Sudan

Sudanese leaders have postponed the signing of an agreement planned for Saturday. The deal was intended to pave the way for a return to democratic government, an official said, blaming the delay on continued disagreement between military factions.

Since the end of last year, Sudan's political faction groups - the military leadership and civilian political parties - have been negotiating a peace accord aimed at reinstating a civilian administration

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan reiterates that the army will be brought under a civilian-led government as talks on military reforms began on Sunday.

The parties to a watershed political agreement in Sudan – signed in December 2022 – have launched a fresh round of consultations on key challenges facing the country, the senior UN official in Khartoum told the Security Council on Monday, citing several important breakthroughs that have already emerged from that process. 

The civilian and military signatories of the Political Framework Agreement agreed to form a committee to draft the final agreement, as they are approaching the end of the political process on the restoration of a transitional civilian government in Sudan.

The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday extended for another year a Sudan arms embargo and targeted sanctions regime. … Resolution 2676 (2023) was voted by 13 of 15 members. China and the Russian Federation abstained.

During an update to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the UN rights chief highlighted the death on Tuesday of a 17-year-old demonstrator, shot dead by a police officer in the Sharq Alnil area of Khartoum, "one of 125 people to die since protests began over 16 months ago, one in five of whom have been children under the age of 18".

Positive developments were observed in the political situation in the Sudan, after more than a year of stalemate resulting from the military coup of 25 October 2021.

The Sudanese military-led transitional government and several armed signatories to the Juba peace agreement on Sunday signed a two-year new implementation matrix for implementing the pact.

Sudan called on Sunday for the lift of sanctions including a panel of experts assisting to monitor the implementation of these sanctions including an arms embargo on the Darfur region. … During his visit to Khartoum on February 9, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pledged to support Sudan’s efforts to get rid of the sanctions.