SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Foreign Policy - How Darfur Became Sudan’s Kingmaker

9/7/19: Foreign Policy - How Darfur Became Sudan’s Kingmaker, by Jerome Tubiana

 Jerome Tubiana calls for those who have faith in a Sudanese democratic transition to worry about one section of society (the center) still dominating the other (the peripheries), raising the possibility of Sudan’s need to a transition from a centralized to a “truly national state.”

 Tubiana argues that Himedti is poised to exploit how Sudan’s security apparatus and the protester movement is dominated by the Arabs of the center, while the peripheries feel oppressed by the former and neglected by the latter. Thus, Himedti has “appeared ready to strike a partnership among all Sudanese on the periphery against the center,” in his attempts to enlarge his constituency beyond Darfur’s Arabs.

 Thus, Darfuri rebels are said to be open to working with Himedti, given that they criticised the recent power-sharing deal “as yet another incarnation of the center’s domination on the peripheries.”