This archive report was first published on 5 July 2019.
Published on July 5, 2019, Sudan's ruling generals and protest leaders have reached a breakthrough agreement on a new governing body, aimed at ending the country's months-long political crisis.
The agreement, reached after two days of talks, establishes a sovereign council with a rotating military and civilian presidency for a period of three years or less.
African Union mediator Mohamed El Hacen Lebatt announced the agreement, saying that the two sides had agreed to establish a sovereign council with a rotating military and civilian presidency for a period of three years or less.
Deputy chief of the ruling military council General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo said that the agreement is inclusive and does not exclude anyone, reassuring all political forces and armed movements.
The agreement comes after a brutal raid on a longstanding protest camp outside army headquarters in the capital Khartoum on June 3, which killed dozens of demonstrators and wounded hundreds.
Protest leader Ahmed al-Rabie said that the new ruling body will comprise six civilians, including five from the protest movement, and five members of the military.
The agreement also includes a detailed, transparent, national, and independent investigation into all the regrettable violent incidents that the country faced in recent weeks, including the June 3 raid.
At least 136 people have been killed across the country since the raid, including more than 100 on June 3, according to doctors close to the umbrella protest movement, the Alliance for Freedom and Change.
