In Sudan lies true test of AU stand on coups, military rule

Sudanese forces are deployed around army headquarters as they try to disperse a sit-in protest in Khartoum, Sudan, June 3, 2019. [AFP]

The Transitional Military Council (TMC) has resorted to a massacre as a way of crushing a people-driven agitation for civilian-led transitional rule in the troubled Sudan. It is safe to assume that the TMC will do everything to remain in power, because it now needs to shield itself from accountability for mass killings perpetrated under its watch.

Already, the Peace and Security Council has invoked an African Union article of faith, the Lomé Declaration on the Framework for a Response to Unconstitutional Changes of Government, in suspending Sudan from all AU activities until the country restores civilian rule.