This week, Sudan’s revolution faced its biggest threat since it successfully pushed for the ouster of long-term dictator President Omar el-Bashir in 2019. In retrospect, the 25 October coup in Khartoum was just a matter of time.
Reports of an impending coup had been looming for weeks, even after the country’s leaders announced that they had thwarted an attempted coup in September. Now, despite mounting international pressure, the country’s military leadership headed by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his ally, General Mohammed Hamdan ‘Hemeti’ Dagalo, is in firm control of the country, with many of the civilian leaders