Land and power grabbing: the Gulf stakes in Sudan
In April, anti-government Sudanese protestors rose up against the 30 year long dictatorship of Omar Al-Bashir, successfully removing him from power but falling short of evading a Saudi and Emirati-backed military dictatorship cooptation. Since al-Bashir’s ouster, the interim rule of the Transnational Military Council, led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has been challenged by demonstrators as an unsatisfactory result of Al-Bashir’s ouster unsatisfactory to the popular demands of civilian rule.
