SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Multiple sources – Analysts react to Sudan power-sharing deal

17/7/19: Multiple sources – Analysts react to Sudan power-sharing deal

• Financial Times, by Tom Wilson

• Bloomberg, by Mohammed Alamin and Tarek El-Tablawy

Analysts quoted in tier-1 broadsheets have cast skepticism over the chances of Sudan’s power-sharing deal delivering civilian rule.  

 Horn of Africa analyst Rashid Abdi told the Financial Times: “we should be under no illusions, 21 months is a long time and there is a lot of fear that the military will use this period to eviscerate the opposition and further consolidate power.”

 Alan Boswell, an analyst at the International Crisis Group, called for “coordinated pressure across continents” to keep Sudan’s power-sharing deal on track, telling Bloomberg that the deal will not be sufficient on its own in bringing Sudan back from the brink, although it “prevents the worst.”