Leader of the National Umma Party, Alsadiq al-Mahdi, on Sunday called for a new
structure for the armed forces that exceeds the current stage reality and achieves
integration and demobilization in an agreed manner.
Addressing the national symposium on the national peacebuilding project
organized by the Nation's Foreign Relations Committee of the National Uma
Party, he said that the challenges of the new regime are based on four lists,
adding that “we must move the leadership of the civil-political phase from a
mobilized entity of opposition to a frontal entity led by a political vanguard
involving Youth components, women as well as partners of peacebuilding”,
explaining that the abovementioned front must be formed in a good way to
perform its duties properly, so that the concept of political leadership wouldn’t be
lost.
Speaking at national symposium forum , the leader of Umma party stressed the
necessity of following national policies in the crucial issues such as peace,
economic and social reform as well as permanent constitution. However, Al-
Mahadi, added that national conferences committed to the goals of the glorious
revolution are needed to implement the abovementioned programs so that the
great required opportunity is not missed.
Al-Mahdi stressed the importance of observing and achieving criminal and
transitional justice issues, noting that whatever the competencies of the national
political performance; we still require positions from the Arab and African
brothers. The Umma party leader said, security agreement with neighboring
countries is needed for maintaining peaceful coexistence and cooperation.
The Chairman of the Sovereign Council, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed
Forces, Lieutenant General Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, had issued a decree, late
October, making changes in the structure of the armed forces, by which he
abolished the Joint Staff Presidency system and replaced it with the old Joint
Chiefs of Staff system. It’s to be noted that the Sudanese army has followed the
recently reinstated system since Its composition after independence.
According to the second chapter of the constitutional document that was signed
on (17 August 2019), the process of reforming the military and its institutions
comes within the jurisdiction of the armed forces, where the Al-Burhan Had
earlier issued a decree forming a defense and security council under his
chairmanship and membership of the of the sovereign council. However, the
defense and security council is concerned with preparing defense and security
policies as well as taking and issuing decisions regarding the security of the
country.