December 10, 2020 at 5:00 pm
The pressure for Sudan's far left to be isolated from the country's politics reached its climax this week with the formation of a new council from which its representatives will be excluded. The President of Sudan and leader of the ruling Sovereign Transitional Council (STC), Abdel Fatah Al-Burhan, has secured himself as head of the new Council of Transition Partners (CTP) without appointing a deputy, but has already signalled that members of the communist and far left parties will not be invited as members of the new body.
In a letter announcing its formation, he said that the CTP has been created specifically to incorporate the armed groups who had recently signed a peace deal to end decades of hostilities. The new council will be "responsible for leading the transition period, resolving differences [between those in power] and having all the necessary prerogatives to exercise its power," reported Sudan's official news agency.