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Reading about the current situation in Sudan is wild.
So apparently they had a dictatorship which ended with some major protests, and turned into a power sharing agreement between the military (who helped topple the dictatorship) and democracy.
The military got annoyed by some of the changes so they did a coup, arrested the prime minister and declared that they were in charge.
They were immediately met by protests so big, that they felt fire under they asses and now let the PM out declaring they want to go back to essentially the previous power-sharing agreement.
But the other forces also see the fire, so they are doing a very parent move and going "If you don't know how to share it, you cannot have it at all.".
I have no idea how this will turn out in the end, but I love the energy.
Obviously this is all extremely violent and people died, so that massively sucks, but there might be some hope for a proper and accelerated democratic transition.
I am very interested in opinions form people who know more about #Sudan (see CW), although I dunno how much of that is possible on Fedi.
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When the damn military seizes power, almost all is lost!
The damn Sudanese military leaders learned from the neighboring Egypt, and its military leaders.. when the 62 year old, freely elected President was put in solitary confinement for six years, until he died!
Needless to say, Egypt is being robbed blind by all the military leaders, specially by general sisi and his own family!!!
There are "whispers" that sisi was given the green light by certain western states to coup, and destroy all signs of democracy in a country that neighbors israel AND the Gaza strip!!!
completely uninformed political commentary, violence
@Firaas Ah, I've been wondering why some of the protest signs referred to Egypt in the reports, that makes sense now. Thanks!