SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Independent – ‘It’s us or them’: How Sudanese generals sacrificed civilian politicians to save their own necks
Ahmed Aboudouh’s feature piece examines fears that political reform would weaken the military’s grip on Sudan, thereby leading to the coup.
Veteran journalist Osman Mirghani said: “going down from the country’s leader to just a council member is traditionally not an option among the military generals in Sudan…[military leader] Al-Burhan understood that such a move would have meant that military will have to remove him from political life.”
Mirghani also argued it was “bizarre to see politicians demanding a military reform while they are disorganised and lacking legitimacy in the form of an elected parliament…their proposal would make the army effectively run by militias”.
Implementing the power-sharing agreement was a “recipe for unrest,” with Mirghani stating the construction of agreed-upon institutions “never saw the light of day, and we ended up in a country run by the day-to-day stunts of individuals at the helm of the transition”.