Sudanese National Congress Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/sudanese-national-congress/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 27 Dec 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Sudanese National Congress Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/sudanese-national-congress/ 32 32 Sudan says it’s in the middle of an international Muslim power play https://jjcornish.com/2018/12/sudan-says-its-in-the-middle-of-an-international-muslim-power-play/ Thu, 27 Dec 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/12/sudan-says-its-in-the-middle-of-an-international-muslim-power-play/ The Khartoum government says it’s experiencing growing domestic protests because it’s at the centre of an international Muslim power play. It’s blaming Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for fomenting riots and violence that’s cost at least 37 lives. Saudi Arabia and the the UAE want to exclude Turkey from the international Muslim community. […]

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]]> The Khartoum government says it’s experiencing growing domestic protests because it’s at the centre of an international Muslim power play.

It’s blaming Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for fomenting riots and violence that’s cost at least 37 lives.

Saudi Arabia and the the UAE want to exclude Turkey from the international Muslim community.

They offered Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir generous aid if he cut ties with Ankara.

They also made their aid to Sudan conditional on it turning its back on Iran and Qatar.

Al Bashir, who’s an Islamist, refused.

Highly placed advisers in in the ruling Sudanese National Congress say Saudi and UAE support for the protests against a tripling of the bread price and fuel and food shortages is designed to make Al Bashir reconsider.

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