SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: New York Times – This Is How to Stop the Coup in Sudan

29/10/2021: New York Times – This Is How to Stop the Coup in Sudan, by Killian Clarke and Mai Hassan

Arguing that the combination of protests and geopolitics could reverse the military coup, political experts Killian Clarke and Mai Hassan suggest that the US does its utmost to avoid a repeat of the failure of Egypt’s democratic attempts through “sanctions that target the coup leaders directly,” and using its alliances with “Gulf powers to halt any support, not least financial, that the coup leaders may receive from these governments”.

Clarke and Hassan suggest “there are reasons for hope in Sudan,” citing that the fissures in the revolutionary coalition are not as “severe as they were in Egypt,” where “many members of the secularist wing openly backed the military,” whereas in Sudan, the coup has only been supported by the breakaway National Accord faction of the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC-NA).