Africa: Sudan transition: Will protesters and military reach agreement? By Al Jazeera
On Friday evening, General Awad Ibn Auf named Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan as his successor at the helm of the country’s ruling military council – Sudan’s third leader in as many days following Bashir’s overthrow on Thursday.
“Al-Burhan said all the right things,” said Dallia Abdelmoneim, a protester in Khartoum. “After 30 years, it’s impossible to just hand over to a civilian government. This coalition between the two seems the safest and best option for us all. They’ll both keep each other in check.”Face-saving option Michael Woldemariam, assistant professor of international relations at Boston University, referring to“But sustaining their vigour and unity in the face of government concessions, and broader appeals to stabilise the country, won’t be easy,” he said.
“With this in place, they will need to establish plans for the reforms of key institutions – justice, economic, media, legislative, electoral – that will create a level playing field for a genuinely democratic system.”After leading a coup in 1989, al-Bashir spent years working to shield himself from losing power in the same way that he had seized it.
Sudan, which is part of the Saudi-UAE coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen, has in recent years relied heavily on assistance from Gulf countries to shore up its ailing finances, which suffered a major blow in 2011, when South Sudan gained independence and took with it more than 75 percent of its oil production.
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