Voice of America reports:
Sudan’s transitional government has agreed in principle to separate religion and state after three decades of Islamic rule in the country.
Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and Abdel-Aziz Adam al-Hilu, the leader of the rebel SPLM-North faction, signed a declaration of principles in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Thursday evening that says, “The state shall not establish an official religion. No citizen shall be discriminated against based on their religion.”
Christianity Today adds further details:
The agreement was signed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, four days after a more inclusive peace deal was signed with a coalition of rebel groups in the Sudan Revolutionary Front in Juba, South Sudan.
The Juba agreement established a national commission for religious freedom, which guarantees the rights of Christian communities in Sudan’s southern regions.