SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Foreign Policy – How Sudan’s Military Overcame the Revolution

5/8/19: Foreign Policy – How Sudan’s Military Overcame the Revolution, by Justin Lynch

Foreign Policy’s feature piece attributes the military’s maintenance of power in Sudan to divisions within the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), and the international community’s unwillingness to force the military to hand-over power.

 FP sources allege that the US’ top diplomat in Sudan, Steven Koutsis, called for the US to align policy with the pro-junta Saudi-UAE-Egypt axis, with the international community pressing the FFC to compromise with the military.

 While the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) hopes to initiate change from within, other FFC negotiators accuse the SPA of desperation to get political power. FP’s sources also highlight FFC negotiators accusing each-other of leaking strategic intel to the military.

 Sudanese lawyers expressed surprise at the FFC’s unwillingness to correct measures that undermine the transitional government’s civilian nature, including the military’s exploitable undefined powers, ability to reject items in the sovereign council and immunity granted to government officials.