Sudan’s fragile transition boosted by turnaround in ties with US, Israel
Khartoum is also a key broker in the Nile River dam talks with Egypt and Ethiopia.
Is Arab Spring sequel emerging in Sudan?
In case you missed it, Sudan is one of a few Arab countries — including Iraq, Lebanon and Algeria — that has seen the beginnings of what looks increasingly like a sequel to the Arab Spring demonstrations that began 10 years ago this month in Tunisia.
Starting two years ago, protesters, many of them young, took to the streets to demand a new social contract based on transparency and accountability, as well as jobs and decent government services.
Although the sequel isn’t the full-scale, to-the-ramparts protests of the first Arab Spring that began in Tunisia in December 2010 and spread to Egypt, Syria, Libya and throughout the region, the impact of the latest populist movements is already apparent, despite the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic.
