As if current crises aren’t enough we are busy making future ones
Sudan's Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (L) and RSF commander, General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo 'Hemedti'. The two anti-democracy generals are unto themselves a curious study in how military forces can hold their country to ransom. PHOTO | ASHRAF SHAZLY | AFP
In a week that witnessed the flareup in Khartoum between rival military formations of the same country, we also got news of a very different type of clashes between two political parties in a province of Zambia.
The two events look very different. The former is an eruption of rivalries tween two generals who have hitherto acted in tandem to thwart, at every turn, the democratic aspirations of the Sudanese people to live under democracy but now, at the point of sharing the spoils, it looks like there is no honour among thieves.
