Even before our most recent Sudan strategy paper went public yesterday, the Sudanese ambassador to the United Nations had a strong reaction to our recommendations:
"Those war mongers and war traders are in a race with time to stop the peace train which is already moving to its destination. Their report exposes their bankruptcy and the fact that realities on the ground …. defeated their sick mentality."
These remarks are inadvertently revealing – they just go to show that the ruling National Congress Party is living in a dangerously self-constructed reality. This morning we put out a statement enumerating a handful of facts from the ground that contradict the ambassador’s optimistic assessment. Peace train indeed.
Photo: Sudanese ambassador to the United Nations Abdalmahmoud Abdalhaleem