File Under: Color Me Unsurprised.
Sudan’s National Electoral Commission has announced that this year’s scheduled presidential and parliamentary elections, mandated by 2005’s Comprehensive Peace Agreements, have been postponed until 2010. Sudan has not had a general election since 1986.
Khartoum’s thugs have no interest in giving up power or even in having to have that power validated. That was obviously the case before the International Criminal Court brought charges against President Omas al-Bashir. Why on earth would the situation have changed in the wake of those charges?