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Ousted Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir admitted that he bore responsibility for the June 30, 1989 coup, in his first statement before the judiciary since he was ousted and detained on April 11, 2019, saying: "I know that confession is the master of evidence."

Sudan’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal submitted by the Steering Committee of the Sudanese Bar Association (SBA) for the union to be re-established as it was under the former Al Bashir regime.

“Sudan’s political actors and international partners should ensure that progress on human rights and accountability for serious human rights violations are central to any new transition”, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement published on Tuesday.

The mainstream Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party announced its departure from the ranks of the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition due to the fact that the majority of coalition parties signed the Framework Agreement, which the party believes is “devoted to legitimising the October 25 coup”.

Eight separate incidents of attacks on civilians in Darfur and Kordofan regions were reported to Radio Dabanga this week, in addition to reports that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized four Zamzam camp residents last week.

The Forces for Freedom and Change-Central Council (FFC-CC) announced that extensive consultations on the outstanding issues of the Final Agreement with the military junta will start soon. Signatories of the signed Framework Agreement will visit Sudan’s states in the hope to convince more parties to sign.

The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors reported yesterday that 43 protesters were wounded during anti-framework-agreement demonstrations in the Sudanese capital on Monday.

More than 40 parties, movements, and professional groups signed the long-awaited political framework agreement with the military junta at the Republican Palace in Khartoum yesterday. Resistance Committees staged a protest march to condemn the agreement.

Chairman of the Sovereignty Council and military leader Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan said that “the military’s final exit from the political process must be accompanied by the exit of the political parties from participating in the government of the transitional period”. Deputy Chairman Mohamed ‘Hemeti’ Dagalo surprisingly called the coup ‘a mistake’.

Wajdi Saleh, a leading member of the mainstream Forces for Freedom and Change for the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party, was released on bail on Sunday, meanwhile, a trial of young men accused of killing a police officer was adjourned.