SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune – Burhan, Hamdok sign political agreement on transition in Sudan

21/11/2021: Sudan Tribune – Burhan, Hamdok sign political agreement on transition in Sudan

Sudan Tribune report on the contents of deal signed between Sudan’s army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, which is viewed as legitimising the 25 October coup.

The coup amends the Constitutional Declaration to “ensure comprehensive political participation for all components of society”. These means that two Islamist parties that were allied to regime of Omar al-Bashir - the Popular Congress Party and Reform Now Party can now be represented in the transitional legislative council, having been previously forbidden from doing so. Their participation provides a political base for the military component.

The deal does not indicate who will nominate the “technocrat” civilian government. It also reforms the Tamkeen committee that aimed to retrieve the illicitly gained assets of the former regime by establishing an appeals committee to challenge its decisions.