{"id":51678,"date":"2019-11-23T10:07:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T02:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51678"},"modified":"2019-11-23T10:07:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T02:07:53","slug":"sudanese-urged-to-be-patient-with-political-transition-governing-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51678","title":{"rendered":"Sudanese urged to be patient with political transition: Governing council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/world\/Sudanese-urged-to-be-patient-with-political-transition-801425?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/626\/62651074.295.jpg\" alt=\"Aisha Musa is one of two women on Sudan's Sovereign Council\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Aisha Musa <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KHARTOUM, Nov 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A civilian member of Sudan&#8217;s governing council has urged people to be patient in their wait for change, after the overthrow of the former president, Omar Bashir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aisha Musa, a teacher and activist appointed to the 11 member Sovereign Council, told the BBC the civilian and military members of the body were all working hard together to bring peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said it had been a bit awkward at first for civilian members of the council to work together the military leaders \u2013 but she said now they were working hard together as a team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even Lt-Gen Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan, who heads the council, called her &#8220;Aunt Aisha&#8221; as a mark of their respect and improved relations, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8221; I don\u2019t find any difficulty in asking him about his family or how is he doing or why is he late \u2013 anything. And he would call me Aunt Aisha.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She acknowledged being frustrated at the slow pace of change in the economic situation, and called for rules curbing the progress of women to be abolished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sovereign Council will govern for a transitional period that is due to end with elections in 2022. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aisha Musa KHARTOUM, Nov 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A civilian member of Sudan&#8217;s governing council has urged people to be patient in their wait for change, after the overthrow of the former president, Omar Bashir. Aisha Musa, a teacher and activist appointed to the 11 member Sovereign Council, told the BBC the civilian and military members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51678"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}