Tasis Prime Minister Mohamed Hassan al-Ta'aishi has ordered state officials to inventory and hand over the assets of dissolved civil administrations within a week, while a Dagalo-backed tribal delegation has brokered a charter of honour on the border with the Central African Republic.
The prime minister of the Tasis-led Government of Peace and Unity, Mohamed Hassan al-Ta'aishi, on Saturday 31 October directed the secretaries-general of state governments to begin handover procedures immediately, following the decree that dissolved the wartime civil administrations in four Darfur states and West Kordofan, Al-Sulta and Madania News reported.
A one-week deadline
According to the directive, carried by the Ministry of Cabinet Affairs, officials must prepare handover memoranda for every ministry, department and unit at state and locality level. They must list files, records and financial documents, and carry out a full inventory of buildings, vehicles, equipment, stores, official seals and letterheads. They must also prepare a statement of financial obligations and contracts and of staff files and appointments made under the old administrations. Detailed reports are due to the ministry within a week, and no asset or record may be disposed of, moved or altered without approval.
Analysis: A documented inventory, with a deadline and a reporting line to the cabinet, is the kind of step that makes later audit possible. Whether the reports are published will show how far the new framework brings transparency as well as control.
Reconciliation on the CAR border
In South Darfur, a delegation led by Mahmoud Abdelrahman Bishara Ali al-Sanusi, paramount chief of the Ta'aisha, visited Um Dafuq on the border with the Central African Republic on the instructions of Presidential Council chairman Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo and under al-Ta'aishi's supervision, Al-Tanwir and The Sudan Times reported. The delegation oversaw the payment of diya (blood money), which the reports said Dagalo had funded, to families with outstanding claims. The amount and the number of families were not disclosed.
On Sunday 1 November local leaders in Um Dafuq signed a charter of honour in the presence of the paramount chief and the security services, Al-Tanwir reported. The charter criminalises sheltering people involved in theft, looting or highway robbery. It sets up a joint committee to follow up complaints, recover stolen property and settle compensation. Signatories rejected hate speech and incitement, pledged not to harbour armed movements, and committed to respect the sovereignty and borders of neighbouring states and to settle disputes through dialogue and traditional mediation (judiya).
Um Dafuq lies on a cross-border corridor where farming, herding and trade routes meet, and communal disputes have repeatedly turned violent. No comprehensive settlement of all outstanding disputes has yet been announced, The Sudan Times noted.
Photo: A village in South Darfur, 2018. Chansey, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.