SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Atlantic Council – Sudan’s coup wasn’t a failure of US diplomacy. It was the dawn of a new era in Africa
Directed at the US government, Atlantic Council senior fellow Cameron Hudson proposes various solutions to support Sudanese aspirations for a civilian-led democratic government including:
Targeted measures against military leaders and their domestic and foreign political allies that undermined civilian rule.
Redouble efforts to support Sudan’s “vibrant civil society groups,
virtually the last hope for revolution, by funnelling money to sustain their work and skirt the military’s insidious control of the internet”.
For the US State Department to designate the Rapid Support Forces a “Foreign Terrorist Organization”
Lastly, “as odious as it may be,” Hudson suggests openness to the possibility of “
facilitating a soft landing for military leaders in exchange for their exit from the political and economic space they control,” as “legislation absolving military leaders of past crimes and granting them immunity…may be required to send the army back to the barracks”.