By RFPosted on 20-08-2019Modified on 20-08-2019 at 22:59
The generals and leaders of the protest announced Tuesday, August 20 the formation of the Sovereign Council that will drive the transition from Sudan to three years and three months.
This time, the transition to a civilian power is underway in Sudan. With two days late , the list of eleven members (six civilians and five military) of the Sovereign Council was announced by Chamseddine Kabbachi, a spokesman for the Transitional Military Council, Tuesday evening, in a televised address.
The Sovereign Council will be chaired for 21 months by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, current head of the Transitional Military Council who took the reins of the country after the eviction by the army in April of President Omar el-Bashir after three decades to be able to.
" The President of the Sovereign Council will be invested tomorrow (Wednesday) morning at 11am, " said General Chamseddine Kabbachi.
As stipulated by the agreement signed Saturday between the military and the protest, General al-Burhan will then give way to a civilian for the remaining 18 months of the transition. A transition period which must then lead to democratic elections in 2022.
Among the civilians appointed to the Sovereign Council are two women, one of whom is from the country's Christian Coptic minority.
The Sovereign Council still has to confirm the validation as Prime Minister the candidate presented by the challenge, the economist Abdalla Hamdok . The latter will then form a government whose composition is to be announced on August 28th.
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