From Democracy Digest:

Sudan’s deep state still poses a threat to the democratic process and fixing the security question remains a priority for the transition to work, observers suggest.

There have been a number of signs suggesting that Sudan’s leadership needs to accelerate the dismantling of the country’s internal security structures. And that it needs to develop a clear strategy on how they will work, and who will manage them, say analysts Andrew Edward Tchie and Jihad Salih Mashamoun. The most recent signal was a mutiny by the operation units of the General Intelligence Directorate on 14 December, 2019. The mutiny demonstrates that disbanding the roots of the security apparatus, and the deep state will take longer than the three-year transitional period, they write for The Africa Report:…

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