Sudan in Crisis The Failure of Democracy by G.
Norman Anderson This is the story of how a promising North African democracy, by failing to solve crucial problems both at home and abroad, brought about its own overthrow by Islamic militants. Since gaining independence in 1956, Sudan has repeatedly stumbled in attempts to establish a stable democratic government. Sudan in Crisis tells the story of this failure and seeks to explain its causes. G. Norman Anderson,
former American ambassador, provides a first-hand account
of Sudan’s third try at democracy. He analyzes the
problems plaguing the democratically elected government
of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi--civil war and related
famine, religious and ethnic antagonisms, political
instability, economic deterioration, the presence of
Libyan terrorists--and the ineffective efforts of the
government to cope with them. He also analyzes the
policies of the United States and Sudan during this
period, and cites specific instances in which each helped
to undermine Sudanese democracy--including
Washington’s earlier strong support of Sudanese
dictator Ja’far Numayri and its relatively lukewarm
support of democracy and Sadiq al-Mahdi’s foreign
policy of nonalignment, which favored the extremist
regimes of Libya and Iran while antagonizing potential
friends such as the United States, Egypt, and Saudi
Arabia.
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