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Sudan, Rebel Alliance reach Deal in ongoing Peace Efforts.
Negotiating an end to the rebellions in Sudan’s far-flung provinces has been a crucial goal for the transitional government, which assumed power after a popular uprising led the military to overthrow President Omar al-Bashir in April 2019. Authorities hope to revive the country’s battered economy through slashing military spending, which takes up much of the national budget.
Sudan is currently ruled by a military-civilian government, with elections possible in late 2022. A cease-fire between government forces and the rebels has been in place since al-Bashir’s ouster. The televised ceremony was attended by South Sudan President Salva Kiir, whose own country gained independence from Sudan in 2011 following decades of civil war. The head of Sudan’s sovereign council, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok also attended the signing. Deputy chief of the Sudanese Sovereign Council, Gen. Mohammed Hamadan Dagalo, signed the agreement along with rebel leaders.
Jonas Horner, senior Sudan analyst at the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank, called the agreement a “hugely significant sign of progress for Sudan's transition.” “But it is also far from comprehensive and only represents a first step towards peace, while significant hurdles remain in the way of its implementation,” he added. “International financial and diplomatic support, or even pressure if needed, will be imperative to make sure the parties implement the agreement.”
Malik Agar, head of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North, which is part of the rebel alliance, called for national commitment to the deal's success as well as international support, particularly through financial contributions.
“What we have achieved, through arduous and long negotiations, will be fruitless if there are no guarantees for implementation,” he said. The deal would grant self-rule for the southern provinces of Blue Nile, South Kordofan and West Kordofan, according to a draft obtained by The Associated Press. Rebel forces would be integrated into Sudan’s armed forces.
Hamdok, the prime minister, took to Twitter to hail the deal as a “start of the peace path. A peace that requires strong and firm will.” South Sudan's president described the agreement as a “milestone” in achieving peace in Sudan. Kiir vowed to “continue standing with the Sudanese to ensure the implementation of the peace agreement,” according to his advisor and mediator Tut Qalwak.
The Sudan Revolutionary Front, centered in the western Darfur region, South Kordofan and Blue Nile, is part of the pro-democracy movement that led to the uprising against al-Bashir, but the rebels didn’t fully support the military-civilian power-sharing deal. That deal includes a six-month deadline for achieving peace, which ran out in February.
Sudan’s largest single rebel group, the Sudan Liberation Movement-North led by Abdel-Aziz al-Hilu, was involved in the talks but has yet to reach a deal with the government. Al-Hilu has called for a secular state with no role of religion in lawmaking, the disbanding of al-Bashir’s militias and the revamping of the country’s military.
The group has said if its demands are not met, it would call for self-determination in areas it controls in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan provinces. Another major rebel group, the Sudan Liberation Movement-Army, which is led by Abdel-Wahid Nour, rejects the transitional government and has not taken part in the talks.
The agreement did not offer a “clear separation of state and religion” as demanded by al-Hilu's movement and many Sudanese who denounce the weaponization of religion in Sudanese politics, said Suliman Baldo, senior advisor at The Sentry, a watchdog group.
“Peace will remain far from comprehensive until the reasons that motivated the boycott of non-signatories are satisfactorily addressed,” he said.
Magdy reported from Cairo.
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The UN/World should quickly provide South Sudan with Protective Buffer Zone as to avert Genocide before South Sudan Referendum, as delays, ignorance and lackluster attitude are being designed by the Northern Sudanese Government Stooges as being organized by the Quasi Arab Political Power Hegemony who needed entire Sudan for their ethnic minority Agenda.
The expertise observation that the UN and the World Peaceful Organizations should be mindful of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Cronies and Agents parading themselves as representing South Sudan interest/agenda, but they are merely Northern Sudanese Power Hegemony stooges doing secretly Northern Sudanese Agenda as to retain its interest of Power control and holding Sudanese vast Mineral Resources for its limited quasi Arab ethnic Agenda.
The death of late Colonel John Garang who was sound minded, well educated and possessed vast political intrigues/knowledge base to be able to handle such Northern Sudanese complex Arabic politics, while his successors are merely careful recruited Cronies fronting Southern Sudanese but behind the scene, executing Northern Sudanese Governmental Agenda. Some of notable signs of being Stooges, are spiritual-Arabic trade mark of shaved eye brawn with oversize pot bellies and signs of greeting to signify their secret Arabic Stooges belonging, and quick introduction to Practices of Persian Gay Occultism before crony acting acceptance.
The political behaviors, sincere organizationally abilities coupled with their ways and manners of not requesting seriously the Buffer Zone provision from UN as to Safe Guard Southern Sudan before their voting during the Southern Sudanese Referendum, so called South Sudan Leaders not strategically petitioning and strongly requesting a UN protection/ Buffer Zone provision, simply portrays them out as Northern Sudanese Agents.
The late Colonel John Garang sterling abilities of leadership made South Sudan to reach this advantageous position, which if acre is taken with better political institutional management, will lead South Sudan to a peaceful State Separation, despite State violence and war propaganda being propagated by Northern Sudan. Also, their Southern Sudanese agents are capable of sabotaging World efforts being put in place, as to assist the South Sudan, into a Peaceful State Separation. But South Sudan have witnessed Civil Wars and Ethnic Violence with Hunger, Starvation and Material Deprivation for Decades in the Hands of the Northern Sudanese Control Despotic Regime and will be able to manage their case for South Sudan peaceful State Separation if all Hands are working together with No iota of saboteur,to be planted by Northern Sudanese
As the Older South Sudanese leaders are aging, bankrupt and there should be proper institutional mechanism and world interest to replace these older Southern Sudanese leaders with moderate, serious, technocrats and southern Sudanese with no Northern Sudan link as to enable South Sudan achieve desired State development that is bereft of political confusion and theft of South Sudan Resources for self aggrandizement and unnecessary Third World Richness without enterprise or proof of livelihood.
UN should urgently organize Regional peace for South Sudan Buffer Zone with Kenya, Uganda, Congo D.R. and Ethiopia and AU as to provide some kind of framework for security provision, while UN should cater for the Buffer Zone Logistics with UN Mandate. France should avoid their kind of politics/manners which they usually play in Africa that led to wicked examples of Rwanda, Congo D.R. etc. that are characterized by various Crisis,War and Hunger, as their continuation of this Wickedness must stop as to avoid Dire Consequences from God and Man.
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