In this regard, political analyst Ibrahim Al-Qatabi went - in his talk to the "From Washington" program (1/13/2022) - that the war between the major world powers is primarily economic, but uses regional and local tools in the Middle East and North Africa.
He explained that China has become controlling many regions in a frightening manner for America, considering that the region is in a new colonial era, as he described it, because the major countries are indirectly interfering in the region's affairs and competing over it to serve their interests.
Regarding the crisis in Sudan, the director of Al-Jazeera’s office in Sudan, Al-Muslim Al-Kabashi, said that since the fall of the regime of former Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, the US administration has taken several positions that were calculated in support of the democratic transformation in the country, and among those positions, the administration of former US President Donald Trump raised the name of Sudan from the countries As for the second position, the US Congress approved a bill to support democratic transition, accountability and transparency in Sudan.
However, he considered that these two positions were contrary to the goals he promoted. The first position cost Sudan to purchase about 350 million dollars from the black market, which led to the collapse of the value of the national currency and thus the rise in economic inflation and made the country in a state of constant turmoil.
As for the second situation, when the law stressed the monitoring of the security and intelligence services, which provoked a state of competition and confrontation between the partners of the transitional period (civilians and military).
For his part, the Chief of Staff of the Office of the former US Special Envoy to Sudan considered that it was too early to assess the outcome of America’s policy towards Sudan, but he cautioned that the administration of US President Joe Biden has a lot of hesitation, unlike the previous policy of Washington, as the Biden administration is not trying to influence events on the field. Al-Sudani, but is satisfied with interacting with it, considering that Washington is working without any strategy or goal in Khartoum.
In Yemen, Saeed Thabet, the director of Al Jazeera's office, believed that the Yemenis, since Biden took office, had been counting on a breakthrough in the country's political track, and had played the role of mediator for a settlement of the crisis, but the pace of violence increased and the chaos worsened under the current administration.