The American Prospect by MAT NASHED
In the early morning of October 25, Sudan’s top security brass overthrew the civilian-led transitional government to safeguard their economic assets and their impunity to commit grave human rights abuses. Days after the coup, the U.S suspended $700 million in development aid and the World Bank paused $2 billion in planned disbursements. But it’s not enough to reassert American leadership in Sudan, a country that President Trump only saw as another box to check in his Israel-Arab states peacemaking initiative.
Biden’s policy throughout Sudan’s coup and violent political machinations since has been largely absent. There has been the typical slate of condemnations and press statements from the State Department, but not enough to assert the commitment that Secretary of State Tony Blinken has made to human rights as a driver of the administration’s foreign policy.
“All our diplomacy has been undermined by not having an ambassador on the ground. In fact, we haven’t even lived up to our commitment of appointing one,” says Cameron Hudson of the Atlantic Council Africa Center in Washington…
