UAE Interferes in Sudan Affairs and Practices Incitement

The UAE has increased its suspected involvement in the affairs of Sudan to incitement against one of the parties to the recent agreement on the civil transfer of governance.

UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash claimed on Twitter that Sudan had folded the page of the rule of Omar al-Bashir and the Muslim Brotherhood.

“Sudan is turning the page of the rule of al-Bashir and the Brotherhood into a new era in its political history by turning to civilian rule,” Gargash said. “The road to a state of institutions, stability and prosperity will not be filled with roses.”

This is the first official comment by the UAE on a declaration that Sudan’s ruling Military Transitional Council and the main opposition alliance have agreed on a constitutional document that would pave the way for the formation of a transitional government.

The document outlined the interim government and was reached after talks brokered by the African Union and Ethiopia, sometimes suspended for violence on the streets of Khartoum and other cities.

The declaration states that the coalition will appoint a prime minister as soon as the document is signed and the prime minister will be charged with forming the government in consultation with the coalition, but the military council will appoint the ministers of defense and interior.

The declaration also calls for the formation of a 300-member legislature to function during the transitional period. The Freedom and Change Declaration will have 67 percent of the seats, while other political groups not affiliated with Bashir will control the rest of the seats.

Immediately after the start of the transitional government or the Council of Sovereignty, Sudan will begin a three-year transitional period expected to lead to elections.

The two sides agreed last month that the Sovereign Council would consist of 11 members, five officers chosen by the military council and a similar number of civilians chosen by the Forces for Freedom and Change, along with another civilian agreed upon by the two sides. He will be the first president of the army.

When the Sovereign Council is formed, the current military council will be dissolved under the chairmanship of Lieutenant General Abdul Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy, General Mohammad Hamdan, who heads the Rapid Support Force, which some of its members are accused of the involvement in the killing of demonstrators.

Since the start of the popular revolution in Sudan, which started last December and eventually led to the overthrow of the Sudanese army by President Omar al-Bashir, the UAE was involved in a suspicious intervention in the affairs of Sudan and try to influence his popular revolution.

The chants of refusing to enter the UAE and its suspicious funds were still present in protests by Sudanese, revolutionary and opposition forces amid warnings of Abu Dhabi’s abhorrent support for the Transitional Military Council.

Tweeters responded to Gargash’s tweet by attacking the disgraceful position of the UAE in leading counter-revolutions to abort the Arab Spring revolutions, including in Sudan.