Since August last year a transitional government has taken over the reins of power in Sudan.
In August, Sudan formed a technocratic government on the back of a power-sharing deal between top military brass and protest leaders.
But the political transition to full civilian rule is fragile in a country where a creaking economy risks a collapse that could spark fresh social unrest.
Sudan is still reeling from daunting crises including deep economic woes a year after one of Africa’s longest serving leaders, Omar al-Bashir, was ousted from power in the face of mass street protests.
Bashir was overthrown on April 11, 2019 by the military, which was responding to mounting public anger against his three decades of iron-fisted rule.
The protests against Bashir erupted in December 2018 after the government in effect tripled the price of bread.
The main problems Sudan’s new leaders now face, he said, are the “reconstitution of the political order… the deep and punishing economic crisis and the multiplying costs of maintaining social peace”.
Sudan’s economy, already suffering from long-running US sanctions, was badly hit in 2011 when oil-rich South Sudan broke away in a negotiated divorce with Bashir’s government.
