SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Council on Foreign Relations – Sudanese Military Leaders Seize Power, Dissolve Transitional Government
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) call for the US to ensure “as much multilateral solidarity as possible in opposition to the military power-grab, and signalling to Egypt and Gulf powers that support for the coup plotters will have concrete costs.”
CFR attribute the military coup to the military’s “foreceful resistance” of revolutionary goals - reforming the security services and establishing real lines of accountability between the people and their leaders.
CFR argue that it is “no accident that the agreed-upon transfer of Sovereign Council leadership from military to civilian leadership… was averted by the coup, or that efforts to retrieve stolen assets and unwind illicit deals have been a flashpoint for tension”.
Thus, CFR conclude that Sudanese security officials “have consistently worked to manipulate transitional arrangements to avoid losing their privileged status, which entails access to political power, lucrative economic opportunities, and freedom from accountability”.