{"id":8374,"date":"2019-08-21T12:11:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T07:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=8374"},"modified":"2019-08-21T12:11:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T07:11:10","slug":"sudan-forms-army-civilians-sovereign-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/8374","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Forms Army-Civilians Sovereign Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Sudan&#8217;s military leaders and opposition alliance have formed a sovereign council to lead the country during its three-year transition to civilian rule.<\/p>\n<p>Made up of six civilians and five military officers, it will initially be led by Lt-Gen Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan. The new, 11-member Sovereign Council is to rule Sudan for a little over three years until elections can be held.<\/p>\n<p>Lt-Gen Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan\u00a0took over as Sudanese leader following the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir.<\/p>\n<p>The council will be sworn in on Wednesday morning.\u00a0A prime minister is expected to be sworn in later that day.<\/p>\n<p>The latest moves were announced by a spokesman for the ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC).<\/p>\n<p>The TMC took over from Mr Bashir in April. Sudan has subsequently seen pro-democracy protests and security crackdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The main challenge for the new government will be an economic crisis stemming from a shortage of foreign currency, resulting in a cash crunch and long lines for fuel and bread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan&#8217;s military leaders and opposition alliance have formed a sovereign council to lead the country during its three-year transition to civilian rule. Made up of six civilians and five military officers, it will initially be led by Lt-Gen Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan. The new, 11-member Sovereign Council is to rule Sudan for a little over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8375,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374\/revisions\/8375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}