Sudan: Is This An Impending Doom Or A Future In Making?

In this era, where we are on the verge of making mechanised human without any flaw and mistakes, there is still a country fighting against the ancient barbaric nature of its own protectors.

There was a knock of a good news on the doors of Sudan, which has been under the table hiding from its own military base.

But today they have reached an unexpected decision which is one of its kind. After months of living behind the blinds of unethical rules and running for their own protectors, a ray of new hope shone upon them in the impersonation of African Union (AU).

The two sides agreed on establishing a sovereign council with a rotating military and civilian [presidency] for a period of three years or a little more," AU mediator Mohamed Hassan Lebatt told reporters on Friday.

The agreement will see the military in charge for the first 21 months, then a civilian-run administration for the following 18 months.

Elections will be held once this transition period ends.

This is something which the residents didn’t even dreamt of but yet here we are witnessing the unexpected.

It has been a high time for this country to be turned into a cage of terror and savageness.

The unrest in Sudan can be traced back to December 2018, when President Bashir's government imposed emergency austerity measures in an attempt to stave off economic collapse.

The protest of the civilians to hand over the authority to them, due to the autocratic rule, watered the seeds of an inevitable futile war in the urgent future.

The country’s command went into the blood-stained hands of the army.

The former camel trader is now the commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), one of the country’s biggest paramilitary groups, but has been accused of numerous war crimes and atrocities.

The Transitional Military Council claims it needs to be in charge to retain order and security in Sudan - but the recent death toll suggests otherwise.

Security forces have killed at least 124 people in the capital and across the country in a sweeping crackdown, according to protest organisers.

More than 700 people are estimated to have been injured.

Hospitals in Khartoum have also reported70 cases of rape following attacks on protesters. The boundaries of the country aren’t just the limit the Nile had been the silent witness of this brutality turning red as, 40 corpses were uncarted from its foreign waters.

These are just the recorded numbers; the real tolls and traumas are much more quantitatively as well as qualitatively.

After living in this hellish situation, this settlement was treated as a guest who got different reactions.

Protesters "definitely wanted much more" from the deal and many are a "little bit" sceptical about the details, says Lena al-Sheikh who was out on the streets of Khartoum at the height of the protests.

"We were saying: 'Congratulations, is this real?'" she toldthe BBC's Newsday programme.

But is this the happy ending?

Since it’s a one of its kind, it comes with its own consequences which we should not be oblivious to.

Celebrations and scepticism have greeted the new deal. Will it hold? Fears of the unknown are not surprising.

In recent weeks the military appeared less willing to share power. But with international pressure and African Union mediation, they've accepted it

There are also concerns about the ambition displayed by Lt-Gen Mohamed Hamdan "Hemeti" Dagolo. The military council's number-two heads the dreaded Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group that's been accused of brutality.

Hemeti came into the limelight as a fierce commander of the government-backed Janjaweed militia in Darfur.

Many will be uncomfortable if Lt-Gen Mohamed Hamdan "Hemeti" Dagolo gets a top job

Amongst this rollercoaster of insurrection and then this settlement, “a war of power”, tremors were felt by the civilians leading to an unrepairable damage. There are no reparations and no help for their damage.

It started as a plea of the civilians to fight against the unjust government and ended up ruining their own lives.

In this flood of power and politics, civilians are still in the waters, tortured and drenched ,but still swimming with a hope of a better future.