The Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) and the National Umma Party (NUP) agreed to form a new political coalition to support a smooth democratic transition in Sudan, said the deputy leader of the SPLM-N Agar on Sunday.
"The SRF and the NUP agreed to start work on forming a transitional bloc. Also, they established a joint working committee," Yasir Arman, told the Sudan Tribune.
The Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) and the National Umma Party (NUP) agreed to form a new political coalition to support a smooth democratic transition in Sudan, said the deputy leader of the SPLM-N Agar on Sunday.
"The SRF and the NUP agreed to start work on forming a transitional bloc. Also, they established a joint working committee," Yasir Arman, told the Sudan Tribune.
Political forces affiliated with the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) ruling coalition begin to nominate their representatives in the Transitional Legislative Council (TLC) which would be established in coming weeks.
The transitional parliament is to be formed of 300 lawmakers. 165 chosen by the FFC, 75 nominated by the Sudanese Revolutionary Front, while the remaining 60 seats will go to the political forces that did not sign the FFC Declaration but support the revolution.
Said al-Mahdi was Sudan’s last democratically elected prime minister before he was toppled in a 1989 coup.
Former Sudanese Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi has died from a coronavirus infection. He was 84. In a brief statement, al-Mahdi’s family said he died on Thursday, three weeks after being admitted to hospital in the United Arab Emirates.
Al-Mahdi was Sudan’s last democratically elected prime minister and was overthrown in 1989 in the military coup that brought former President Omar al-Bashir to power.
All resolutions agreed upon at the recently concluded national dialogue conference will be harmonized with the permanent constitution making process provided for in the revitalized peace deal, South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir said.
The South Sudanese leader made the remarks while closing the national dialogue conference held in Juba from November 3-17 on Tuesday.
The National Umma Party (NUP) of Sadiq al-Mahdi Sunday demanded to be allocated 65 parliamentary seats in the Transitional Legislative Council (TLC).
On April 23, the NUP decided to freeze its activities in the Forces for Freedom and Change after disagreements over the structural reforms it proposes to implement in the broad coalition.
The Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) announced its withdrawal from the ruling Forces for Freedom and Change, accusing its leadership of plotting against the revolution. The withdrawal was decided in a two-day meeting on Friday and Saturday held by the SCP Central Committee to discuss the party’s strategy during the transitional period which should pave the way for general elections.
Sudan has criminalised carrying out female genital mutilation (FGM), making it punishable by three years in jail.
udan's army has quelled a rebellion from former elite troops loyal to the ousted leader Omar al-Bashir.
Shooting broke out on Tuesday in the capital Khartoum and the city's airport was briefly closed amid the clashes.
The violence was sparked by a row over severance pay, the government said. The rebellious troops belong to an intelligence agency that is being disbanded.
Two soldiers were killed and four were injured in the unrest.
KHARTOUM, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- A joint meeting of Sudan's Sovereign Council and the Council of Ministers on Thursday approved a law to dissolve former ruling National Congress Party (NCP).
"We have passed this law in a joint meeting with our partners in the Sovereign Council to take its full legitimacy," Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok wrote on his Facebook page.
Fatal attacks on protesters in Sudan in June were planned and could amount to crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released on Monday.
HRW said Sudan’s transitional authorities should commit to genuine accountability for unlawful violence against protesters since December, in which hundreds were killed.
On June 3, Sudanese security forces’ launched an attack on protesters’ at a sit-in camp in Khartoum. The same occurred again on June 30, in Omdurman.
October 22, 2019 (WASHINGTON) - The Friends of Sudan agreed Monday to establish a multi-donor trust fund to support Sudanese government economic reforms while Washington announced engaging discussions with Khartoum to remove it from the terror list.
The U.S. led international group discussed on Monday how the international community can support Sudan’s civilian-led transitional government’s economic reform efforts.
October 21, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - Sudanese took to the streets in the capital Khartoum and several Sudanese cities to express their impatience and called to expedite reforms and dismantle the former regime.
The rallies were organized by the Sudanese Professionals Association, the spearhead of the protests that overthrown al-Bashir regime last April, to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the first popular uprising against a military regime in 1964.
La junta militar de Sudán ha asegurado este miércoles haber desarticulado un intento de golpe de Estado y haber arrestado a varios oficiales, según ha informado la agencia estatal sudanesa de noticias, SUNA.
El Consejo Militar de Transición ha resaltado que «el objetivo del intento de golpe era abortar la gloriosa revolución del pueblo y el retorno del antiguo sistema del Partido del Congreso Nacional»
Tens of thousands of protesters rallied across Sudan on Sunday against the ruling generals as demonstrators marched on the presidential palace in Khartoum, in the biggest mass demonstration since a deadly crackdown on demonstrators.
Khartoum: Sudan's protest movement called Tuesday for fresh rallies and rejected the military rulers' election plan after more than 35 people were killed in what demonstrators called a "bloody massacre" by security forces.
Protest leaders called on their supporters to take part in "total civil disobedience" to topple the ruling military council following the deadly dispersal Monday of a weeks-long sit-in outside the army headquarters in Khartoum.
