ADDIS ABABA (Halbeeg News) – The African Union has warned Sudan’s military that the Khartoum has 15 days to install a civilian government or risk getting kicked out of the bloc.
“A military-led transition would be completely contrary to the aspirations of the people of Sudan,” the AU’s Peace and Security Council said it in a statement on Monday.
“Sudan must aim to hold “free, fair and transparent elections” as soon as possible,” it added.
“The Transitional Military Council has met many demands of the protesters, but some of the demands of the protesters need time to answer,” said General Jalal Eldin Alshaik, a member of the council said on Monday, after the meeting Ethiopian PM, Abiy Ahmed in Addis Ababa in what was first foreign visit.
The military council is yet to formally respond to protesters demands, which include the transfer of power to a civilian-headed transitional authority for a period of four years, at the end of which elections will be held.
It has, however, made a number of moves in an apparent bid to satisfy the protesters, including the lifting of the night-time curfew
A sit-in demanding the army hand over power still continues at army headquarters in Khartoum.
The leader of Sudan’s transitional military council General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Abdulrahman has also vowed to restructure state institutions and “uproot the [Bashir] regime and its symbols” – but has also said that the transition to civilian rule could take up to two years.
A military takeover ended al-Bashir’s 30-year authoritarian rule last week.
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