OPINIONISTA: We must stay clear of rejoicing over Sudan’s supposed revolution

There is a new, dubious phenomenon sweeping across Africa’s politics — army generals, pretending to defect or switch sides at the 11th hour of a people’s revolt, and then suddenly grabbing the outcome — and throttling the result. False change of guards in outcomes in Egypt , Zimbabwe , perhaps Algeria now and DR Congo , means we ought to be suspicious of reading too much into Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir’s dramatic departure.

— as unlawful killings, rape and impunity resurrected in Zimbabwe — a lesson has been learnt. We quickly found out that however hungry people are for change, a military takeover never oils the cause of democracy., says today on the eve of the Bashir ousting: “ Indeed — In the last 12 months, armies have chased three presidents in Africa out of office — in Zimbabwe, Algeria and Sudan. Africa’s armies, it seems, have found a clever way to pre-empt peoples’ revolutions. The formula is: watch the uprising grow, pretend to bless the revolution at the 11th hour, act as if in sync with angry masses, commit a coup against the president, and seize the result. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Egypt put this classic template to brutally effective use in 2014.

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