SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: New York Times - In Sudan, a Power-Sharing Deal Propelled by a Secret Meeting and Public Rage
Declan Walsh’s feature piece reports on a “tense” secret meeting in Khartoum which “shaped” the Sudanese power-sharing agreement, as diplomats from the US, UK, UAE and Saudi Arabia convened Sudan’s military and protest leaders for their first meeting since the June 3 massacre.
Walsh writes that “the sudden interest of the Saudis and Emiratis in bringing the two sides together was prompted by [Himedti’s] brutal tactics, which apparently went too far.” Saudi and Emirati officials “claimed to be aghast at suggestions that they had greenlighted the violence,” and thus “quietly” joined Western diplomatic efforts to find a negotiated Sudanese solution.