SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: The Sentry - A Strategy for Revitalizing Sudan’s Democratic Transition
To revive Sudan’s democratic transition, The Sentry call for the establishment of priorities for intelligence collection on those behind the coup, and order to impose targeted financial consequences on those undermining democratic progress.
The Sentry call for: the mapping of security service personnel involved in the coup, collecting financial intelligence on them, thereby providing precise targets for financial pressure and accountability. The Sentry add that that security services’ networks of proxies for involvement in illicit commercial activities is necessary for investigators and intelligence agencies in collecting evidence about the military’s banks, service providers and suppliers.
In addition, the Sentry call for a spotlight on disinformation attempts used by Sudanese counter-revolutionary forces, with governments, technology companies and civil society needing to take steps to expose such activities, and the US government called upon to issue a data call to intelligence agencies that have information about the disinformation campaigns.