Sudan: Progress on the mediation between al-Burhan and Hamdok
“Mediation efforts to resolve the crisis in Sudan appear to be progressing, and may soon lead to an imminent agreement”.
Sources familiar with the ongoing talks reported progress in the mediation file between the former Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok and the military component.
The sources also expected a compromise formula to overcome the current crisis soon, al-Sudani newspaper reported Wednesday.
“A Result Soon”
Other sources familiar with the mediation file also confirmed to Bloomberg that the military and politicians are close to reaching an agreement on power-sharing, with international efforts to resolve the crisis that erupted last week, following the announcement by the army chief Abdel Fattah Al Burhan to dissolve the government and the Council of Sovereignty, and to impose a state of emergency in the country.
Imad Adoui, former chief of staff of the Sudanese army, said from Cairo, after being briefed on the talks by senior army commanders: “I think they will come to a conclusion very soon”.
“There are many facilitators, including local actors, as well as South Sudan, African countries and the UN”.
What are the proposals?
“As for the key to a solution, informed sources said that one proposal under discussion involves giving Hamdok more power, but with a new government more acceptable to the military”.
“It also stressed that the army, which has dominated much of the Sudanese landscape and the country’s history since independence in 1956, would be responsible for the government’s powerful security and defense councils under the agreement”.
The question of the formation of a new sovereign Council is still under discussion.
Some obstacles
Since October 25th, diplomats, businessmen, academics, and politicians have been trying to mediate in order to get the country out of its crisis, which has been ongoing since last Monday at dawn, but with no results announced so far.
“We have met all the military and civilian actors and they have all agreed in principle to the discussions”, one of the negotiators told AFP on condition of anonymity.
“There are still obstacles”, he said, while many in the civilian camp set indispensable conditions for dialog. The Forces for Freedom and Change, the largest bloc in the civilian camp that emerged from the 2019 uprising against deposed President Omar el-Bechir, confirmed yesterday, Tuesday, “any discussion as long as the detainees are not released and the roadmap agreed upon for power-sharing between the military and the civilians is not returned”, according to the same negotiator.
“Sudan has been living under constant civil unrest since January 25 in protest at the army’s dissolution of the civilian government, the imposition of a state of emergency and the suspension of some articles of the constitutional document”.
