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More than 50 Sudanese pro-democracy groups have agreed on a new draft constitution for the country. The draft was billed as the latest push by the pro-democrats in recent times to push ahead with their agenda. The demonstration they put up after framing the draft constitution was the largest one since the 2019 popular uprising
More than 50 Sudanese pro-democracy groups have agreed on a new draft constitution for the country. The draft was billed as the latest push by the pro-democrats in recent times to push ahead with their agenda. The demonstration they put up after framing the draft constitution was the largest one since the 2019 popular uprising.
The document that pro-democrats have evolved mentions steps to be taken for putting the country back on the path to democracy and to shun military rule. The country is in political turmoil since the military captured powers in a coup almost a year ago after three decades of repressive Islamist rule under former President Omar Al Bashir.
Abdel Fattah Burhan, the current military ruler of the country removed his civilian partners in government and detained hundreds of officials and activists, after assuming the powers. The draft constitution is a hybrid of two separate proposals drafted earlier this year by different groups, which is yet to be published. The draft constitution is reported to have included measures for the removal of the current military leaders, the cancellation of the Juba Peace Agreement, and the implementation of a new transitional constitution and legislative council.
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As against this, the Juba Peace Agreement, signed between the former military-civilian power-sharing government and various rebel groups in 2020, promised to integrate the country’s various armed factions into one military united force. The U.N. political mission in Sudan, the African Union, and the eight-nation east African regional Intergovernmental Authority on Development group has been trying to resolve the problem through cross-party dialogues. Such discussions have so far eluded a resolution of the vexatious problem.
