rapid Support Forces commander-in-chief Himedti “shoring up support in Darfur through the reconciliation of Arab and African tribes.”

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga – More journalists, activists, protesters, including minors, held in Sudan

15/11/2021: Radio Dabanga – More journalists, activists, protesters, including minors, held in Sudan

 

Radio Dabanga report on the military’s nationwide repression campaign during the November 13 protests.

 

During the November 13 demonstrations, citizens were arrested in Omdorman (103), Khartoum (52, including 10 minors), Kassala (5), al-Gadarif (12), with an unspecified amount in Sennar, alongside 71 detained in Darfur since the 25 October coup.

 

The crackdown on journalists has also seen the arrest of Al Jazeera network’s bureau chief in Khartoum al-Musalmi Kabbashi, and Darfur 24’s Abdelmunim Madibo. Journalists Hamad Suleiman al-Khidr and Hozeifa Adel al-Jack were hit with rubber bullets and physically assaulted for covering the protests. Summoned by security forces for covering the protests were Mohammed Omar of Al-Jazeera Live and Ahmed Younes of Al-sharq al-Awsat. Al-Jazeera’s correspondent in al-Gadarif, Osama Sayed, was physically prevented from covering the protests.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources – Two children are killed in November 13 anti-coup protests taking death toll up to 8

15/11/2021: Multiple sources – Two children are killed in November 13 anti-coup protests taking death toll up to 8

The death toll from the November 13 Millioniyah rose to eight, after the Central Committee of Sudan Doctors (CCSD) recorded the deaths of two children -

15-year-old Mujahid Mohamed Farah and Remaz Hatim al-Atta, a 13-year-old girl who was standing at her house door when shot.

The CCSD said that: at least 215 people were injured during the 13th November protests in Khartoum: 112 through live ammunition, 3 from rubber bullets, 17  wounded by tear gas canisters,13 suffocated by tear gas, 8 baton injuries and 62 superficial wounds, alongside a further “11 unstable cases”.

The Socialist Doctors Association reported the names of the other five victims: Mohamed Abakar (35), Abdelhameed Abdelkareem (31), El Sheikh Khater (19), Muhammad Osman (19), and Muzamil Nour (15).

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Sudan's Chief Justice ‘cannot refer Al Bashir to The Haque’

15/11/19: Radio Dabanga - Sudan's Chief Justice ‘cannot refer Al Bashir to The Haque’

 Radio Dabanga reports that Chief Justice Nemat Abdallah said that the power to extradite Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court (ICC) does not fall within her competence.

 Abdallah was responding to queries from Irfan Siddiq, British Ambassador to Sudan. confiscated Ali’s commercial vehicle in Sinja Nabak village in Blue Nile state, after he had reported an assault by an SAF member at the police. They repeatedly told him the vehicle would be returned if he would withdraw his complaint against the soldier.

SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: European Council of Foreign Relations – Sudan’s chance for democracy

15/11/19: European Council of Foreign Relations – Sudan’s chance for democracy, by Jean-Baptiste Gallopin

 Researcher Jean-Baptiste Gallopin calls for the EU to use its support for Sudan to empower Sudan’s civilian leaders at the expense of the military, warning that Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok could miss the opportunity for genuine democratisation if he is “[left] at the mercy of the generals once the international community stops paying attention to Sudan.”

 With Hamdok “unassertive” with regards to the military generals, Gallopin calls for the EU to coordinate with Sudan’s international partners and press Hamdok to take measures that establish him as Sudan’s political leader. In particular, Gallopin suggests that the EU encourage Hamdok to take a more prominent role in Sudan’s peace negotiations, thereby enabling him to reap the political benefits of any peace deal.

 Gallopin also suggests that European diplomats systematically favour meetings with civilian ministers and representatives of the Sovereignty Council over those with a military or paramilitary background.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Reuters - U.S. sees Sudan as a partner, but ending sanctions is a process - State Dept official

15/11/19: Reuters - U.S. sees Sudan as a partner, but ending sanctions is a process - State Dept official

 In a short newsflash, Reuters reports that the US assistant secretary for African affairs at the State Department, Tibor Nagy, said that the US no longer has an adversarial relationship with the Sudanese government and sees it as a partner, although removing it from a list of state sponsors of terrorism is a “process.”

 Nagy told reporters in a briefing: “It will happen when it happens, as quickly as possible,” but conceded that “it’s not flipping a light switch. It’s a process and we are heavily, continuously engaged with our Sudanese interlocutors on how we can go about doing that.”

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Special Envoy Booth: US-Sudanese relations will improve

15/11/19: Radio Dabanga - Special Envoy Booth: US-Sudanese relations will improve

 Radio Dabanga reports that US Special Envoy to Sudan, Donald Booth, said that the US will cooperate with the Sudanese government to successfully complete the three-year transitional period, draft a permanent Constitution, and hold general elections.

 After meeting with the chairman of the Sovereign Council Abdelfattah El Burhan and foreign minister Asmaa Abdallah, Booth said that US-Sudan talks about bilateral relations were successful.

 Radio Dabanga also reports that Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok plans to travel again to Washington in December, to continue the discussion about the normalisation of relations between the two countries and the removal of Sudan from the list of US State Sponsors of Terrorism.