SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources - Sudan military council, opposition reach power-sharing agreement

5/7/19: Multiple sources – Sudan military council, opposition reach power-sharing agreement

• Reuters, by Khalid Abdelaziz

• BBC

• AFP

• Times, by Jane Flanagan

• Bloomberg, by Mohammed Alamin

• Wall Street Journal, by Nicholas Bariyo and Justin Scheck

• AP

Sudan’s military council and the Declaration of Freedom and Change have provisionally agreed to share power for three years, agreeing to establish a sovereign council that will be Sudan’s highest authority.

 According to a statement from the Sudanese Professionals Association, the council will be led for the first 21 months by the military, and for the final 18 months by civilians and it will comprise five military members and five civilian appointees, with an additional civilian member agreed by the two sides. The deal will be finalised by Monday (June 8).

 The deal includes the formation of a technocratic government beneath the council, and an independent investigation into recent violence, but postpones the establishment of a legislative council - on which the DFC was due to take two-thirds of the seats before the June 3 massacre.