SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Financial Times - Gulf allies shore up Sudan's interim military rulers

25/04/19: Financial Times - Gulf allies shore up Sudan’s interim military rulers, by Tom Wilson and David Pilling

 Tom Wilson and David Pilling argue that UAE and Saudi Arabia are threatening to hinder the transition to civilian rule in Sudan, through pledging and providing economic support to the sitting transitionary military council.

 Wilson and Pilling suggest that the move has “angered a population hostile to any foreign support for the interim military government,” although the aid packages minimise the immediate economic crisis.

 Former UK ambassador to Khartoum Dame Rosalind Marsden said that the Saudi-Emiratia support of the military council is ‘’thought to be driven primarily by the need to ensure Sudanese ground troops remain engaged in the war in Yemen.”