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April 24, 2019|Hassan al-Turabi, Islamism, Omar al-Bashir, Sudan

Reasons for Caution About Sudan

by James R. Rogers|

Omar al-Bashir arrives in Uganda for a diplomatic visit on November 13, 2017 (Sumy Sadurni/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News).
One can certainly hope for the best in Sudan, but the liabilities the country faces in transitioning to peace, let alone to democracy, remain sizable.

June 14, 2017|Al-Bashir, Islamic Terrorism, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan

Could Sudan Become the Next Terror Haven?

by James R. Rogers|

Sudan

Sudan risks becoming another Somalia. Perhaps surprisingly, this risk does not arise from the chaos in the now-independent nation of South Sudan. Rather, conflict continues to simmer in Sudan’s peripheral regions, and not only in Darfur. When the current regime headed by President Omar Al-Bashir ends or collapses, centrifugal political forces, forces intentionally created by Al-Bashir’s government, almost guarantee the country’s government will break into multiple power centers. Each faction will be strong enough to resist defeat, but none will be strong enough to defeat the other power centers. The outcome threatens not only the stability of Sudan and its immediate neighbors, but threatens to unravel stability across Africa’s entire Sudanic belt and to provide a hospitable climate for international terrorism.

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