Analysis: Can Sudan’s civilian leaders save their country from collapse?

Sudan's civilian movement has played a large role in the country's politics in recent years, but its political leaders currently find themselves sidelined [File: Mahmoud Hjaj/Anadolu]

Months into a ruinous war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), many Sudanese people have been surprisingly less than welcoming about the re-emergence of the civilian coalition that was part of the country’s 2019 revolution.

In July, one of the leaders of that civilian movement, former Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, appeared at a regional summit, after two years of absence from the political scene.