Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese marched yesterday, two and a half years after the ousting of dictator Omar al-Bashir, in the capital and other cities of Sudan, to demand that "the military protect the revolution, but be put to the 'government gap'.

Civilians and representatives of the army share power, for the time being, until elections are held in early 2024. (…) "We have been led by the army for thirty years and look where we are. led !, exclaims a demonstrator. The soldiers must now stop abusing their power to occupy political office and to enrich themselves ".

 " Today the anger also comes from the fact that people are hungry, often deprive themselves of a meal to feed the children, no longer have gasoline for their car "

However,

, the current economic disaster, with inflation at more than 400%, does not even serve as a motive put forward by the army to take back, alone, the reins of the country. Clearly suggesting that the planned rotation of power that was to cause General al-Burhan to give way to a civilian on November 17 is the real cause of the coup. (...) His coup de force,

Liberation is due above all to the obvious refusal of the army to play the game and to cede the reality of power, political as well as economic, in this immense country which since its independence in 1956 has hardly known anything other than military coups d'etat. repeat, and at least two bloody civil wars in recent times.

the situation had been tense for several weeks,

between the civil and military transitional authorities. On October 16, demonstrators supporting the army pitched their tents in front of the presidential palace where the transitional authorities sit, divided between civilians and soldiers. In response, last Thursday, hundreds of thousands of people marched through several cities to, they said, "save" their "revolution". Since the failed coup attempt on September 21, the transition seemed on the verge of derailing and the generals have stepped up frontal attacks on the "mismanagement" of the Forces for Freedom and Change, the coalition of civilian parties.

quite predictable!"

In Sudan, as in Mali, the soldiers came to steal the popular revolution, by beating civilians who shook the regime in place without succeeding in bringing it down (…). Taking advantage of the contradictions that have always undermined this hybrid transition, the quarrels between politicians, the crises that shook the country in the east, the economic reforms of the International Monetary Fund, unpopular as everywhere, the various shortages of vital foodstuffs, the signing of peace agreements with neighbor Juba, etc., Khartoum's only new strongman, General al-Burhan, reset the counters to zero. »

WakatSéra, “what can the civilian populations do against an army which takes over the reins of the country, feeling its interests threatened, she, whose stranglehold on the Sudanese economy is a real open secret? 

Obviously,

khaki power is no longer the prerogative of West Africa, and it is proof that the soldiers, once they have descended into the arena noisily with rifles, no longer want to leave it. With this putsch, only the mobilization of the Sudanese populations, and the pressure of countries such as the Gulf monarchies (Saudi Arabia, Arab Emirates), Egypt, and especially the United States and France (which had even held a summit in Paris to finance Sudan), only these tutelary and interested powers (Sudan is at the heart of the geostrategic device) can make Al-Burhan and his clique of generals retreat even further. This is proof that no democracy or process towards which it tends in Africa is irreversible, democracy can be called into question at any time