"We can call it a caretaker government, a wartime government, it's a government that will help us complete what remains of our military objectives, which is freeing Sudan from these rebels," Burhan told a meeting of army-aligned politicians in the army's stronghold of Port Sudan on Saturday.
Sudan's foreign ministry has unveiled a post-war roadmap toward establishing democratic elections in a country ravaged by nearly two years of civil war, while calling on the international community to support its transition plans. The announcement comes as the Sudanese Armed Forces has made significant gains against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces and president of the Transitional Sovereign Council, announced on Saturday that a new government would be formed.
After a lightning offensive, Sudan’s military is close to regaining control of the country’s capital, Khartoum, for the first time since a rebel general plunged the East African nation into civil war nearly two years ago. Government troops have gained what could be a crucial strategic advantage in recent days by seizing multiple neighborhoods in the ruins of central Khartoum and cornering rebels of the Rapid Support Forces in the most significant remaining stronghold in the capital, the Republican Palace, the presidential residence.
