Protesters Sign Power-Sharing Deal With Military - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (F.BA)
August 6, 2019
Sudan’sruling Generals and protest leaders signed a hard-won constitutionaldeclaration, paving the way for a transition to civilian rule after more thanseven months of demonstrations and violence.
Underthe agreement, signed at a ceremony in the capital, Khartoum, a jointcivilian-military ruling body will oversee the formation of a civiliangovernment and parliament to govern for a three-year transition period.
Thedeclaration was the result of fraught negotiations between the leaders of massprotests, which erupted last December against the three-decade rule ofpresident Omar al-Bashir, and the generals who ousted him in April.
Protestmovement leader, Ahmed Rabie and the Deputy Head of the ruling militarycouncil, General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo signed the declaration at a ceremonyattended by African Union. AU and Ethiopian mediators.