Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok, accompanied by a high-ranking delegation, arrived in Juba today, Sunday, to attend the ceremony for the signing of the peace agreement on Monday between the Sudanese government and the armed movements.
The official Sudanese News Agency (SUNA) stated that representatives of the government and the Sudanese Revolutionary Front - which includes four armed movements - had initialed an agreement to end 17 years of civil war.
The agreement provides for the extension of the transitional period that has been set for 39 months, starting from the final signing of the peace agreement, in addition to adding three members of the transitional sovereignty council from the armed movements that signed the agreement.
It is expected that Hamdok, President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, and many foreign delegations will officially sign with the Sudanese Revolutionary Front.
This front includes the movements that fought in Darfur (west) and in the states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile in the south. The Darfur track is one of the five tracks that the peace negotiations in Juba focused on.
According to SUNA, representatives of various parties signed their initials in Juba on the eight protocols that make up the peace agreement.
The eight protocols are security, the issue of land and hawakeer (land ownership), transitional justice, compensation and reparation, the protocol for the development of the nomads and herders sector, the division of wealth, the power-sharing protocol, and the issue of displaced persons and refugees.
Peace negotiations began in November in Juba, a priority for the new Sudanese government after the fall of Omar al-Bashir in April 2019.