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‘Exciting and potentially defining’ moment for Sudan, with people ‘taking power back’, says top UN Adviser

‘Exciting and potentially defining’ moment for Sudan, with people ‘taking power back’, says top UN Adviser

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With Sudan so much at the centre of the whole “volatile” Horn of Africa region, its political fate will have major “implications for a number of other quite vulnerable” neighbouring countries, according to the UN’s Special Adviser on the country.

Nicholas Haysom, was recently in New York, and in an interview with UN News, spoke about how “resolving the Sudanese crisis would generate stability” for the entire region.

Sudan has remained deadlocked in recent weeks over a power-sharing agreement between a coalition of opposition and protest groups and Sudan’s ruling Military Council, although on Wednesday, a potentially-historic “political agreement” was signed, with negotiations continuing towards a three-year power sharing deal, to be followed by a return to full civilian rule.

Mr. Haysom spoke to UN News’s Ben Malor, late last week.

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