All things Sudan transitions / Founding Director @ Confluence Advisory, a think-and-do-tank in Khartoum / broadcaster and presenter #Spotlight249
Dec 20, 2024 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
Yesterday, the UNSC held a session on #Sudan. A (long)thread🧵
TLDR: the meeting was chaired by Blinken, long session, with a packed room: UNSC members, 3 briefers and 4 extra countries: Sudan, Egypt, Turkey and the UAE also briefed. Little came of it.
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OCHA briefed as did PAEMA which works on preventing atrocities and PoC, who stressed the ongoing crimes and impunity of the RSF but highlighted that sovereignty is a duty as well as a right of states.
So, predictably, today all the SAF fans are after her...not after the RSF.
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Mar 2, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
As Security Sector Reform dominates political conversations in #Sudan worth recognising how SAF uses the language of Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration to avoid reform, despite SSR being the sine qua non of DDR.
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The current conflict between SAF and RSF leadership +
centres on the integration of RSF into SAF.
The issue is that the RSF is both a part of SAF AND has a separate command and control structure.
So SAF's islamists focus on integration of RSF to:
- avoid reform eg through closed door SSR workshop;
- raise the # of soldiers under +
Feb 18, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Beasley has left #Sudan but what does he leave behind?
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First, by declaring that much of Sudan's land is empty and/or unused he has evoked the manifest destiny doctrine, always a violent project, to open the door for private sector investment into the ag sector. NB he's the +
head of a humanitarian organisation.
Second, to justify such a violent project he underscores humanitarian/bread basket analogies as discursive strategies, as @minlayla77 has noted.
For this, he will use all available resources of WFP - again, a humanitarian agency - in #Sudan +
There are worrying signs that the coup alliance is not holding. While many are preoccupied with the divisions amongst the pro dem forces, not enough attention is given to divisions and competing interests between security actors. +
The 2021 coup was staged by Islamists and military actors to i.a. protect financial interests and allay immediate fears of accountability and SSR, respectively. That alliance was reliant on support from a) Islamists and b) JPA signatories.
The coup saw the return of Islamists +
