SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Foreign Policy – To Safeguard Sudan’s Democratic Transition, Act Now

3/1/2022: Foreign Policy – To Safeguard Sudan’s Democratic Transition, Act Now, by Amgad Fareid

Amgad Fareid, former assistant chief of staff to ex-Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, calls for the “meaningful engagement of the voices of resistance committees” in an internationally facilitated and inclusive political process to begin Sudan’s renewed political transition.

Faried warns that, in the moment of crisis, there is a risk that Sudanese political elites will repeat their previous mistakes and negotiate a deal behind closed doors that falls short of public hopes.

Therefore, he suggests that it is “essential” to include new influential forces that had the loudest voices in resisting the coup, such as resistance committees, arguing that their inclusion “can prevent a recourse to empty slogans and further division.”

Faried then concludes that “the cost of establishing and mediating a proper political process that includes all Sudanese actors now is immeasurably cheaper than the costs and consequences of allowing the collapse of the democratic transition in Sudan later.”