The episode discusses the repercussions of the Sudanese Sovereign Council’s issuance of a decree granting the regions of Blue Nile and South Kordofan autonomy on the unity of Sudan in light of the growing regional demands, and it questions the future of this sequence of secession (Southern Sudan) and autonomy.
It also discusses whether the Sovereignty Council in the transitional period is authorized to take such fateful decisions that concern the unity of the state, which are usually the prerogatives of institutions that have popular legitimacy in normal and not transitional circumstances.
Listen to the story in this episode from yesterday on the Al-Jazeera podcast, with Khadija Ben Qena and her guest Youssef Al-Jalal, the Sudanese writer and researcher.