Can the Saudi-UAE alliance keep its men in power in Sudan in the face of growing protests against the old regime?
Protesters warn the two oil rich gulf states against"meddling" in their country, with many chanting: “We do not want Saudi aid even if we have to eat beans and falafel!”
“One of the most important dynamics in the current protests is that Sudan is partly a foreign-guided state. Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies are important actors in Sudanese politics,” he explained further. “It is refreshing to see a African Muslim popular movement challenge those rotten regimes,” Samatar toldSudanese experts worry that by pumping money to the country’s rulers, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE will attempt to mould the country’s governance to its liking. hundreds of its soldiers.
Both Saudi Arabia and the UAE have also supported authoritarians and would-be authoritarians in Middle Eastern countries, such as Libya, where they back warlord, and Egypt, where they backed Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s coup against the country’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi.
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