SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Foreign Policy - Sudan’s New Prime Minister Grapples With His Country’s Past
Foreign Policy (FP) examine Hamdok’s stint as Sudanese Prime Minister.
Indicating that Hamdok is in an “unstable security situation,” FP quote fromer NISS chief Salah Gosh, exiled in Cairo, refuting Himedti’s accusations that he arranged the NISS mutiny on January 14 2020, with Gosh accusing Himedti of “playing political games.”
FP write that Hamdok “has gone out of his way not to directly antagonise Himedti,” who he has been “quietly” outmaneuver by liberalising the gold sector to choke off gold mining revenue.
Hamdok’s January 9 journey to Kauda, a rebel stronghold in South Kordofan was successful according to Jerome Tubiana, indicating that “Hamdok had started to compete with Himedti and some officers in the military council for support in the peripheries.”
However, Hamdok’s focus on getting the US State Sponsor of Terrorism designation lifted “backs [him] into a political corner with impatient [Sudanese] if the US cannot deliver.”