‘Back to square one’: After US sanctions lift, Sudan doubles down on repression
The government in Khartoum has taken the lifting of US sanctions as a green light to crackdown on activists and journalists, say analysts
KHARTOUM - The Sudanese government eased up on its crackdown against opposition activists and journalists in the period before the US lifted sanctions against the country, but is now returning to its old ways, observers say.
In October, Sudanese economists and politicians welcomed the lifting of the US sanctions, which had been in place for two decades.
In addition to easing its domestic repression, the government was unusually reserved in its verbal attacks against the West, particularly the US, while negotiations over the sanctions were ongoing.
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Why would we do this? People in the comments say, Sudan, whose leaders I don't think are good people, sent troops to fight in Yemen for Saudi Arabia. This may well be why. It sounds plausible, I don't know if they lost as many of the soldiers as one of the posters say. Something to be aware of. We have some Sudanese in our neighborhood. What's happened over there in the past sounds pretty bad.
Wars with no end in sight.
