“Continued military dominance is not only a tremendously unpopular idea in Sudan, it is also an impediment to critical economic reforms. Only a combination of popular resistance and continued international pressure can salvage the revolution that Sudanese citizens began in 2018, and the path to genuine democracy and accountability will be difficult even in the best of circumstances,” CFR’s Michelle Gavin writes.
 
“It’s time for the deployment of an international mediator who can do the job Hamdok was incapable of—finding political compromise between the military, the street and the [pro-democracy alliance Forces of Freedom and Change], to rewrite a roadmap for going forward,” the Atlantic Council’s Cameron Hudson tweets.