EDITORIAL: Sudan deal parties must not drop the ball

Sudan's protest movement Alliance for Freedom and Changes leader Ahmad al-Rabiah and deputy chief of the ruling military council Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo stand after inking a power sharing agreement before African Union and Ethiopian mediators in Khartoum early on July 17, 2019. PHOTO | HAITHAM EL-TABEI | AFP

After months of butting chests, the Transitional Military Council in Khartoum and democratic forces that have sustained protests against it on July 17 signed a transitional power-sharing agreement.

But there was barely any celebration by the protesters, whose unrelenting sit-in ousted the three-decade-old regime of Gen Omar Al Bashir in April.