Sudan’s transitional authorities on Thursday approved a law to “dismantle” the regime of former President Omar al-Bashir, including the dissolution of his political party and confiscation of all its properties. Bashir and his Islamist National Congress Party (NCP) had ruled Sudan since 1989 before a nationwide protest movement resulted in him being deposed earlier this year. Hamdok said the new law is not an act of revenge, but al-Bashir’s party condemned the decision as made by an “illegal gov’t”. He came to power in a military coup in 1989 and ruled what was until 2011 Africa’s largest country with an iron fist. When he seized power, Sudan was in the midst of a 21-year civil war between north and south.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 29, 2019 16:07 UTC