To a final stage of consultations, the crisis train in Sudan has reached, looking for an end to it, which had intensified since the President of the Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, announced exceptional measures that its opponents considered a coup against democracy.
Khartoum is witnessing, under the auspices of the United Nations, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the Quartet consisting of the United States, Britain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, the final stage of the political process aimed at ending the Sudanese crisis.
This stage includes consultations between the civilians and the military who signed the political framework agreement, and will focus for 4 days on 5 issues that are looking for road maps to solve them, the most important of which is the dismantling of what remains of the regime of former President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, transitional justice, and reform of the security and military systems.
Smooth process
Regarding this political step in Sudan, the leader of the Freedom and Change Movement - the Central Council Group, Muhammad Abdel-Hakam - in his interview with the program "Beyond the News" (8/1/2023) - saw that the locomotive of the political process is proceeding smoothly and has reached one of the last stations to reach a solution. Final crisis in Sudan.
He explained that the parties to the crisis are represented by the revolutionary side that resisted the coup and confronted it in order to complete the course of the revolution and the civil democratic transition, stressing that the forces in Sudan that took the initiative to launch this political process under the auspices of the United Nations are fully aware of the need for deep discussions on basic issues that concern Sudan and its allies.
On the other hand, the leader of the Freedom and Change-Democratic Bloc, Mustafa Tambour, considered that the political process has not yet begun, and what is happening now is just "desperate" attempts by the Central Council to mislead the Sudanese public opinion that it is leading a comprehensive process that includes all Sudanese parties.
For his part, a former professor at the Higher Academy for Security and Strategic Studies, Major General Moatasem Al-Hassan, expected that the five issues would not be discussed, because they are floating, according to his description, considering that the most prominent issues fall within the legal and judicial field, and therefore it will be difficult for them to resolve them easily, and he saw that these plans It will not work in the absence of the basic elements that can manage the dialogue.
The biggest bet
He also described these consultations as pertaining to a specific party only and not to others, considering that the Central Council is trying to monopolize power over others, and as for the military council, it supports the civil power and handing it over to whomever the Sudanese people elect.
It is noteworthy that the biggest bet of the path supported by the United Nations, the Quartet and the IGAD group is to win over civil forces that reject it and see it as skipping over the requirements necessary for a real democratic transition.
The Freedom and Change Group, the Democratic Bloc, said it had stopped indirect meetings with the Freedom and Change Group, the Central Council.
Mubarak Ardol, the official spokesman for the Democratic Bloc, said that the framework agreement in its current form is rejected, welcoming all international efforts seeking to find solutions.