UN human rights chief calls for political deal in Sudan

SMA NEWS – KHARTOUM
The UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Turk has urged Sudanese factions to reach an agreement to end worsening political and economic crises which deepened following last year’s military coup.
“Any transition is delicate, and in Sudan we are at a particularly delicate stage of this transition,” Turk told reporters in Khartoum, concluding his first official visit.
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“I call on all sides involved in the political process to go the extra mile, to work toward prompt restoration of civilian rule in the country, and bring to an end the uncertainty that has left much of the population in peril.”
Sudan has been rocked by turmoil since army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan led a military coup in October last year that ousted the mainstream civilian bloc from a power-sharing government and triggered widespread international condemnation.
Near-weekly anti-coup protests, a spiraling economic crisis and heightened ethnic clashes in Sudan’s remote regions have since fed into the deepening unrest.