Khartoum: Sudan’s transition towards civilian rule got off to a bumpy start as generals and protest leaders fell two days behind schedule on Tuesday in unveiling a joint sovereign council. The body will replace the transitional military council that took over from longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir when he was forced from power by relentless protests in April.
The former general appeared in court sitting in a cage to face graft charges on Monday, a sight that the two thirds of Sudan’s 40 million inhabitants who were born under his rule could hardly have imagined.
Abdalla Hamdok, a former UN economist based in Addis Ababa, has accepted the protest camp’s nomination but awaits the announcement of the sovereign council and has yet to arrive in the country. (AFP)
The former general appeared in court sitting in a cage to face graft charges on Monday, a sight that the two thirds of Sudan’s 40 million inhabitants who were born under his rule could hardly have imagined.
Abdalla Hamdok, a former UN economist based in Addis Ababa, has accepted the protest camp’s nomination but awaits the announcement of the sovereign council and has yet to arrive in the country. (AFP)