Transitional Constitutional Document (2019)

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At present (2025), there is an ongoing conflict in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces. On 23 February 2025, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied political and armed groups signed a charter in Nairobi aimed at establishing a parallel government in Sudan and on 3 March 2025, the RSF and allied groups signed a ‘transitional constitution’ formally establishing the framework for a parallel government. The constitution outlines a secular, democratic and decentralized governance structure with a phased transitional period leading to elections, though no fixed timetable is provided. It reorganizes Sudan into federal, regional, and local levels, mandates military reforms, dissolves militias, and ensures equal citizenship, while granting regions self-determination rights if secularism and other conditions are not upheld. Those documents are not available but the ones included here are the Constitutional Document of 2019 (signed by the SAF, RSF and the Forces of Freedom and Change Coalition) and the 2025 amendment to the 2019 Constitutional Document (see under 'related documents').
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