If Fighting in Sudan Does Not Stop Soon, This Will Become a MAJOR International Crisis

This could get really, really bad.

Over the weekend, fighting erupted in Khartoum and elsewhere in Sudan. Two rival generals are now vying for control of the state with a full blown civil war looming. This could get very bad, very quickly.

How did we get here?

A few weeks ago, my podcast guest Hala al-Karib predicted something like this would happen. The short story is that back in April 2018, brave protesters and civil society activists helped to oust the nearly 30 year dictatorship of Omar al Bashir. The military generals who removed Bashir soon entered into a power sharing agreement with civilian leaders. The plan was to transition to full civilian control of the government by November 2021. But one month before that deadline two military leaders mounted a coup and purged civilians from the government.

The military leadership soon came under heavy international pressure to return to civilian control; and by all accounts did a terrible job managing Sudan’s frail economy. This lead to the military leaders to enter y…