Their relative equal power and their ambition for total domination have doomed all negotiations since the transition […]. The problem is not the negotiations, but the lack of political will.
Media mentions – Sudan
Hemeti has been courting the Russians most aggressively and they’ve been responding very positively to those overtures
What the UN needs to do if its mediation has a chance of success, is they read the room amongst the civilians.
International efforts will need to redouble in order to dissuade the military from capitalising on Hamdok’s exit to complete their coup
I don’t think the international community considers such a demand realistic
The publication “Khartoum’s autocratic enabler: Russia in Sudan” by Mattia Caniglia and Theodore Murphy is mentioned in an article by Foreign Policy
returning [Hamdok] to power would not serve the purpose of quieting the [protests]
The coup was a terrible catastrophe but if there is any silver lining to be wrung out of it, I think that Hamdok’s calculus was that it gave him an excuse to disperse of the difficult people
If Europe is to maintain this stance, it will have to urgently find ways to square the circle of maintaining fidelity to democracy and healing the split between the prime minister and protest movement