SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Arab Center Washington DC – A Coup Cannot Serve Two Masters

22/2/2022: Arab Center Washington DC – A Coup Cannot Serve Two Masters, by Kholood Khair

To soften Sudan’s political impasse, Kholood Khair, managing partner at Insight Strategy Partners think-tank, calls for recognition that the transition that started in August 2019 is over, and that a new transition toward a fresh civilian political dispensation is sought.

Amid Sudan’s economic crisis, Khair calls for recognition that pro-democracy forces can far outlast the military “who rely so heavily” on economic control, although civilian divisions offer the military pretexts for their coup.

Khair notes that the divisions revolve around mistrust between the Resistance Committees and Forces of Freedom Change (FFC) political parties, who differ on how to achieve civilian rule, although both are united in opposition a power-sharing arrangement with the military.

With political contestations and ideological differences “part and parcel of the democratic prerogative that underpins healthy democracies,” Khair suggests that key divisions between civilian groups about governance modalities can be negotiated and managed.