Sudan’s military junta has 60-day ultimatum to handover power to civilians – AU
African Union leaders meeting in Cairo (File/Supplied/SSNN)
April 24th 2019 (SSNN) – The African Union – meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo – on Tuesday issued a 60-day ultimatum to Sudan’s ruling military junta, Transitional Military Council (TMC), to handover power to the people to form their own government.
The Cairo meeting was called for by the Egyptian President, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi who took the African Union leadership early this year and was attended by leaders of Chad, Djibouti, Somalia, South Africa, Ethiopia’s deputy prime minister, head of African Union Commission, foreign ministers and presidential envoys of Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan and Uganda.
The meeting came two weeks after the military in Sudan failed to comply with an early dateline by the AU when the AU commission Chairperson, Mousa Faki said the military have two weeks to handover power to the people who have – since the removal of al-Bashir – remained in the streets protesting.
In a communique issued in Cairo following the meeting, the AU acknowledged the need to give Sudan more time to prepare for a peaceful transition.
“The participating countries recognized the need to give more time to the Sudanese authorities and the Sudanese parties to implement these measures, taking into consideration that they will not be lengthy, and recommended that the African Peace and Security Council extend the schedule given to the Sudanese authority for three months,” partly read the communique.
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