🇸🇩Sudan Coup
London was uniquely positioned to take the lead on Sudan's transition to democracy - but unwisely ceded the initiative to Washington, writes @mutazamd.
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London was uniquely positioned to take the lead on Sudan's transition to democracy - but unwisely ceded the initiative to Washington, writes @mutazamd.
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telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/2…
✍️"There remains a strong link between Sudan’s upper classes and London, which they consider to be their Western base," writes Ahmad
Sudan’s great political pendulum swings violently from Anglo-inspired democratisers to anti-Western authoritarians, Ahmad writes
✍️"That pendulum swung into the hands of Sudan’s Anglophiles in 2019, for the first time in three decades"
"What these efforts encountered, however, was an offensive indifference from the British establishment.
"Westminster was far too busy negotiating Brexit to care"
"Westminster was far too busy negotiating Brexit to care"
"London could have led the way on this promising democratic experiment in a country which has a soft democratic tradition"
"As it stands, Sudan’s democratic transition is a wrecked project.
"The pendulum has swung back into the hands of authoritarians who stand for everything Britain supposedly opposes"
"The pendulum has swung back into the hands of authoritarians who stand for everything Britain supposedly opposes"
🔴Seven people died of gunshot wounds and 140 were injured after Sudanese armed forces opened fire on protesters following a military coup on Monday
The bloody protests were sparked after the military placed Abdalla Hamdok, the Sudanese prime minister, under house arrest.
🔎Read more on the coup here ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔎Read more on the coup here ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔎Read Mutaz Ahmad’s full comment piece here ⬇️
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