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WORLD NEWS Monday 20 May 2019

Sudan's military council resumes talks with protesters

By OMAR AKOUR and SAMY "The assailants who as the roads were cleared
MAGDY opened fire (on protesters) without incident on Thurs-
Associated Press have been caught. Their day. The protesters also
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) confessions will be broad- agreed to open the railway
— Sudan's ruling military cast on TV," said Dagalo, that crosses the area of the
council is meeting with pro- who heads the paramilitary sit-in for five hours a day.
testers on Sunday to dis- Rapid Support Forces. The generals and the pro-
cuss the country's political He hailed the Forces for the testers remain divided on
transition after talks were Declaration of Freedom what role the military should
halted for three days while and Change, which rep- have in the transition to ci-
roads were cleared outside resents the protesters, for vilian rule. Sunday's talks
the main sit-in in the capi- their role in al-Bashir's mili- are expected to focus on
tal, Khartoum. tary overthrow on April 11. the makeup of the sover-
The two sides have held "We want the democracy eign council, which would
several rounds of talks since they are talking about. guide the nation through
the military overthrew Presi- We want a real democra- the transition.
dent Omar al-Bashir last cy, fair and free elections. The Forces for the Dec- In this April 30, 2019 file photo, Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo,
month, ending his 30-year Whoever the Sudanese laration of Freedom and the deputy head of the military council, second right, speaks at
a press conference in Khartoum, Sudan.
reign after four months of choose will rule," he said. Change said it insists on Associated Press
mass protests and sit-ins, The negotiations were sus- "limited military representa-
which are still underway. pended Wednesday, just tion" in a sovereign council
The deputy head of the hours after the military and led by civilians.
military council, Gen. Mo- the protesters announced Saudi Arabia meanwhile
hammed Hamdan Dagalo, they had agreed on the announced on Sunday
better known as Hemedti, makeup of an interim par- that it had deposited $250
meanwhile said late Sat- liament and a Cabinet million into Sudan's central
urday that security forces for the transitional period, bank, part of a package of
have arrested those be- which is to last three years. $3 billion which Saudi Ara-
hind an attack on the pro- The military council had bia and the United Arab
testers last week that killed called for the roads outside Emirates pledged after al-
at least five people, includ- the sit-in in front of the mili- Bashir's ouster to shore up
ing an army officer. Both tary's headquarters in Khar- the economy. Saudi Ara-
the military and the protest- toum to be opened. The bia and the UAE had jointly
ers had blamed the attack protesters appear to have paid $500 million to the
on al-Bashir loyalists. agreed to the demand, central bank on April 21.q
2 Malta soldiers charged with

race crimes in migrant death

VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — from Guinea and Gambia, of life in prison. Migration is
Two Maltese soldiers have who were seriously injured a key political issue for the
pleaded not guilty to in the attack. The death Mediterranean island na-
charges they participated of Ivorian Lassana Cisse is tion, particularly ahead of
in a racially-motivated, fa- believed to be Malta's first European Parliament elec-
tal drive-by shooting of a racially motivated slaying tions this week. Maltese po-
migrant from Ivory Coast. amid Europe's current de- litical leaders and Catholic
The two men, Lorin Sciclu- bate over migration. Church officials have been
na and Francesco Fenech, The charges, which include speaking out against grow-
were also charged Sunday racial hatred and commit- ing hate speech against
with the April 6 attempted ting a racially motivated migrants, particularly on so-
murder of two other men crime, carry a maximum cial media.q