AU issues Sudan military third deadline of 60 days to hand over power

2) the Military and the Sudanese stakeholders should finalize all transitional arrangements, including modalities, duration and priorities of the transition, as well as legislative and judicial structures, that will lead to the restoration of constitutional order; The second deadline followed a special AU summit called in Cairo and chaired by the current AU president Abdel Fatteh Al-Sisi of Egypt. It gave the military three months to regularize the power situation. The first deadline of 15 days was issued days after Bashir was ousted by the military after months of anti-government protests that started in December 2018.

The military and protest leaders have been in talks but have serially failed to reach an agreement on the composition of a “unity” government.

The Sudanese Professionals Association, SPS, have asked citizens to remain in the streets until power is handed over to civilians. The second in command of the TMC this week warned that they will not accept chaos. At the time the military had for the umpteenth time failed to remove barricades that have been mounted in key areas of the capital hampering the free movement especially of vehicles.