Sudan : Paramilitary, Allies Sign Transitional Constitution

Sudanese Rapid Support Force (RSF) and their allies have put in place a Transitional Constitution. The endorsement of the Constitution took place on March 3, 2025 in Nairobi after nearly two years of civil war between the RSF headed by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) under General Al-Burhan. The signing according to Sudan Tribune paves the way for the rapid setting up of a parallel government in the regions under their control in Darfur and Kordofan.
The RSF-led Constitution is designed to supplant a Constitution signed after the army and RSF ousted long-ruling leader Omar al-Bashir during an uprising in 2019. The RSF and its allies had in late February agreed in principle to form a government for a “New Sudan” as they sought to pull legitimacy from the existing army-led government and facilitate advanced arms imports. The new constitution formally establishes a government and maps out what it describes as a federal, secular State, split into eight regions. It provides for a bill of basic rights, giving regions the right to self-determination on certain conditions, chief among them separation of religion and the State. 
It also calls for a single national army, with the signatories as the “nucleus”. Elections are mentioned as an outcome of the transitional period, without any fixed timetable. As for the governance system, it will be decentralized at the political, administrative, constitutional and financial levels. At the head of the country, the text stipulates that, there will be a sort of “Presidential Council of M...