The Birth of Civility in Liberated Khartoum
▪️Today is not an ordinary day in the history of the great transformations unfolding in our country. Today, the heart of the nation—Khartoum—beats once again as it hosts the first meeting of the Council of Ministers of the “Government of Hope,” headed by Dr. Kamal Idris after its completion. The scene was not merely a cabinet session behind closed doors, but a clear declaration that Khartoum, which the enemies tried to silence, has returned to speak for the entire nation. Its pulse proclaims to the world: Sudan remains, and Sudan is stronger.
▪️The convening of the cabinet in the midst of liberated Khartoum symbolizes the triumph of both popular and military will. It demonstrates that the struggle was not only a battle of rifles and tanks, but also a battle of awareness and determination—a fight for life or death. And when civilian ministers—among the finest independent national competencies—sit together to draft reconstruction plans, they open a window of hope in the midst of devastation, planting the seeds of tomorrow in soil watered by the blood of martyrs and the sacrifices of both the army and the people.
▪️The enemies—mercenary militias and their greedy foreign sponsors—wanted Sudan to be a lifeless body managed from abroad. Yet our national army, under its wise leadership, insisted on reshaping the scene. It carried the rifle to defend land and honor, while at the same time paving the way for a genuine civilian government to lead development and build institutions. This is not an impossible equation, but rather the essence of the new Sudanese state: an army that protects, and civilians who build.
▪️Hope does not end with the cabinet. In the near future, a qualitative step will follow with the addition of civilian members to the Transitional Sovereign Council—further completing the picture and entrenching the principle that Sudan is steadily advancing toward civilian governance. Not as a slogan for consumption, but as a reality being forged on the ground in the very midst of war.
▪️This is the greatness of the moment: that the nation is in a war of survival, and yet it sows the seeds of a modern civil state. That while the armed forces resist the ambitions of outsiders, ministers work to reopen schools, hospitals, electricity, and water. That the noblest goal of community reconciliation and strengthening the social fabric is realized—so that the path becomes one: toward dignity, stability, and renaissance.
▪️The stage we live in today will inevitably lead—by the logic of history—to genuine democratic construction based on the peaceful transfer of power among national political forces. The war has left no room for illusions, nor for false affiliations trapped in partisan or personal egos, or tied to elites who served foreign agendas. The earthquake of war has torn down all fragile structures, pushing parties and national forces to deep and necessary self-revision, so they may rise again on the foundation of the national cause alone—nothing else.
▪️Today Sudan tells the world: We are neither weak nor broken. We are shaping our future with the blood of our martyrs, the resolve of our army, and the awareness of our civilians. Sudan will emerge from this war stronger, more genuinely civilian, and more capable of being a homeland for all its people—and a messenger of peace and cooperation to its neighbors and to the world.
