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The dubious phenomenon sweeping across Africa's politics


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We must stay clear of rejoicing over Sudan's supposed revolution, this according to Journalist Ray Mwareya. He says there is a new, dubious phenomenon sweeping across Africa's politics - army generals, pretending to defect or switch sides at the 11th hour of a people's revolt, and then suddenly grabbing the outcome - and throttling the result. Mwareya says Sudan's Omar al-Bashir's dramatic toppling in today's street protests via an army putsch is not his departure as the security web he carefully nurtured over 30 years, remains very much alive…

GUEST: Ray Mwareya, who is a Journalist and a fellow of PEN America "Artists at Risk Connection", writer and receiver of the 2016 UN Correspondents Association Media Prize.
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