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Tuesday 6 december 2022

Sudan’s generals, pro-democracy group ink deal to end crisis

By ASHRAF IDRIS and defense council” under the
JACK JEFFERY appointed prime minister.
Associated Press But it does not address how
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — to reform the armed forces,
Sudan’s coup leaders and saying only they should be
the main pro-democracy unified and controls should
group signed a deal Mon- be imposed on military-
day to establish a civilian- owned companies.
led transitional government It makes specific mention
following the military take- of Sudan’s wealthy para-
over last year. military force, the Rapid
But key players refused to Support Forces, headed
participate, and no dead- by Dagalo. The force
line was set for the transi- amassed wealth through its
tion to begin. gradual acquisition of Su-
The framework signed by danese financial institutions
Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and gold reserves in recent
Gen. Mohammed Hamdan years.
Dagalo and the leaders It also does not address cre-
of the Forces for the Dec- ating a transitional judiciary
laration of Freedom and system or say when the
Change appears to offer transitional government will
only the broadest outlines be put in place. Only then
for how the country will re- Sudan’s Army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, center, and others hold a document following the will a two-year transition of-
sume its progression to de- signature of an initial deal aimed at ending a deep crisis caused by last year’s military coup, in ficially begin the end goal
mocracy. Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. of which is elections.
That process was upend- Associated Press Analysts have cast doubt
ed in October 2021, when peril. Security forces have solved and doesn’t have draft of the deal were al- over whether the aims of
Burhan unseated the civil- ruthlessly suppressed near- the support of key political ready promised in a 2020 the agreement are achiev-
ian half of Sudan’s ruling weekly pro-democracy forces, including the grass- agreement that saw Su- able, given its lack of detail
Sovereignty Council with marches. Deadly tribal roots pro-democracy Re- dan’s previous transitional on key issues and the boy-
Dagolo’s backing. clashes have flared in the sistance Committees. That government make peace cott of key players.
Since the coup, interna- country’s neglected pe- network’s leaders called for with several rebels in Su- ‘’Realistically none of these
tional aid has dried up and ripheries. demonstrations against the dan’s far-flung provinces. complex processes can be
bread and fuel shortages, It’s not clear whether agreement. According to the draft, dealt with within a transi-
caused in part by the war or how quickly the deal Several former rebel lead- the deal envisions Sudan’s tional time frame of two
in Ukraine, have become signed Monday can offer ers, who have formed their military eventually step- years,’’ said Kholood Khair,
routine, plunging Sudan’s a way out for Sudan, given own political bloc, have ping back from politics. The founder and director of
already inflation-riddled that it appears to leave also rejected the deal. document says it will form Confluence Advisory, a
economy into deeper many thorny issues unre- Many of the points in a part of a new ‘’security and think tank in Khartoum.q

Russia’s Putin drives across repaired

bridge to Crimea

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian driving the Mercedes and the bridge, Putin empha-
President Vladimir Putin not a Russian-made Auris sized the need to build a
tried to boost Russian mo- sedan, saying the president highway along the Sea of
rale Monday by driving a just used the car that was Azov coast to link Crimea
vehicle across a bridge to available. with regions in southern
Crimea that a truck bomb While driving, Putin dis- Russia, the Kremlin said.
had damaged in October. cussed the repairs of the The Oct. 8 truck bomb at-
Putin took the wheel of a Crimean Bridge with Marat tack disrupted travel on
Mercedes to drive across Khusnullin, a deputy prime one of the two automo-
the bridge that links Rus- minister in charge of the bile lanes of the bridge.
sia’s mainland with the project, an exchange that Russia blamed the attack Russian President Vladimir Putin, second left, listens to Deputy
Crimean Peninsula, which was broadcast by Russian on Ukrainian military intelli- Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, left, as he visits the Crimean
Moscow annexed from television. gence and responded with Bridge connecting Russian mainland and Crimean peninsula
Ukraine in 2014. Like other The president also spoke several waves of strikes on over the Kerch Strait, which was damaged by a truck bomb
Western automakers, Mer- to workers involved in re- Ukraine’s energy facilities attack in October, after restoration works, not far from Kerch,
cedes halted sales of vehi- storing the 19-kilometer and other key infrastruc- Crimea, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022.
cles to Russia and stopped (12-mile) bridge, which has ture. Associated Press
production at its assembly been the main conduit for Russian Foreign Minister Ser- potential and to derail ship- bases in Russia.
plant near Moscow after ferrying supplies to Crimea gey Lavrov said last week ments of Western weapons. One reportedly happened
the start of Russia’s military that has served as a key that widespread strikes tar- Ukrainian authorities said at a base that houses nu-
operation in Ukraine. base for Russian military op- geting power, telecommu- there was another such clear-capable strategic
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry erations in Ukraine. nications and water infra- barrage on Monday, hours bombers that have been
Peskov said Putin did not try In view of Ukrainian threats structure were intended to after Russian media report- involved in launching strikes
to make a political point by to launch new attacks on weaken Ukraine’s military ed two explosions at air in Ukraine.q