SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: New Humanitarian - A year after al-Bashir’s ouster, cash-strapped Sudan too broke for peace
Philip Kleinfeld, a journalist covering conflict and humanitarian crises, attributes Sudan’s “jeopardised” democratic transition to stalled peace talks and “tanking” economy.
Kleinfeld quotes Jonas Horner, a Sudan analyst at the International Crisis Group, noting concerns that military leaders could use the worsening economy as a “pretext to take a much firmer hold on the transition,” as the “civilian component of the government is made to look weak.”
Kleinfeld then identifies uncertainty around funding for the security sector reforms, investment into marginalised areas and the demobilisation and reintegration of rebels.
In addition, Sudanese writer Ahmed Hussein Adam argues that the peace talks have failed to look at “the root cause of the failure of the Sudanese state” and conflicts - given their focus on securing armed group representation in various transitional bodies.