SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: US Institute of Peace – Dissecting Sudan’s Coup

27/10/2021: US Institute of Peace –  Dissecting Sudan’s Coup, by Joseph Tucker and Manal Taha

USIP senior Horn of Africa expert Joseph Tucker and Sudan Programme Advisor Manal Taha analyse the consequences of the military coup on Sudan’s democratic development.

Tucker notes that the military may have thought the coup “would at least be tolerated” amid public frustration with political deadlock and impatience with the pace of economic recovery.

With military leader Lt. Gen. Abdulfattah al-Burhan claiming that the new government he will install will consist of politically unaffiliated “technocrats,” Taha notes that this could “widen the current divisions among civilian and political actors, pitting those who join against those deposed”.

Taha further notes that talk of planned elections at the end of the transition is also likely to be controversial because the coup disrupts the transition’s key benchmarks to be met to ensure that institutions, laws and political and civil liberties are in place for an inclusive and fair election.