SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: CNN - President Trump, act now to give democracy a chance in Sudan

24/9/19: CNN - President Trump, act now to give democracy a chance in Sudan, by Jimmy Carter

 Jimmy Carter, the former US President and founder of the peace and health advocacy non-profit Carter Center, calls for the Trump administration to work with Congress to immediately lift Sudan’s terror sponsor designation.

 Carter highlights economic and health consequences from the terror designation – citing Sudan’s inability to access the international banking system, benefit from foreign investment, that other countries cannot aid Sudan without incurring US sanctions, and that critically needed medical supplies are impossible to import.

 Carter warns that failure to repeal the terror designation may disrupt the democratic transition and lead to instability across the Horn of Africa and increase tensions in a Red Sea zone already roiled by the war in Yemen – as prime minister Hamdok’s civilian government vulnerable if continuing economic deprivation leads to popular frustrations boiling over, creating conditions for counterrevolutionary actors to disrupt Sudan’s democratic transition.