SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Reuters - Sudanese factions agree plan to pave way for transitional government
Reuters’ report on Sudan’s constitutional declaration features comments from Magdi el-Gizouli, a Sudanese academic and a fellow of the Rift Valley Institute, who analysed how the agreement might play out.
El-Gizouli attributed the agreement to pressure from mediators and Sudanese public opinion but questioned how the military and FFC will turn the agreement into practice, although “it is too early to speculate.”
While the document says the Rapid Support Forces fall under general command of the armed forces, El-Gizouli doubted this would change anything since the RSF had always been formally under army control, adding that “[the RSF] is a private militia, it is not under the authority of anybody other than its commander…this was the condition under Bashir and will probably be the case now.”