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Sudan: Three Takeaways From Historic Protests
African Arguments, 31 October 2021
Hundreds of thousands -if not millions - of demonstrators marched across Sudan yesterday, 30 October, against Sudan's military coup. As of this morning, eleven people were reported… Read more »
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Sudan: Democracy's Path to Victory in Sudan
African Arguments, 30 October 2021
Today, Saturday 30 October, Sudan is witnessing mass-demonstrations. Pro-democracy protestors are marching against a military coup led by commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces,… Read more »
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Sudan: Sudan's Coup Wasn't a Failure of U.S. Diplomacy. It was the Dawn of a New Era in Africa.
Atlantic Council, 29 October 2021
US diplomats had barely cleared Sudanese airspace when the country's military began deploying across the capital, Khartoum, in the early hours of Monday and rounding up the… Read more »
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Sudan: Coup Plotters Have Miscalculated Their Options
ISS, 29 October 2021
The military has shown poor judgement of the political and security climate in Sudan and the international community. Read more »
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Sudan: People Resist the Coup in Sudan
New Frame, 26 October 2021
On Monday morning Sudanese trade unions and people's movements called for strikes and mass protests in response to a military coup. Prime minister Abdalla Hamdok has been arrested,… Read more »
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Sudan: Implications of the Coup in Sudan
Reporter, 30 October 2021
The situation in Sudan has become so dynamic over the past few weeks. The rift between the military and civilian sections of Sudan's transitional administration has grown… Read more »
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Sudan: Watching Out for Sudan Coup Implications
Reporter, 30 October 2021
Two-and-a-half years after the ouster of long-time dictator General Omar al-Bashir in a popular revolution in April 2019, Sudan has yet again undergone another military coup. On… Read more »
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Africa: Sudan Should Await the Viable Maxim - African Solutions to African Problems!
Reporter, 30 October 2021
The maxim African solution to African problem traces back its origin to the Organization of African Unity (OAU) that refers African states to "Try Africa First" before appealing… Read more »
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Sudan: How Years of Instability Have Made the Army Key Power Brokers
The Conversation Africa, 28 October 2021
Omar al-Bashir's regime in Sudan was toppled in 2019, a demise hailed with cries of "just fall!" from protesters massing in the streets of the capital Khartoum. But the transition… Read more »
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Sudan: General Al-Burhan - Illegitimate, Unpatriotic, Untrustworthy, and Not a Leader
African Arguments, 28 October 2021
The seizure of power by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Monday was a brazen usurpation of the constitutional order, a selfish effort to protect the privileges of the army, and a… Read more »
How Years of Instability Made Army Key Power Brokers In Sudan
On October 25, 2021 civilian prime minister Abdalla Hamdok was placed under house arrest for not supporting the latest coup. Justin Willis for The Conversation examines how twice before - in 1964 and 1985 - soldiers threw their weight behind popular protest and toppled regimes that had initially been created through coups. Both times the soldiers had come back into power. The question is whether this would happen again, and it has, with Hamdok's arrest.
The head of the armed forces Abdel Fattah al Burhan, has dissolved the traditional government and assumed complete power. Why does the pattern keep repeating? And what options do international actors have to press for democractic progress?
InFocus
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Sudanese security forces arrested demonstrators in Khartoum on Wednesday, including three leading pro-democracy activists, as the World Bank and the African Union took steps to ... Read more »
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The crisis between the military and civilian components of the Sudanese transitional government has worsened, as security forces charged with the protection of recovered assets and ... Read more »
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Protests erupted in the streets of Khartoum on October 21, 2021 over Sudan's hybrid transitional government, Voice of America reports. Supporters of the country's civilian co Read more »
Abdul Fattah al-Burhan, head of the Sudan armed forces (file photo).
