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A12 WORLD NEWS
Monday 8 July 2019

Sudan protesters cancel marches in wake of agreement

By FAY ABUELGASIM in the movement. The FDFC
SAMY MAGDY said Friday they would work
Associated Press to establish peace with
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) rebel groups during the first
— Sudan’s pro-democra- six months of the transition-
cy movement on Satur- al period. Earlier this week,
day abandoned plans for the military council had
marches next week, after agreed with Minnawi to ex-
it reached a power-sharing tend a cease-fire and start
deal with the ruling military peace talks.
council following a week- The power-sharing deal
slong standoff over the role was meant to end a week-
of the army in the transition. slong political deadlock
Both sides agreed on Friday between the military coun-
to form a joint military and cil and the protest move-
civilian sovereign council ment since security forces
to lead the country during razed the Khartoum sit-in,
a transition period of three killing more than 100 peo-
years and three months, ple since then, according
sparking street celebrations to protest organizers.
in the capital of Khartoum In the ensuing weeks, pro-
and other cities across the testers stayed in the streets,
county. demanding that the gen-
Rebel groups, however, erals hand power to civilian
slammed the long-waited leadership.
deal as a “betrayal of the Sudanese people celebrate in the streets of Khartoum after ruling generals and protest leaders They resumed negotiations
revolution” that led to the announced they have reached an agreement on the disputed issue of a new governing body on on Wednesday after tens of
military ouster of autocratic Friday, July 5, 2019. thousands of people flood-
President al-Bashir in April Associated Press ed the streets of Sudan’s
amid nationwide protests to “achieve peace and The new schedule includ- Minni Minnawi, said Friday main cities last weekend in
against his nearly three de- justice.” ed meetings, workshops a peace deal had to be the biggest demonstrations
cades of rule. The FDFC abandoned and campaigns across reached with rebel groups since the sit-in camp was
Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, previously announced the country. The FDFC said before embarking on the razed. At least 11 people
head of the military coun- marches next week on it was “an initial part of deal’s planned transition. were killed in clashes with
cil, vowed Saturday to the 40-days anniversary of a comprehensive action Another faction of the SLM, security forces, according
“protect and implement” a deadly beak-up of their plan” aimed at rooting out led by Abdel Wahid al-Nur, to protest organizers.
the deal. He said the mili- protest sit-in outside the mil- members of the al-Bashir slammed the deal as a “be- After two-day intense talks,
tary council would work itary headquarters on June regime. trayal of the revolution.” both sides agreed to form
closely with the Forces for 3. Sudanese rebel groups crit- The SLM — then fighting a joint military and civilian
Declaration of Freedom Earlier this week, the FDFC icized the power-sharing an insurgency in the Darfur sovereign council to lead
and Change, which repre- had called for marches in deal, which came after region — split into rival fac- the country during a tran-
sents the protesters in ne- Khartoum and elsewhere intensive efforts by the Afri- tions in 2004. Minnawi has sition period of three years
gotiations, and other po- on July 13 and for a gener- can Union and Ethiopia. joined a political coalition and three months. The joint
litical forces “to build and al strike and civil disobedi- A faction of the Sudan Lib- with the protesters, while council had been a sticking
protect” the country and ence the following day. eration Movement, led by al-Nur refused to take part point in the negotiations.q

Investigators recover helicopter that crashed in Bahamas

Associated Press sions about the cause of confirmed that David Jude
HAVANA (AP) — Accident the crash. They do not also was killed in the crash.
investigators in the Baha- believe a distress call was Bahamas Police Supt.
mas say they have recov- made, and they only be- Shanta Knowles said Satur-
ered the helicopter that gan searching after police day that Geoffrey Painter
crashed after taking off received a report from Flor- of Barnstaple in the United
from a remote private is- ida that the craft had failed Kingdom also was killed,
land on July 4, killing coal to arrive in Fort Lauderdale and she confirmed the oth-
billionaire Chris Cline and as expected. er victims’ identities to The
six other Americans, as well Those killed included Cline’s Associated Press.
as a British citizen. 22-year-old daughter, Ka- Cline began toiling in the
The Bahamas Air Accident meron, and three of her mines of southern West Vir-
Investigation Department close friends: Brittney Layne ginia at a young age, rising
said on its website that a Searson, Jillian Clark, and through the ranks of his fa-
Florida-based contractor Delaney Wykle. Searson, ther’s company quickly be-
pulled the Agusta AW139 Clark and Kameron Cline fore forming his own energy
helicopter from the ocean In this handout photo provided by the Bahamas ZNS Network, a were recent graduates of development business, the
late Saturday night. recovery team stands by at the wreckage site where a helicopter Louisiana State University. Cline Group, which grew
The helicopter was expect- carrying four women and three men, including billionaire coal Wykle had recently gradu- into one of the country’s
ed to be taken to Fort Lau- entrepreneur Chris Cline and his daughter, crashed outside a ated from West Virginia Uni- top coal producers.
derdale and then to an ac- string of islands Cline owned in the Bahamas, Friday, July 5, 2019. versity. Brad Ullman, execu- He went on to amass a for-
cident investigation facility Associated Press tive director of the West tune and became a major
in Fort Pierce, Florida. Authorities have said it is too early to draw conclu- Virginia Golf Association, Republican donor.q