Sudan: Reported Coup Attempt Complicates an Already-Tenuous Transition

[USIP] On Tuesday, the Sudanese transitional government announced that a coup attempt had been thwarted. While initial details remain difficult to parse from rumor, government officials were quick to claim that individuals connected to the previous regime were responsible -- but that the situation was brought under control. News of the coup attempt complicates the already-tenuous state of Sudan's military-civilian power-sharing agreement, which was established to guide the country toward civilian-led d