Transitional Sovereignty Council
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Modulating the Constitutional Document or Manipulating a Constitutional Declaration?
Professor Mekki Medani El ShiblyExecutive Director – Mamoun Behairy CenterMobile:+249 90 090 8898 On February 8, 2022, the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) presented a roadmap to the United Nations Mission in Sudan “UNITAMS” to address the current political impasse. The map entails the establishment of a new constitutional set-up governed by a Constitutional Declaration that conceives a transitional civilian authority with popular legitimacy to replace the 2019 constitutional document amended in 2020. The…
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Urgent Measures Needed!
Dr. Elshafie Khidir Saeid Many initiatives were launched in the Sudanese political domain to address the current crisis in the country. All these initiatives share a greatest common denominator that has two components, but unfortunately, the second one is still without concrete substance. The first component is well written and well-articulated in almost all the initiatives. It strongly refuses the 25th October coup, and it calls for the cancelation of all the measures and decisions…
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Imminent Change Around the Corner
Omer B. Abu Haraz The security arrangements chapter is the cornerstone of any peace agreement. Without the successful and timely implementation of the security arrangements, the whole peace efforts fall apart. In the recent history of Sudan, three peace agreements were ratified and signed The first two went well, the third is larking on the security arrangements implementations. The first was the Addis Ababa agreement which was signed by President Numeiri and Major General Joseph…
- Breaking News
Dagalo in Juba with a High-Level Delegation
Staff Writer Lieutenant-General Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, Vice-President of the Sovereignty Council, Chairman of the Supreme Committee to Follow up on the Implementation of the Revitalized Peace Agreement for South Sudan, arrived this morning in Juba, the capital of the Republic of South Sudan, on an official visit accompanied by Lieutenant-General Yassin Ibrahim Yassin, the designated Minister of Defense, and Major General Muhammad Ali Ahmed Saber, head of the Military Intelligence, along with representatives from the…
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Desperate Diseases Need Desperate Remedies
Muawad Mustafa Rashid The post-independence political regimes have completely collapsed at all levels. The traditional pro-independence political parties witnessed widespread fragmentation and their programs had ended with the rising of the national flag in 1956. After that, there was complete disorder in the political arena which led to a continuous vicious circle of the democratic, military, democratic uprising, military regimes, and so on for more than six decades. The restructuring of the Sudanese State that…
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The First Steps
Mohammed Saad Kamel At last, Gen. Al-Burhan said what we all were waiting for in the importance of recovering our sovereignty to its appropriate position. This came through his answering the critical questions of the Constructive Dialogue program aired by the Sudanese National TV Channel. He defused the continuous threats of the US Administration regarding imposing sanctions on the military component as he said that those threats are not effective, adding that those who provide…
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Steps Towards Achieving Justice and Human Rights in Sudan
Haffiya Abdalla On 25 September 2019, a landmark Host Country Agreement was signed by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Government of Sudan, paving the way for the establishment of a fully mandated UN Human Rights office in Sudan including four field offices in Darfur, Blue Nile, South Kordofan, and East Sudan. OHCHR received the full support of the Government of Sudan for the swift deployment of the start-up team to Khartoum…
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Sovereignty Council VP Directs the Immediate Tallying and Registration of All Refugees in Sudan
Staff Writer Khartoum – February 13, 2022 AD — Lieutenant-General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, Vice President of the Sovereign Council, directed the immediate start of counting and registering all refugees in the country, reviewing the camps, and activating legal and police procedures on the country’s borders. The Vice-President of the Sovereignty Council, during a meeting with the Minister of Interior, the Director-General of the Police Forces, Lieutenant-General Anan Hamed Muhammad Omar, in the presence of the Commissioner…
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Al-Burhan Confirms the Army will Leave the Politics if a National Consensus is Reached
Staff Writer Khartoum, February 12, 2022 (SUNA) — Lieutenant-General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, Chairman of the Sovereignty Council, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, said that the army will exit from all political frameworks if a national consensus is reached through the elections. In a lengthy interview with Sudan TV this evening, Al-Burhan affirmed, “He does not want to rule and does not want the army to rule, noting that since independence Sudan has been revolving in…
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Al-Burhan: ‘Volker Is a Mediator and Has No Right to Take Initiatives’
Staff Writer Lieutenant-General Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan made it clear that the envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Volker Peretz, is a mediator who calls on everyone for dialogue and does not have the right to present an initiative. Al-Burhan said in his interview with Sudanese television this evening, “I have no political opponents, and I have one cause, which is the homeland.” On the closure of Al Jazeera Mubasher, he explained that media work…