CAIRO (Reuters) – Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok mentioned on Sunday the political deal he signed with the army grants him full freedom in forming a authorities of technocrats, Al Jazeera TV reported.
“We agreed to carry elections earlier than July 2023,” Al Jazeera quoted him as saying.
Earlier on Sunday, Sudan’s army reinstated Hamdok and promised to launch all political detainees after weeks of lethal unrest triggered by a coup, though giant crowds took to the streets to reject any deal involving the military.
Underneath an settlement signed with army chief Basic Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Hamdok, first appointed after the overthrow of autocrat Omar al-Bashir in a 2019 rebellion, will lead a civilian authorities of technocrats for a transitional interval.
The deal faces opposition from pro-democracy teams which have demanded full civilian rule ever since Bashir was ousted and have been angered by the deaths of dozens protesters within the weeks following the Oct. 25 coup.
(Reporting by Moaz Abd-Alaziz; Writing by Ahmad Elhamy; Enhancing by William Maclean)
