Hager Ali

GIGA-Forscherin und Sudan-Expertin Hager Ali erklärt außenpolitische Interessen am Sudan, und die taktische Rolle der Russischen Wagner Gruppe im Machtkampf zwischen Al-Burhan und Daglao.

Alongside the fighting in Sudan, there’s a battle of narratives while grassroots are pushing information out. The two generals are pushing their narratives on social media and jostling for command of the state-run airwaves. Interview with GIGA researcher Hager Ali.

In Sudan’s protracted war, Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo’s Rapid Support Forces outmanoeuvred Abdelfattah Al-Burhan’s Armed Forces through sabotage, new weapons, and broader networks. But as regional actors and local militia hijack the war’s original power-struggle, frontlines and command chains shattered.

Dissolving former ruling parties and purging institutions breaks with old regimes. But, Hager Ali, building strong political parties to govern after ousting long-time rulers takes far more time than new incumbents have, especially when they face severe crises.

In this article, Hager Ali (GIGA), Salah Ben Hammou, and Jonathan Powell (University of Central Florida) investigate how armies re-entrench their power after thwarting democratic transitions.

The study of regime types, Hager Ali argues, is imbalanced. Theories and concepts of democracy have received attention for decades. But amid the resurgence of autocracies, scholars of authoritarianism still do not have the luxury of nuanced typologies to dissect the broad spectrum of non-democratic regimes.

How do the rival Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces stack up against each other, and what might happen next? In this guest article for Aljazeera English, Hager Ali analyses the political and military roles of the two parties within Sudan's political system, and how their tactical specializations play out in the fighting in Khartoum today. 

GIGA-Forscherin und Sudan-Expertin Hager Ali erklärt außenpolitische Interessen am Sudan, und die taktische Rolle der Russischen Wagner Gruppe im Machtkampf zwischen Al-Burhan und Daglao.

Alongside the fighting in Sudan, there’s a battle of narratives while grassroots are pushing information out. The two generals are pushing their narratives on social media and jostling for command of the state-run airwaves. Interview with GIGA researcher Hager Ali.