By RFIPalled on 19-08-2019Modified 19-08-2019 at 03:50

The names of the civilians who will sit on the Sovereign Council to steer the transition have begun to filter. But the official announcement of its composition (six civilians and five military) has been postponed to Monday, August 19.

Aisha Mousa. It is the name of the only woman who will be part of this Sovereign Council, supposed to oversee the Sudanese transition of three years and three months. Little known, this activist represents the many women very active in this challenge. Among the four other civilians chosen to sit, a physics professor at the University of Khartoum, a member of the Ummah party. But there, too, no front-line personality.

Is this a political strategy? That of keeping the best-known civilians for positions in the future government or to give them the opportunity to be candidates for future elections. This is one of the avenues considered by analysts. " Or is it a wish to send a sign that it is a new wave, a new generation that will take the lead in the country? Asks Anne-Laure Mahé, a researcher at the Strategic Research Institute of the Military School.

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Be that as it may, appointing relatively unknown civilians marks a break dear to the protesters. It remains to know now the identity of the sixth civilian supposed to be a chosen consensus personality with the army. We also expect the names of all five soldiers who will be part of this Council. Its complete composition should be announced on Monday.

On paper, the Sovereign Council, initially chaired by the military for 21 months, and then by civilians, for 18 months, will have limited powers essentially consultative. In the immediate future, he must validate the name of the Prime Minister. Economist Abdalla Hamdok is a favorite. The latter will then have the mission to appoint a transitional government that will quickly get to work after long months of political paralysis. He will then have the difficult task of straightening the economy battered by these months of disputes.

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