SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Bloomberg – How Sudan’s Coup Is Threatening Foreign Aid, Path to Democracy
Bloomberg analyse the potential foreign affairs consequences of the military coup in Sudan.
With Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok’s administration achieving progress in ending Sudan’s international isolation and gaining debt-relief,” the goodwill and financial assistance looks set to dissipate, with the U.S. putting a $700 million emergency aid package on hold just hours after the coup.”
The coup could also complicate talks aimed at resolving a standoff over the filling of a giant dam that Ethiopia is building on a tributary of the Nile River, and which threatens to interrupt the water supply downstream in Egypt and Sudan, along raising the potential for conflict with Ethiopia as “a military government in Sudan could also take a more proactive stance in opposing Ethiopia’s claims to land in the al-Fashqa area, which straddles a mutual border”.