After four weeks under house arrest, Abdalla Hamdok, Sudan’s ousted prime minister, was reinstated yesterday. At a televised ceremony in the presidential palace, he signed a deal with the military intended to end a bloody standoff that has led to dozens of protester deaths and threatened to derail Sudan’s fragile transition to democracy.
The 14-point agreement met with a wave of anger on the streets. Vocal critics slammed it as an unacceptable concession to a military that has controlled Sudan for 52 years of its 60-year history and that has sought to weaken the democracy transition from the start in 2019. Police officers fired tear gas and live bullets at jeering protesters.
Hamdok will be allowed to form his own government, said a Western official familiar with the negotiations, though important points of contention between the two sides have not been worked out, including crucial arrangements for sharing power.
Analysis: “Hamdok preferred to become the secretary of a dictator over a symbol of an emancipatory movement,” said Magdi el-Gizouli of the Rift Valley Institute, a research body in East Africa. “Whoever marketed this as realpolitik underestimated the depth of the desire for change, and a new future, among the new generation in Sudan.”
source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/21/briefing/sudan-prime-minister-barcelona.html
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