{"id":169972,"date":"2022-10-10T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/military-involvement-in-sudan-s-transition-proposed-by-political-forces\/"},"modified":"2023-01-26T13:42:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T12:42:37","slug":"military-involvement-in-sudan-s-transition-proposed-by-political-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/military-involvement-in-sudan-s-transition-proposed-by-political-forces","title":{"rendered":"Military involvement in Sudan’s transition proposed by political forces"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The\u00a0National Accord Forces (NAF), and the\u00a0Sudan People\u2019s Call initiative signed a political declaration on Saturday,\u00a0which is an amendment of the 2019 Constitutional Declaration, for a transitional period of 24 months.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The document stipulated that three bodies which will act together during the transitional period: A\u00a0sovereign authority, a transitional cabinet, and a legislative council. The declaration also proposed a Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, including involving coup leaders in the formation of a new cabinet. It stipulates that transitional authority structures will agree, by consensus, the duties of a sovereign president.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The political declaration rejected a proposal<\/a> by the\u00a0Sudan Bar Association\u00a0for a new transitional constitution. It said that such a process would create complications that cannot be solved under the current state of fragmentation in the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The role of the Juba Peace Agreement in completing the peace process in Sudan was emphasised in the document.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The charter was signed by Minni Minawi, head of the NAF Liaison Committee, Jaafar El Mirghani, Deputy Chairman of the mainstream Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), and Mohamed Wadaa, member of the Sudanese Ba\u2019ath Party.<\/p>\n

Minni Minnawi said\u00a0\u201cfor the past sixty years, the military has been part of the government,\u201d after renewing his call to hold a Sudanese to Sudanese dialogue to discuss the root causes of the Sudanese crisis since independence.<\/p>\n

El Mirghani stressed the need to end the constitutional vacuum in Sudan and urged the political forces to take concrete steps towards a solution, involving all the forces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The NAF, formerly the National Accord breakaway faction of the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC-NA), announced their political vision<\/a> on August 23. In the document, it was proposed that the role of the military in the government should be limited to security and defense councils, chaired by a civilian head of state or the prime minister. The NAF\u00a0is dominated by rebel groups that signed the Juba Peace Agreement and support the coup d\u2019\u00e9tat of October 25 last year. The DUP is an ally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After announcing their political vision, the NAF met the tripartite committee of the Sudanese military, headed by Gen Mohamed \u2018Hemeti\u2019 Dagalo, on August 25 to discuss the military junta holding consultations with civilian political actors. Hemeti said last month that that he is committed to his previous pledge to\u00a0remove the military institution<\/a> from the political scene, contrary to claims<\/a> made by Jibril Ibrahim, Minister of Finance and head of the Justice and Equality Movement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Sudan People\u2019s Call initiative<\/a>, backed by coup-leader and Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) Commander Abdelfattah El Burhan, was launched in July by renowned Sufi leader El Tayeb El Jed with the aim of ending the country\u2019s political crisis.<\/p>\n

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The constitutional declaration comes in opposition to the mainstream Forces for Freedom and Change-Central Council\u00a0(FFC-CC) vision for political transition<\/a> in\u00a0Sudan, along with visions from various other groups<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On October 5, Sudan\u2019s Resistance Committees activated a separate document, the Revolutionary Charter<\/a> for the Establishment of the People\u2019s Authority.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Technical Committee of the Charter explained in a press statement that the goals and issues raised by the resistance committees will be the basic building blocks for the formation of a unified body that will include “all the revolutionary forces”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n