SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Sudanese shrug shoulders at Political Framework Agreement ‘being touted as end of military rule’

7/12/2022: Radio Dabanga - Sudanese shrug shoulders at Political Framework Agreement ‘being touted as end of military rule’

Radio Dabanga report on mixed perceptions towards the Framework Agreement from Sudan’s resistance committees.

Ashraf Khojali, a member of the Hasaheisa Resistance Committees in al-Jazirah rejects military interference in Sudanese politics and said the agreement took place under “extreme external pressure on [army chief al-Burhan] and the Forces for Freedom and Change.”  

Hozeifa Omar of the Kassala Resistance Committees also opposes the framework agreement and declared adherence to the People's Power Charter supported by resistance committees in many states. 

However, Ismail Kenek from the resistance committees of the Blue Nile region welcomed the signing of the framework agreement. “It fulfils the demands for a radical solution gradually and works to solve crises, especially for the Blue Nile Nuba Mountains region.”

His colleague Osman Ghaboush agreed, saying it is “an acceptable solution that presents a roadmap to get out of the current stalemate,” before calling for “credibility in its implementation.”

SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Al-Sudani - The elections you did not know

7/12/2020: Al-Sudani - The elections you did not know, by Abdullatif al-Booni 

Columnist Abdullatif al-Booni calls for a delay to discussions on forming a legislative council, warning that Sudan’s polarised political situation may replicate the Libyan experience whereby the forming of a post-revolution parliament led to the eruption of civil war.

 Al-Booni argued that the Transitional Partners Council, which was brought about to include rebel groups into transitional government structures, will culminate in a polarised legislative council in which representation quotas will be shared by four components within the transitional government; namely, Alburhan block, Hamdok block, armed movements block and FFC block.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - There are flaws in al-Burhan’s decree on Sudan’s partnership council, Arman says

7/12/2020: Sudan Tribune - There are flaws in al-Burhan’s decree on Sudan’s partnership council, Arman says

 Sudan Tribune report that the vice president of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North Agar faction (SPLM-N Agar), Yasser Arman, said there were flaws in Abdelfattah al-Burhan’s decision to form a Transitional Partners Council (TPC) “that will reproduce the same problems,” calling for more discussions between government parties to resolve difference.

 "The purpose of the council is to avoid confrontation, establishing a solid partnership between the parties to the transition and resolving, but now the council itself has become a crisis," he said.

 While al-Burhan’s TPC decree says it would direct the transitional period, Arman said it should be a council of wise people “with the purpose of resolving the disputes facing the transitional period, in addition to forging a unified political will to resolve major issues and questions."

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Broad opposition against Sudan’s Transitional Partners Council

7/12/2020: Radio Dabanga - Broad opposition against Sudan’s Transitional Partners Council

Radio Dabanga report on broad opposition against the formation of a Transitional Partners Council announced by the head of Abdelfattah al-Burhan.

 The Sudanese Congress Party said the TPC is “unacceptable and does not comply with what has been agreed upon before”. The National Umma Party accused “some parties to have a hidden agenda to try to disrupt the march towards democracy, and try to deviate from the original idea of ​​a Transitional Partners Council in terms of form, competences, and composition”.

 The Sudanese National Alliance called for “freezing the work of the TPC until further consultations have been made”. It seeks “a reasonable representation of women and youth, and all parties to the peace agreement”. Civil society organisations, including the No to Women’s Oppression Initiative in Khartoum, as well as a large number of Resistance Committees also reject the new Partners Council.