SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Washington Post – The coup in Sudan represents a direct challenge for the U.S.

27/10/2021: Washington Post –  The coup in Sudan represents a direct challenge for the U.S.

Warning the “democratic bright spot” in Sudan may be “wiped from the map”, the Washington Post’s (WP) editorial board call for the US to sustain its “unequivocal international rejection of the coup — including by Khartoum’s erstwhile friends and sponsors in Saudi Arabia.”

The WP suggest the military coup represents a direct challenge to the US as it came two days after the US President Joe Biden’s special envoy for the Horn of Africa, Jeffrey Feltman, warned Sudanese military leaders that they were risking the aid and diplomatic legitimacy Sudan regained by embarking on democratic change.

Crediting the US for making good on Feltman’s warning by suspending $700 million in economic aid, the WP suggest that the coup may have triggered by the military fearing the prospect of what a trial of ousted president Omar al-Bashir at the International Criminal Court may reveal about their wider culpability in “genocide” in Darfur.