By Brandon Showalter
Nov 18, 2016 | 10:26 AM
Christians and Muslims from both South Sudan and the Nuba and Darfur regions of Sudan are celebrating President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, according to a human rights advocate who has worked extensively in the region.
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(Photo: Reuters)Undated photo of South Sudanese armed forces, women and children.
“For my Sudanese friends, both Christian and Muslim, they were afraid of a Clinton presidency because of her closeness to the Muslim Brotherhood with the Clinton Global Foundation and what’s been coming out about that,” said Faith McDonnell, director of the Religious Liberty Program and Church Alliance for a New Sudan at the Washington D.C.-based Institute on Religion & Democracy, in an interview with The Christian Post on Wednesday.
“They saw [a Clinton victory] as a way for Arab countries to get even more influence than they already have under President Obama,” she added.
McDonnell said earlier this week in an op-ed published in The Stream that she has received emails from both Muslim and Christian friends in South Sudan as well as Sudanese in the United States who are esctatic about the outcome of the election.
One such message, she said, read: “Congratulations, my sister! We are very happy for the election of Donald Trump! Close your eyes and picture the streets of Juba [South Sudan’s capital].”
Juba’s streets were reportedly full of people dancing and chanting “USA, USA” and “Trump, Oyee!” soon after the election results were reported.
McDonnell told CP that other responses she received in her inbox expressed distaste for the former secretary of state’s alleged past financial dealings with Islamic regimes.
“We believe Hillary is corrupt and has constantly received Middle Eastern dictators’ money that have long fought to protect [Sudan’s dictator] al-Bashir. They get money through her foundation to promote the pro-Arab policy that has devastated our people in Darfur and Sudan at large. We are sure that Donald will not take money from Middle Eastern dictators to promote pro-Arab policy, genocidal policy within the Department of State,” said a Darfuri friend of McDonnell’s in an email shared with CP.
South Sudanese Christians in particular are hopeful that a President Trump will examine the situation in South Sudan more fairly than the U.S. has been since the failed coup attempt by former Vice President Riek Machar in December 2013.
“Right now, the U.S. administration is playing
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