Sudan : Military Gov’t, Civil Society Hold Crucial Talks

Sudanese military government and representatives of the civil society have held another round of decisive talks in the process leading to the return of power to a civilian government. Last Saturday, March 11, 2023, the doors of the last but one conference were opened within the framework of the December 5, 2022 agreement between the military and opposition. At the ongoing working session in the country’s capital Khartoum, focus is on the transitional justice. On the sidelines of the conference, General Mohammed Hamdan Dogolo alias “Hemedti”, leader of the paramilitary forces known as the Rapid Support Forces and number 2 of the junta, have publicly called on the regular army, to stop collaborating with the Islamists and the forces of the former regime of Omar al-Bashir.
The conference on the transitional justice is expected to put in place legal guidelines that would aid the transitional civilian government carry out its activities hitch-free. This phase of activities comes on the heels of the accord laying down the foundations for the establishment of a transitional civil authority. The third and last phase of the agreement considered the most important would be on military reforms. Here, most observers do expressed a lot of reservation on whether the military would be willing to give...