Omar al- Bashir's 30-year regime was overthrown by a military coup. Awad Ibn Auf has taken over as the interim head of the state. The people however are not happy with this and want to restore civilian administration as soon as possible. The transitional military government is likely to rule Sudan for the next two years.
While trying to overthrow Bashir's regime, the opposition that had 100 parties including leftists and Islamists now form a three-pronged bloc.
The tripartite bloc is known as the Alliance for Freedom and Change. It includes Nidaa Sudan which includes the Umma Party, the Sudanese Congress Party as well as armed movements such as the Sudan People's Liberation Movement. The opposition also includes the National Consensus Forces and the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA). Nidaa Sudan returned to Sudan this year after a year of self-imposed exile in Cairo.
The SPA has called on the transitional military council to immediately “hand over power” to a civilian administration and urged demonstrators to continue with their sit-ins. Veteran journalist Mahjoub Mohamed Saleh, says the opposition bloc has been the most consistent and well-organised in agitating for tangible political change. “For four months, these people were not afraid to put their bodies on the line,” he said.
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Spokesman of the military council, Shams El-Din Kabbashi, said that anti- corruption measures would also be strictly enforced and public order laws would be reformed, matching some of the demands of protesters.
Over 30 protesters have been killed in clashes with security forces since the uprising erupted. Saleh said that other Islamist alternatives opposing NCP policies have been a mainstay of Sudanese politics and that they will continue to survive in some form or another.
“All of these opposition movements have their followers overseas ... They represent a mass of human resources that can be drawn upon when it comes to forming a civilian government,” Saleh said.
