Abdalla Hamdok

Hmm

... also there for their own interests, and they needed a, a mediator that they could trust, and they chose a career civil servant called Hamdok.

Right.

And, um- Hamdok had followed my work-

[laughs]

... and got in touch with me and said, "Please, will you help?"

Mm

...

And they needed a mediator that they could trust.

And they chose a career civil servant called Hamdok.

And Hamdok had followed my work and got in touch with me and said, please, will you help? And so the International Growth Center that I co-direct, we sent in a little team to

help.

And we got a year to deliver sufficient benefits for the generals, so they had to be lifted off some of the blacklists, and sufficient benefits for the street, so that Hamdok could say, look, by cooperating, this is working.

We

failed.

Yeah, we can do this But I could never get it into the top three which said we'll do this this month And so it never got done Nobody said we won't do it.

What replaced him was a fragile, shared arrangement.

Generals on one side and a civilian government on the other, led by a mild-mannered economist called Abdullah Hamdok.

And in February of 2020, Israel came calling again.

Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Entebbe in Uganda and met General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of Sudan's army.

The meeting was hosted by Uganda and facilitated by the United Arab Emirates as part of a broader American brokered normalization push.

Sudan's actual prime minister was reportedly not consulted.

Hamdok, the civilian head of government, that is the man leading the democratic transition, he only found out about his own country's foreign policy through the media.

Well, six months later, the Mossad's director, Yossi Cohen, reportedly met Sudan's other general, Mohammed Hamdan Dagolo, known as Hemeti, who commands a paramilitary force called the Rapid Support Forces.