The spokesperson of the Egyptian presidency said that the African leaders at the consultation meeting on the crisis in Sudan, held under the umbrella of the African Union (AU) in Cairo on Tuesday, have agreed to give Sudan's Transitional Military Council (TMC) a three-month grace period to form a government and outline the broad strokes of civilian rule in a transitional period for the country. According to Rady, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, who chairs the AU in 2019, has succeeded in arguing for extending 15-day grace period given earlier to the TMC by the AU Commission to three months. The leaders at the meeting agreed that the 15-day notice was insufficient for a transitional period. The chief of the AU Commission Moussa Faki had delivered on Sunday a 15-day deadline to the TMC to transfer power to a civilian government during a visit to Sudan.
