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June 4, 2019
Sudan’s ruling Military Council has announced thatgeneral elections will be held within nine months, adding that it had decidedto cancel all that had been previously agreed with protesters about thecountry’s transition.
General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s announcement cameafter Sudan’s military forcefully broke up a weeks-long sit-in outsideKhartoum’s army headquarters calling on the country’s ruling generals to handover to civilian rule, leaving more than thirty dead.
Burhan said in a statement broadcast on statetelevision that the Military Council decides on the following: cancelling whatwas agreed on and stopping negotiating with the Alliance for Freedom andChange, and to call for general elections within a period not exceeding ninemonths.
He added the election would take place underregional and international supervision.
The Transitional Military Council ousted PresidentOmar al-Bashir in April after months of protests against his authoritarianrule.