No easy answers in Sudan

In 2021, in what has been described as “a coup within a coup,” the Sudanese military, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, took control of the government. Al-Bashir, the former president, came to power with the promise to end decades of civil war, but that did not come to pass. While he is reported to have negotiated an end to the second Sudan Civil War in 2005, which led to the creation of South Sudan, he was also charged with war crimes, including genocide, for overseeing a conflict in Darfur that reportedly killed 300,000 people and displaced some three million. The civilians are, frankly, no longer relevant,” said Nicholas Coghlan, Canada’s former top envoy to Sudan and its first ambassador to South Sudan. Joly said there were 1,700 Canadians registered with the government as being in Sudan, who the federal government is reaching out to.