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The inevitable necessity to improve the current political process to face reality instead of drowning in conceptual exercises

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The inevitable necessity to improve the current political process to face reality instead of drowning in conceptual exercises Amgad Fareid Eltayeb   The escalating polarization between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, as well as the state of mobilization and counter-mobilization with statements and military forces, revealed a fundamental flaw in the design of the political process, which, in its current form, increased the risks of instability rather than reducing them. These events also demonstrated the falsehood of the theory held by a number of actors in the local political milieu and the corridors of the international community that the political crisis is a result of divisions between the civilians. But, the present situation demonstrates beyond any reasonable doubt that the military-military rivalry poses the biggest threat to the nation. Without delving into the debate over the roots and causes of the imbalance in the design of the political process, which made i...

The Labyrinth of the Democratic Transition in Sudan

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The Labyrinth of the Democratic Transition in Sudan   By: Amgad Fareid Eltayeb On October 25, joint military forces moved to seize power in Sudan. They arrested dozens of politicians and government officials Including Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, the civilian member of the Sovereignty Council, Muhammad Suleiman Al-Faki, and the Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Khalid Omer Yousif. Army’s Commander-in-Chief, Lieutenant-General Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan authorized himself to exercise the powers of the Sovereignty Council and the Cabinet. Consequently, he dissolved the Sovereignty Council and the Cabinet, froze several articles of the constitutional document, dissolved professional associations and trade unions, shut down Internet, among other classic decisions of any coup. This effectively ended the transitional period that began in August 2019 after the people’s revolution toppled the Islamic regime of Al-Bashir in April 2019. The transitional period started by an agreement between ...