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Title:Sudan: a cause for concern
Author:Robison, G.
Year:1992
Periodical:The World Today: Chatham House Review
Volume:48
Issue:4
Pages:61-64
Language:English
Geographic term:Sudan
Subjects:political change
foreign policy
Abstract:As the third anniversary of the 'revolution' approaches, General Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, President of Sudan, and the Islamic fundamentalists who are the real power behind his regime, find themselves facing the results of a third year of drought from a position that is, if anything, even more isolated than it was a year ago. The situation is dire precisely because the government has few friends on whom it can call. Having acquired a reputation for hostility toward the West in general, and Western aid agencies in particular, General Al-Bashir's regime now finds itself bereft of friends in the developed world. In the Arab world the Sudan's support of Iraq throughout the Gulf crisis has left it with few friends other than Libya, Iraq and Yemen. Increasingly close ties with Iran have done little to improve this state of affairs and have probably accelerated the deterioration of Sudan's already strained relationship with Egypt. How is it that the Sudan has come to be in its present mess? Conventional wisdom now holds that the country's main fundamentalist movement, the National Islamic Front (NIF), merely used the army as a vehicle for a broader plan to take over the government. A climate of fear and mistrust has settled over the capital and the government is increasingly operating along overtly religious lines. This is evident from religious discrimination and the President's unwillingness to suspend 'sharia' (Islamic law). Note, ref.
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