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Algerians and Sudanese not returning home

SHAFAQNA- IRNA: Although many not expected the end of Bouteflika and Al-Bashir, Algerians and Sudanese are still in the streets to wipe out the remnants of several decades of presidencies.

Sudanese protest rallies against the Omar Hassan Al-Bashir’s government, which had been ruling them for three decades, although started earlier than Algeria, but later achieved its goal. The most important reason for the Sudanese to pour into the streets to hold rallies against Omar Al-Bashir in late December was the problem of bread and, in the meantime, livelihood challenges.

Al-Bashir, who, after the Arab Spring storm in North Africa and other Middle Eastern countries, thought the fall of the government is only for the neighboring totalitarian regimes, refused to make the corrective measures in governance and in line with the wishes of the opposition. Consequently, the separation of southern Sudan made Al-Bashir deprived from oil revenues generated by vast southern oilfields in southern Sudan and in turn increased the economic problems associated with political and civil discontent, ending its 30-year rule.

On Thursday (April 11th), with the rise of protests and in order to control the situation, General Awad Ibn Auf, the defense minister and one of the closest figures to the center of power, read a statement on the removal of Al-Bashir, and declared a three-month emergency situation.

According to a statement by General Ibn Auf, a Military Transition Council will take over the Sudanese Administration for two years, and will be followed by a popular government.

The Sudanese developments have led to a meeting of the UN Security Council one day after the coup. At the meeting, the Sudanese envoy in the United Nations in order to legitimize military action, announced that the transition period for the Military Transitional Council could be shortened, depending on the domestic accords, and that the elected government would be ahead of time.

The promise of the military officials to step aside after two years or less did not stop the opposition from leaving the streets. The opposition groups, including the Sudan Trade Union, which allegedly supported the coup of the army and refused to act in support of the government, regard the military regime as a continuation of the sovereignty of Al-Bashir.

Some media outlets have spoken over a couple of recent days of a secret game by governments such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia to continue the rule of the elite government of Al-Bashir and refer to his arrest as an agreement between him and the military. What reinforces this idea is the announcement that the former president will not be sent to international tribunals to be investigated on his charges over the ‘Darfur massacre’.

In the wake of these developments, and with continued general objections to the generals’ rule, Al-Bashir’s defense minister Ibn Auf stepped down from the head of the Military Transition Council and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Abdul Fattah al-Barahan occupied his position.

**Algeria in turmoil

In the days when Sudan is inflamed by political protests, Algerians are also pursuing fundamental changes in their country’s politics and government.

The spark of street protests in Algeria was followed by the early March announcement by Abdul Aziz Bouteflika on his nomination for candidacy of the presidential election after twenty years of presidency, for the fifth consecutive term.

The intensification of opposition protests made it possible for the military to enter the political scene, like Sudan, not in the form of a coup. Following the explicit position of General Ahmed Qaed Saleh, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Algerian Army, who was also a close associate of President Bouteflika the due to a failure to perform his statutory duties was required to abandon the post by Constitutional Council, he announced his quit.

After the 10th of April, the Parliament of Algeria, in accordance with article 102 of the Constitution of this country, appointed Abdul Qadir bin Salih, chairman of the parliament, for a period of 90 days as the interim president to hold the presidential election.

In spite of the differences between the developments in Algeria and Sudan in the ups and downs of the developments, the level of peaceful confrontation between protesters and government forces, the status of opposition groups and, ultimately, the position of the military in the transition of power, is a fundamental link between the events of the two countries; there is no doubt that the two countries are looking at the direction of the developments and calling for the abandonment of the ruling policies and elite in power rather than the replacement of one person at the top of the power pyramid.

In this regard, both the Algerians and Sudanese have also considered the experiences of other Middle Eastern and North African countries in the Arab Spring in late 2010 and early 2011.

At the moment, Sudan is overshadowed by the power of the military and the repetition of the phenomenon of Al-Bashirism. Eight years ago, in Egypt, after the departure of Hosni Mubarak, the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces took power, he then transferred power to elected President Mohammed Al-Mursi, but now what is happening in Egypt is Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi’s attempt for the extension of presidency; that is precisely the same process that has created decade-old presidencies in the region.

On the other hand, after the fall of ‘Ali Abdullah Salih’ in Yemen, the arrival of his deputy ‘ Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi ‘ led to a worsening of the situation in the country, and ultimately the war and the famine broke out.

According to such experiences, the people of Algeria and Sudan in the Arab Spring are pursuing deeper transformations than the displacement of a person at the head of the political structure and returning to homes and leaving the streets in order to fulfill this demand.

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