SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Sudan army: End appointment of military governors

 14/11/19: Radio Dabanga - Sudan army: End appointment of military governors

 Radio Dabanga reports that the High Command of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) informed rebel leaders during the negotiations that it wished to end the appointment of generals as acting state governors.

 The SAF command says that “the generals were appointed by the deposed regime of Omar Al Bashir, which raises a variety of difficulties. In a number of cases, it would be better if interim civil governors would manage the states until a peace agreement is signed.”

 During the Juba Peace negotiations, the government and rebels agreed  on appointing new state governors after a peace accord has been reached.

 However, the chairman of the Sudan Revolutionary Front’s Legislative Council, El Tom Hajo, said that number of states cannot be governed by governors from among the Forces of Freedom and Change , such as war-torn Darfur, Blue Nile state and South Kordofan, and marginalised eastern Sudan.