Updates in Sudan This Week – Darfur Women Action Group

This Week’s Highlights and Updates in Sudan:

Two weeks after staging a coup, Lt. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan announced a so-called new 14-member Sovereign Council. Al-Burhan would lead again as Chairman of the Council and militia leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo would remain deputy. The Council includes four civilians, but none from the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) that had been sharing power with the military since 2019. This move by the military is likely to deepen civilian opposition who has firmly resisted the takeover through a campaign of civil disobedience, the next of which is planned for Saturday.

Last Sunday, military forces stormed a protest at Sudan’s Ministry of Education in Khartoum where teachers were demanding the replacement of employees who had links to the Bashir regime. As of right now, 36 teachers who participated in the protest are still in detention. Furthermore, in Southern Darfur, 14 leading members of the committee and of departments of the Ministry of Education were arrested after the protest and are still in detention. Undoubtedly, the continued detention of detainees severely violates human rights and human dignity, and DWAG decries such actions and demands for the release of the teachers immediately.

Lacking a political base of his own, Lt. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has been drawing on ex-officials associated with the former Omar al-Bashir regime for key posts in the state bureaucracy, vital infrastructure, banks, and trade. This move by Al- Burhan suggests that he is finding ways to consolidate his power after the takeover and return to the Bashir era. DWAG stands in solidarity with the people of Sudan, echoes their voice, and condemns the renewed influence of the Bashir regime, as it will mark a return to oppressive and genocidal tactics. Former members of the Bashir regime must be held accountable rather than being brought to be a part of the interim arrangements.

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