As demonstrations took to the streets across Sudan today to mark International Women’s Day , the head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Sudan has acknowledged “the critical roles that Sudanese women and girls continue to play to shape a brighter future,” saying that “their courage and perseverance give us hope and added determination in pursuing our path to work even harder to empower them”.
The Chairman of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council and General Commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, has pledged that the SAF will leave all political frameworks if a national consensus is reached through elections.
The UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) has started talks with various democratic groups and parties in the country. The Sudanese resistance committees active on grass roots level in all parts of the country will present their joint standpoint in a political charter that is currently being drafted.
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