The Sudan Call coalition meets for the first time in Khartoum

A street in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan (illustration image). REUTERS / Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

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The coalition of political parties and armed movements called "The Appeal of Sudan", founded in exile under the former regime of Omar al-Bashir, met for the first time in the Sudanese capital on Sunday, further isolating the civil coalition sharing power with the military during the transition period.

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"The Call of Sudan" was founded in Ethiopia in 2014 as an alternative to the regime of Omar el-Bashir. Political parties of all stripes, important rebel movements swore to organize his fall and to be ready to govern in his place.

Six years later, the Bashir regime fell and, for the first time, the leaders of this coalition met in Khartoum, in the presence of some important figures from Sudanese political life.

The rebel leader Minni Minawi , on the initiative of this meeting, but also the former Prime Minister Sadiq Al-Mahdi of the Ummah party, and the leadership of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front were there: protagonists who, for several weeks, have all publicly distanced themselves from the Forces for Freedom and Change, the other civilian coalition that has shared power with the military since last summer, and of which they are nevertheless members.

This meeting comes at a time when negotiations between the government and rebel forces in Darfur, Kordofan and the Blue Nile are soon coming to an end. An agreement is in the process of being reached by May 9 to make room for them in power circles in Khartoum.

For a good connoisseur of the country, it is for the members of "The Call of Sudan" to affirm their importance in political life, faced with a government forced into compromise and a peace agreement which risks marginalizing them.

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