Sudan's military coup: Is this the end of the democratic revolution?

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The civilian component of Sudan’s transitional government served as an “anchor point of accountability to the military, and they’ve now been removed, which means that the military has probably established itself as the power broker in the country,” Dr Andreas Krieg, an assistant professor at the School of Security Studies at King’s College London, told TNA.

Burhan has close ties to the Arab world’s counter-revolutionary bloc. Indeed, such links are well-known. Cairo and Abu Dhabi “will be dominating the post-coup environment and already have the most sustainable relations in the country,” argued Dr Krieg.

Like Tunisian President Kais Saied’s Napoleonic power-grab, this latest coup in Khartoum speaks to the UAE’s ability to effectively engage Arab/African states and build sustainable networks with powerful institutions in these countries such as, in Sudan’s case, the military. “That the [Sudanese] military is now in charge means that the UAE is really in charge by proxy or surrogate,” argued Dr Krieg.

Period	26 Oct 2021
Held at	The New Arab, United Kingdom