6/5/2022: Sudan Tribune – Facts and lies about the 25 October Coup in Sudan, by Khalid Mukhtar Salim

Khalid Mukhtar Salim warns that addressing “cosmetic pretexts” rather than the “real reasons” for the coup will buy time to legitimise it, citing a broad pro-coup camp that is not guided by national interest or ideology, but rather, “their desire to monopolise power to serve personal interests”.

Salim adds that the pro-coup coalition are “political aspirants bribed with wealthy government ranks and positions in army-owned companies” such as past and present leaders of armed movements including: Mubarak Ardol and Ali Askouri.

Salim notes how military leader Abdulfattah al-Burhan is rehabilitating Islamists from ex-president Omar al-Bashir’s regime in order to build his pro-coup coalition, although it fuels increasing frictions between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia and Islamists who are hostile against it and feed discontents into the army over the RSF’s growing influence.