Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir yesterday appointed a new government and new governors for all military states. He issued two republican decrees appointing the first pillar of Awad Mohamed Ahmed bin Auf as first deputy president and defense minister and appointing Dr. Mohammad Taher Ela as prime minister. On Sunday, the state of emergency for a year, while rejected the Umma Party, the largest opposition parties in Sudan, yesterday, the declaration of a state of emergency, stressing that the demonstrators will continue to move until the end of the rule of three decades.
According to the Sudanese news agency SUNA, al-Bashir issued decrees to dissolve the National Council of Ministers, appointing secretaries-general and deputy ministers to discharge the duties of their ministries, as well as assigning ministers to posts: Fazl Abdullah, minister of the presidency, Saad Omar, Minister of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Dardairi Mohamed Ahmed as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Mohammed Ahmed Salim as Minister of Justice, in addition to assigning military personnel to the positions of governors of the 18 states of Sudan.
On the other hand, the Umma Party, the largest opposition party in Sudan, rejected Bashir's declaration of a state of emergency, stressing that the demonstrators will continue their movement until the end of the three-decade rule.
"The solution of governments and the imposition of emergency is a repeat of the failure that has been present for 30 years," the Umma Party said in a statement. "The rebellious street will only accept the demands of the regime's departure."
The Umma Party led by Sadiq al-Mahdi, who was prime minister when al-Bashir took power in 1989, threw his weight behind the protests. The party signed the "Freedom and Change" document signed by the Communist Party and many other opposition groups in various regions of Sudan. After the rule of Bashir, including the reconstruction of the judiciary and stop the economic deterioration, which is the main cause of the protests.
The security authorities in Khartoum yesterday night arrested a group of doctors from a "shared residence" in the heart of the capital, and arrested the editor of the Sudanese newspaper Othman Mirghani from inside the newspaper's headquarters and took him to an unknown destination.
The arrest campaign followed Bashir's speech, and the Central Committee of Physicians said in a statement that a security force stormed the largest joint housing for doctors in Khartoum, and arrested all of the doctors, after they threw tear gas against the backdrop of protests carried out immediately after Bashir's speech.
Before the speech, witnesses said security forces fired teargas to disperse at least 200 protesters in Khartoum, while the Sudanese Workers' Gathering, the main organizer of the protests, called for more protests.
The demonstrations in several neighborhoods in the Sudanese capital Khartoum immediately after Bashir's speech, according to eyewitnesses, the demonstrations broke out in several neighborhoods in the south and east of Khartoum, beside neighborhoods in the city of Omdurman west of the capital, as well as neighborhoods in the north of Khartoum, to express their rejection of the package resolutions President Bashir and Sudanese police dispersed the demonstrations with tear gas.
Bashir stressed in his speech that the new government must take firm economic action, and will assign this task to qualified team, and encouraged the opposition to move forward and engage in dialogue, calling on opposition forces that are still out of the process of national reconciliation and his document to move forward and engage in consultation on issues The current situation and the future, through a dialogue mechanism agreed upon.
The demonstrations began in Sudan last December 19, in protest against the government raising the price of baguette three times, and quickly turned into protests in which bloody confrontations against the government, and organized protests Sudanese professionals, including teachers, doctors and engineers, and officials say 31 people were killed in related violence And human rights organizations say the death toll is at least 51.
Two weeks before the protests broke out, a majority of MPs backed a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow Bashir to seek a new term, but the parliamentary committee charged with amending the constitution said a week ago that it would indefinitely postpone a meeting on drafting such amendments. In order to postpone the consideration of the constitutional amendments presented to him, he opened the door to enriching political life with constructive dialogue and national initiatives. He pledged to be one distance between all loyalists and opponents, in accordance with the principle of justice and transparency and the broadness of the nation.