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Sudan to announce new national government
[MIDDLEEASTMONITOR] Sudan is set to announce a new national government early next month including a minister to take over the newly recreated post of prime minister, a bigwig disclosed yesterday.The Sudanese Presidential Assistant Ibrahim Mahmoud said in a presser in Khartoum that President Omar al-Bashir  Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to ArabizeDarfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. will issue a decree slated for 10 January to declare the new government once the arrangements are finalised. The ruling National Congress Party (NCP) and the political parties participating in national dialogue efforts have engaged in broad-based consultations to name the new prime minister and the entire cabinet, Mahmoud said. He called on the opposition to join the new government. "The doors are still open for the boycotters to join the national consensus government," he said. Opposition members boycotted the elections in Sudan on the grounds that they do not represent true democratisation. On Wednesday, Sudan’s parliament endorsed a raft of constitutional amendments, one of which revives the country’s prime ministerial post for the first time since al-Bashir came to power after a 1989 coup. The constitutional changes give the president more power, including authority to appoint cabinet ministers. Posted by: Fred 2016-12-31 |
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