SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Telegraph - Sudan's young protesters have turned the streets into a carnival - but can they hold out against old guard?
Roland Oliphant’s feature piece evaluates the resolve of Sudan’s protest movement.
Senior Sudanese journalist Osman Mirghani said that the biggest problem for Sudanese protesters is their lack of leadership, adding that the military are waiting for the politicians to give them a plan, but the civilian opposition is “five different forces with different ambitions.”
Oliphant then argues that the longer the negotiation deadlock goes on, the more that fears grow of Himedti launching a counter-coup, noting that his Rapid Support Forces are armed and deployed around Khartoum.
Oliphant notes that the National Intelligence and Security Services is also armed and deployed, raising the prospect of a civil war if a wrong move “could spiral out of control.”