Former Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir. Picture: REUTERS/MOHAMED NURELDIN ABDALLAHA year after one of Africa’s longest serving leaders, Omar al-Bashir, was ousted from power in the face of mass street protests, Sudan is still reeling from daunting crises including deep economic woes.
Authorities have also agreed that Bashir should stand trial before the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide and war crimes committed from 2003 in the Darfur conflict between the Arab-dominated government and ethnic minority rebels. “By far the main challenge facing the transitional period is the very same constellation of factors that contributed to the demise of Bashir’s rule,” said Magdi el-Gizouli of the Rift Valley Institute. The main problems Sudan’s new leaders now face, he said, are the “reconstitution of the political order ... the deep and punishing economic crisis and the multiplying costs of maintaining social peace”.
Hamdok’s administration is now hoping that the lifting of US sanctions on 157 Sudanese firms in March will help attract foreign investment, but the future still looks grim. Households still suffer frequent power cuts and some Sudanese still queue for hours to buy staple foods or petrol. Authorities said in February that they had agreed to compensate families of the victims of the USS Cole bombing in Yemen’s Aden harbour, for which Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility. The US said the bombers who carried out the attack in 2000 were supported and trained in Sudan.
In January, five people, including two soldiers ,were killed when Sudanese troops crushed a rebellion by Bashir loyalists at the long-feared security agency who were angered by a retirement plan. And in March, Hamdok survived unharmed after an unclaimed bomb and gun attack targeted his convoy in Khartoum.
They will contnue so, just like Lybia, Iraq, somalia, Somalialand and many others. This thing of just ousting leaders causes more damage than good.
Usually removing a dictator leaves a leadership vacuum, nothing will change there. 🤷🏾♂️
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