SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Deutsche Welle - Sudan strives to break 30 years of isolation

21/2/2020: Deutsche Welle - Sudan strives to break 30 years of isolation, by Tom Allison

 Tom Allison argues that the Sudanese transitional government’s attempts to end its international isolation has been met with pushback from sections of Sudanese society and international ambiguity that “threatens to undermine [Sudan’s] transition to democracy.”

 Sudan analyst Jonas Horner from the International Crisis Group states that the agreement to submit Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court (ICC) is re-enforcing splits between the military and Islamists.

 However, Sara Abdelgalil, a spokesperson for the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) suggested that the possibility of an ICC court set up in Sudan could also help restore a judicial system “wrecked by [al-Bashir’s] regime.”

 Adelgalil said the decision to normalise ties with Israel should be left to an elected government and was antithetical to the revolution given that “some people view the political regime in Israel as a terrorist regime.”