SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Guardian – Sudan’s coup has shattered the hopes of its 2019 revolution

2/11/2021: Guardian – Sudan’s coup has shattered the hopes of its 2019 revolution, by Nesrine Malik

Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik argues that Sudan’s military coup leaders – mercenaries, the army and [ex-President Omar al-Bashir-era] business interests…have seized control and will sell Sudan’s resources to the highest bidder”.

Despite the coup triggering the suspension of debt relief that “leaves the economy on its knees,” Mailk argues that “[this] does not concern militaries who are bent on extraction in a country that does not need to thrive for its overlords to prosper,” as “flogging Sudan’s resources and people to the highest bidder is too lucrative a business to give up for a few hundred million dollars of western aid.”

Malik suggests that “Sudan’s new ruling club” will “run Sudan as the host body for a partnership of parasites,” and without transparency or accountability, “will divide national infrastructure and seize and sell raw materials to regional allies, while suppressing Sudan’s marginalised regions.