By RFIPalled on 13-10-2019Modified on 13-10-2019 at 17:33

Sudan has appointed, on Thursday, October 10, at the head of its judicial system, a woman, the first to this post in this country. Former Supreme Court justice, Neemat Abdallah Mohamed Khair now oversees the entire judicial system of the country. Huge challenges lie ahead.

At the end of September, Sudan entered a period of transition after the army's dismissal of Omar al-Bashir on 11 April under popular pressure. Nepat Abdallah Mohamed Khair was appointed head of the Supreme Court by decision of the eleven members of the Sovereign Council who also appointed Taj al-Sir Ali, Attorney General of Sudan.

According to Zainab Mahmoud, a former diplomat and human rights defender, the challenges ahead are enormous.

" She is faced with a double challenge. First of all, there is the society in which some people do not yet accept that a woman can occupy this kind of position at the head of the judicial system, but we will all be behind her - we, the revolutionary men and women - support it and move in the direction of the desired change, even if the obstacles are numerous and more than we can imagine, "she said.

" The Sudanese judicial system of al-Bashir is completely rotten. The old regime killed justice. There are also the difficulties that come from the deep state, the fixed mentality of some religious men and even the prejudices of the simpler people who can not accept that a woman occupies such a position. Added to all this is the need to completely reform the judicial system, to train judges. This is another problem, "added Zainab Mahmoud.

" A very good news "

Sudan's Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok wants to push Sudan towards gender equality. For Raphaëlle Chevrillon-Guibert, researcher at the Research and Development Institute (IRD), this change marks a point for civil society.

That's very good news. [...] The role of this supreme head of the judiciary and the public prosecutor will still be to look at everything that is corruption and obviously to conduct all the very complicated investigations around the massacres that took place during the periods of the protests.

Raphaëlle Chevrillon Guibert

13-10-2019 - By Houda Ibrahim

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