General Abdel Fattah Al Burhan denied any friction between civilian and military members of the council leading Sudan’s transition to civilian rule.

Disaffected members of Sudan’s military elite pushed out of power when Omar Al Bashir was overthrown a year ago have made their lethal presence felt.

Last month Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok survived an assassination attempt when his convoy was attacked in the capital Khartoum.

General Abdel Fattah Al Burhan’s assertion that members of the National Congress Party led by Bashir are in cahoots is a further indication of the delicate and dangerous job the transitional government has to do. 

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Differences between military and civilian members of the transitional government over how to handle the COVID 19 pandemic illustrate the fragility of the process leading to elections in 2022.

Disputes between civilian and military elements of the transitional government has led to open confrontation.

Governor of Khartoum General Ahmed Abdoun Hamad refuses to accept his dismissal by civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok for filling to stop Friday prayers in the capital and Omdurman,  its shadow city across the Nile.

Sudan has had 32 confirmed cases of COVID 19, causing five deaths.

The country’s health services were neglected by Omar Al Bashir, who was deposed in a coup a year ago, and cannot deal an emergency.

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General Gamal al-Din Omar died of a heart attack in neighbouring South Sudan where he was negotiating with rebel groups.

The head of Sudan’s transitional government General Abdel Fatah al Burhan says the nation mourns a man seeking to bring stability to a country that has been shaky since last year’s fall of 30-year military dictator Omar al Bashir.

General Gamal al-Din Omar was a member of the power sharing transitional government comprising the military and civilian groups that last year brought down Bashir.

He died in Juba where he was involved in talks with Sudanese rebel groups he was trying to bring into the political process.

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A number of arrests have been made since the attack on Monday. Some of them foreigners.

Abdalla Hamdok was unscathed when explosives and gunfire were launched on his convoy taking him to work in Khartoum.

It underlines the fragility of Sudan’s transition to civilian rule after last year’s fall of Omar Al Bashir.

The arrival in Sudan of FBI agents supporting  investigations into the  attack shows how relations between Washington Khartoum have warmed since Al Bashir’s departure.

Sudan under him was regarded as an international pariah for which it drew economic and military sanctions. 

Sudan was on Washington’s list of terrorist supporting states for which it attracted sanctions.

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Crowds are chanting support for Abdallah Hamdok at the spot in Khartoum where two vehicles show the damage from the would be killers’ explosives and  bullets . 

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The assassination bid nearly a year after the fall of Omar Al Bashir shows the fragility of Sudan’s transformation to civilian rule.

The attackers struck Abdallah Hamdok convoy as he drove to work.

One security guard was injured.

The economist turned politician said he was unscathed.

The assassination bid would not change the path of change, he tweeted.

It will put additional pressure on the strong wave of the revolution.

Hamdok is a former deputy head of the United Nations  Economic Commission for Africa.

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But although the transitional government in Khartoum accepts the  inevitability of this, there are many hurdles to clear before it happens.

The extradition of ousted President Omar Al Bashir and other members of his regime wanted by the International Criminal Court is an integral part of peace negotiations on Darfur.

Khartoum authorities are saying its rests very heavily on a sustainable agreement being negotiated on Sudan’s troubled western region.

Most importantly it depends on what happens after the ICC has tried Al Bashir.

Sudan’s new government wants him back home to stand trial for crimes committed since the 1998 coup that brought him to power.

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Al Bashir, currently serving a sentence in Sudan for corruption, is wanted by the court in The Hague for genocide and crimes against humanity.

During peace talks in Darfur, the Khartoum government said anyone wanted by the ICC would have to face the international tribunal.

Chief among these is Omar Al Bashir, indicted for his part in the deaths of more than 300 000 and displacement of two-and-a-half million in the Darfur conflict that began in 2003 and became the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet.

Al Bashir also faces charges in Sudan for the deaths of protestors leading up to his being deposed last April.

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Top Sudanese official have arrived to assess the situation in West Darfur where hundreds more troops have been deployed. 

Things have been relatively calm in Darfur for the past decade.

The United Nations called the western region of Sudan the world’s worst humanitarian crisis after fighting broke out there in 2013. 

The death toll exceeded 300 000 and more than 2,5 million were driven from their homes

The latest fighting between Arabs and Africans is centred on a  camp for internally displaced persons near the West Darfur capital of El Geneina. 

Ten villages have been torched and hundreds of people have fled into neighboring chad,

A UN AU peacekeepers camp in South Darfur has been raided.

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The Khartoum governments suspended peace talks with rebel groups in its troubled western region and is sending more troops to West Darfur.

When separatist violence began in Darfur 15 years, the region was called the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet.

Former President Omar Al Bashir is still wanted by the International Criminal Court for genocide committed by his militia – feared Janjawiid – that is still active there.

The fresh violence shows the fragility of peace efforts, particularly in West Darfur.

Some of the victims were burned to death and there are children among the fatalities.

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The United Nations says 300 000 people were killed and nearly three million displaced in the crackdown that began in 2003.

The probe was announced by state prosecutor Tagelsir Al Heber.

He says Omar Al Bashir and his intelligence hear Saleh Gosh will be investigated.

He did not mention former Janjawiid commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemetti, who is part of the transitional authority now running the country.

Al Heber says some of the investigation might be outside Sudan.

This could mean handing Al Bashir to the International Criminal Court which has indicted him for genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur.

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