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Sudan’s ousted Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has been brought back to the chair.
The country’s top general, Abdel Fattah Burhan, said in a statement that Hamdok will lead an independent technocratic Cabinet until elections. According to the deal, the military will also release government officials and politicians arrested since the October 25 coup.
Agreement sees Hamdok return to lead a transitional government, all political prisoners freed.
It remains unclear how much power the government now to be made, will hold. Or it would still remain under military oversight. The civilian coalition that nominated Hamdok as PM two years ago has refused to acknowledge any new deal.
“The future of the country will be determined by the young people on the ground,” Siddiq Abu-Fawwaz, from the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition, told.
Since 25 October, when the military declared a state of emergency and dissolved the civilian leadership, at least 40 people have died in mass protests against the coup. Hamdok was quoted by a news agency as saying he had agreed to the deal to stop the violence. “Sudanese blood is precious, let us stop the bloodshed and direct the youth’s energy into building and development,” he said.
The military has come under intense international and domestic pressure to restore the transition to democracy. The World Bank froze its aid to Sudan, and the African Union (AU) suspended the country’s membership of the bloc – a key factor behind the reinstating of the PM on chair.
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Sudan locals have been taking to the streets in masses since the military takeover, which upended the country’s fragile transition to democracy. A military and government officials who spoke of the deal said it also foresaw the release of government officials and politicians arrested since the coup. The largest of the political parties said to be included in the deal, the Umma Party, had issued a statement implying that it did not sign off on the deal.
