The Banking Executive Magazine - July Issue 2021

transitional administration under a power-sharing agreement between the military and a broad civilian coalition of party and civil-society representatives. Though the arrange- ment is hardly a marriage of love, it offers a model of pragmatism in a re- gion that sorely needs it. The power-sharing agreement is in- tended to shepherd Sudan through a 39-month transition period that will end in late 2022, after the launch of a constitutional drafting process and parliamentary, presidential, and re- gional elections. Against all odds and predictions, the country’s experiment in military-civilian cohabitation has survived for more than a year and a half, owing largely to personal com- mitments from Prime Minister Ab- dalla Hamdok and the chairman of the Sovereignty Council, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. Emerging from 30 years of autocracy and 65 years of almost continuous civil war would pose a challenge for any new government. In Sudan’s Sudan ISSUE 151 JULY 2021 the BANKING EXECUTIVE 29