A Sudanese gathering outside the country proposes a third way

A glimmer of hope was provided this week by ordinary Sudanese civilians rather than the two armed forces battling for supremacy on the ground. On May 27th, to the sound of joyous ululations, the “Co-ordination Body of the Democratic Civil Forces of Sudan”, more snappily known as Tagadom, began a four-day convention in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Chaired by Abdalla Hamdok, Sudan’s last civilian prime minister, Tagadom seeks to rally as wide a coalition of Sudanese as possible to stop the civil war and return the country to civilian rule.