Sudan is one of the most dangerous places in the world to deliver humanitarian assistance. It is also home to one of the most chronically underfunded.
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Five years since the Mali coup of 2020, the key lesson is that the international community must move beyond the view of coups as isolated events.
Hopes for a peaceful resolution are fading as the Sudan civil war blazes into a second year.
An African-led process would take into account complex regional dynamics – which would lead to a better and more stable peace agreement.
The Sudan army’s superiority is in its air force and arsenal of ground forces while the rival paramilitary force relies on nimble mobile units.
Sudan’s location and natural resources have attracted international partners keen to benefit either geopolitically or economically.
Sudan’s neighbours are urging restraint, favouring more business, less war. Both generals are aware the longer the situation goes on, the more unsustainable it will become.
The military takeover and arrest of activists may well bring Sudan’s divided opposition together.
Nation-building is hard, but the alternative is worse. In the wake of Sudan’s coup, the rest of the world needs to act fast, before it is too late.
Sudan has needed and will require compromise and principled political goodwill to realise a difficult transition from military rule.
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