SUDAN NEWS ALERT: AP - Sudan needs new date for civilian leadership handover: Sovereign council member

24/9/2021: AP - Sudan needs new date for civilian leadership handover: Sovereign council member

AP report that Mohammad Al-Faki, the civilian spokesman for Sudan’s ruling Sovereign Council, says that the date for the handover of the leadership of council from the military to civilians remains unclear, and requires discussion and a new legal decree from the Justice Ministry.

Al-Faki described the relationship between civilian and military council members as “unwell”, with joint meetings on various topics becoming unproductive in recent weeks.

Sudan’s 2019 constitutional declaration signed in 2019 set the power transfer to civilians for May 2021, but the Juba Peace agreement of October 2020 reset the clock on the transition without specifying a new date for handover. A simple reset of the clock would set a handover of July 2022. “The transition to civilians is not secondary and shouldn’t be left to fate,” al-Faki said, adding that he favoured a proposal to carry out the handover in November.