Sudan’s ruling Military Council has announced that general elections will be held within nine months, adding that it had decided to cancel all that had been previously agreed with protesters about the country’s transition.
General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s announcement came after Sudan’s military forcefully broke up a weeks-long sit-in outside Khartoum’s army headquarters calling on the country’s ruling generals to hand over to civilian rule, leaving more than thirty dead.
Burhan said in a statement broadcast on state television that the Military Council decides on the following: cancelling what was agreed on and stopping negotiating with the Alliance for Freedom and Change, and to call for general elections within a period not exceeding nine months.
He added the election would take place under regional and international supervision.
The Transitional Military Council ousted President Omar al-Bashir in April after months of protests against his authoritarian rule.
