SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Washington Post – Sudan’s revolutionaries vow to resist military’s power grab
The Washington Post’s feature piece on the military coup quoted from analyst Magdi el-Gizouli of Rift Valley Institute.
“Al-Burhan might be able to pull this off with the support of…Egypt, the Saudis and the Emiratis…He is not a pariah like [former president Omar ] al-Bashir became, nor is he an Islamist. He will find a new, more pliant civilian face, he will maintain formalities, and the West will simply end up dealing with that person,” el-Gizouli said.
Now that al-Burhan has “definitively severed” his relationship with transitional partners, el-Gizouli noted that he may lean more heavily on Sudan’s rebel groups with whom he signed the Juba peace agreement, thereby convening “a viable set of alternatives to civilian leaders in the country’s peripheries where most of the resources that fuel Sudan’s economy come from”.
Nonetheless, el-Gizouli questioned how al-Burhan can govern cities full of people in “[economic] desperation”.