SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: World Politics Review - Why Sudan’s Democratic Transition Depends on Stability in Darfur
Wibke Hansen, the lead analyst at the Center for International Peace and Volker Perthes, the director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, call on the UN Security Council to extend a residual peacekeeping presence in Jebel Marra in Darfur.
Arguing that Sudan’s democratic transition requires a commitment to upholding security in Darfur, Hansen and Perthes note the sentiments of citizens of Jebel Marra region, who “underlined that [political changes in Khartoum] had not yet reached them,” as they are dealing with the same armed actors as before Omar al-Bashir’s ouster.