After months of negotiations, a new government for Sudan
The Prime Minister of Sudan, Abdallah Hamdok (here in Berlin in February 2020) announced on February 8 the list of members of his new government resulting from the peace agreement of October 2020. REUTERS - HANNIBAL HANSCHKE
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After months of negotiations, Sudan has a new government that includes ministers from different armed groups, including Darfur.
A peace agreement was signed last October between the transitional government - which succeeded Omar al-Bashir - and the Sudanese Revolutionary Front, a coalition of five rebel groups and four political movements with a view to an inclusive government.
The announcement of this government was made in the evening yesterday Monday by Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok.
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The announcement of this government was made in the evening yesterday Monday by Prime Minister
Abdallah Hamdok
.
Seven members of armed groups are therefore joining this new government.
Among them,
Djibril Ibrahim,
a former rebel leader of the Movement for Justice and Equality (JEM), present in Darfur - who becomes Minister of Finance.
In total this new government includes twenty-five ministries, whose members are former rebel leaders, soldiers and members of the opposition under Omar al-Bashir.
Another well-known figure of this executive is Maryam al-Mahdi, daughter of the last democratically elected Prime Minister of Sudan, Sadeq al-Mahdi, overthrown by Bashir's coup in 1989 and who
died last November
.
She gets the Foreign Affairs portfolio.
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Two ministers come from the army and the seventeen others from the movement of the Forces for Freedom and Change, the engine of the popular movement that brought down Omar al-Bashir.
Only the post of Minister of Education has yet to be filled and requires further consultation.
This is an important step in the implementation of the peace agreement signed with the armed groups last October… and the next step of which is the establishment of a transitional parliament by the 25th. February.
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