SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Sudan Tribune - Sudan: Dynamics of change and resistance of political parties to change
Calling for state capabilities to be directed towards crisis management and addressing key issues, Hussein Arko Menawi warns that Sudan’s transitional period is at risk due to the ongoing marginalisation of Sudan’s peripheries by Khartoum political parties who “still see politics within conflict over their vested interests.”
Citing the Forces of Freedom and Change’s intensified “competition over narrow privileges” and resistance to peace, Menawi argues that “feverish political competition over power privilege and social class interests” has left Sudanese parties “stuck” in the uprisings of 1964 and 1985*, whereby “political elites were unable to address the roots of the Sudanese crisis.”
Thus, Menawi concludes that Sudanese politics remains “static” and “stuck on old practices…failing to respond to changes while continuing to revolve within the orbit of the same old ideas.”
*Both uprisings heralded brief democratic rule before the military restored power.