SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Financial Times - Sudan is tumbling into the Somalia trap

17/6/2024: Financial Times - Sudan is tumbling into the Somalia trap, by Andres Schipani

The FT’s Andres Schipani warns that Sudan is following the path of Somalia, whereby “two factions [splintered] into many, sucking in foreign powers, spreading violence and man-made famine and opening the floodgates for hardline Islamists and jihadi militants linked to al-Qaeda”.

Amjed Farid, a former special adviser to ex-prime minister Abdalla Hamdok, warned the war could last another decade “unless there is a united civilian front that can bring everyone together to work on stopping the war”. If the slide continues, he warned, “there’s no coming back for Sudan”.