For the last three decades Bahir’s government drowned Sudan into a dictatorship, after Sudan’s former President, Omar Hassan al-Bashir fell from the power in 2019, Sudan is moving forward through a transitional democracy process, planning to win democratic election in 2022, during present period they have been looking restauration of freedom of the assembly, press and speech, but in fact is not an easy way for Sudanese people who have been dealing with many difficult issues amid the post-Bashir period, such as Sudanese military’s abuses to Covid-19. Regarding the Sudan’s goal to aim democracy path; it needs urgent measures to strengthen their weak economy, improve international relationship and gain support from the US and others influence countries.
Nowadays Sudan is struggling with the one the biggest obstacles to recover their economy, due to sanctions imposed in 1993 from Washington aimed at punishment during Bahir’s government when the US labeled Sudan at state sponsor of terrorism and supported Osama Bin Laden. In 2020 Trump’s government have approached to the issue disregarding the significant ways in which Sudan has changed its policies both domestically and internationally, trying to make a quid pro quo deal with Khartoum where Trump required from them normalize relations with the Jewish state in exchange to remove Sudan from the State Sponsor of terrorism (SST) list.
Sudan’s economic situation and COVID-19 crisis has affected the country’s movement towards democracy, in the present they are stuck into the Trump’s government inertia to make a decision from Washington to remove them from the SST list, allowing Sudan’s economy to increase by trading also giving to Sudanese civil society an opportunity to regrow after being harshly oppressed under Bashir’s rule.