Darfur regional governor and TASIS Presidential Council member Hadi Idris said the movement’s founding documents settle key questions on the state’s identity and security sector, including separating religion from the state and establishing a single, professional national army.
“We agreed to dissolve the Islamic Movement and the National Congress Party, and we endorsed supra-constitutional principles that cannot be overridden in the future,” Idris said in a speech. He added that TASIS will negotiate with political and social forces on the basis of this vision, which will determine its proximity to—or distance from—any initiative for a comprehensive settlement.
Idris stressed that Darfur “will not be governed again from Port Sudan or Khartoum” and that its people “will not accept authority imposed by the military or the Islamic Movement.”
Celebrating the formation of a Darfur government, he framed it as the birth of a new era rooted in clear political and constitutional values where citizens’ voices prevail and freedoms and coexistence take hold, with the aim of ending the wars that have devastated Darfur and Sudan.
Addressing Darfur’s communities, Idris said Sudan’s national crisis did not begin on April 15 but was the product of decades of monopolized power and wealth, unfair participation, and unequal distribution. He said the “old Sudan” was built on exclusion, marginalization, and violence—fueling repeated, destructive conflicts and widespread poverty—while the new phase seeks justice, partnership, and reconciliation. He concluded that the emergence of a Darfur government signals an end to injustice and the opening of a chapter of coexistence, cooperation, and fraternity.
