Abdalla Hamdok was reinstated as Sudan’s prime minister after his military service

Sudanese civilian and military leaders have signed an agreement to reinstate Abdalla Hamdok as prime minister a month after the military seized control of the country and detained him.

The alliance signed on Sunday by Hamdok and Abdel Fattah Burhan, Sudan’s prime minister and insurgent leader, will bring ordinary people back to the transition government, and open the way for elections in 2023.

The 14-point agreement seeks to revisit what happened in 2019 as part of a hybrid government, which shares power between the military and the civilian population and oversees the Sudanese regime following the fall of the long-running dictator Omar. al-Bashir after months of protests

It also provides for the release of all political prisoners detained since October 25, which led to mass protests, US criticism, suspension of the country from the African Union and suspension of World Bank aid.

The conflict lasted for several weeks between the civilian and military factions in the transitional government before the military coup. Burhan is due to hand over the reins to Hamdok this month, and for the first time in decades the common man will lead Sudan.

“When I accepted the appointment as prime minister, I realized that the road was not full of flowers, it could be a difficult task, full of dangers and dangers,” Hamdok said at the signing ceremony. “Still, holding hands, we can. . . so that our country may not enter an unknown place. ”

To end the “bloodshed” in recent weeks – when at least 40 people have been killed in a riot of security forces, according to a Sudanese medical committee – he added: “This alliance will end tensions.”

Burhan, who has previously denied that the military had seized power, said Hamdok, who was detained last month, “we have always had confidence and respect.”

He also said that Sunday’s agreement “will open the way for a lasting transition” and promised “to march until we reach a transparent, democratic and peaceful and safe transition to a civilian and democratic state”.

Protesters in the streets of the capital Khartoum on Sunday said they had rejected the agreement, saying they wanted to lose the war.

Surrounded by Sudanese flags and chanting “no return to war”, referring to Bashir’s 30-year dictatorship, he continued to build barricades and confront security forces.

Amanda Hindi, a 25-year-old medical doctor, staged a protest along with many others on the main street in Al-Zohur, where a protester was killed this week. “Even if Hamdok says, we do not want a union, we do not agree with it,” he said. “We want a complete government – and that’s it.”