Brookings Doha Center
It would not only be disappointing to see the Sudanese people’s organic revolution get hijacked by foreign agendas, it would be deeply destabilizing… Sudan cannot become yet another battlefield in a larger proxy war between Middle Eastern rivals.
North Africa: New Elections, Old Problems?
Washington may be the only actor that can corral international players and help ensure a transition is beholden only to the Sudanese people. But right now, it is sitting on the sidelines.
An End to the “Endless War?” Prospects for Stability and Reconciliation in Afghanistan
[On the Sudanese political upheavals] This isn’t an unfamiliar situation when a strongman falls… The linchpin is removed, and you get the remnants of the regime jockeying for survival.
These kinds of anti-government demonstrations [in Sudan] are not new, but this time a much wider swath of society is involved … including professional classes who for decades were either driven overseas or co-opted by the regime…This is unprecedented. We are in a new landscape now.
