Sudan.. The tripartite mechanism announces the cessation of dialogue after the withdrawal of the military component

The Tripartite Facilitative Mechanism for Dialogue in Sudan announced the cessation of the dialogue it was sponsoring between the civil and military components, and attributed this to the decision of the Military Committee to withdraw from it.

The tripartite mechanism said - in a statement - that there would be no point in continuing the talks in their current form, without the army's participation in the upcoming meetings.

It added that it will continue to engage with all components in order to assess the best way forward in its efforts to facilitate a political solution to the current crisis.

For his part, "Al-Tijani Cisse", head of the National Movement Forces, said - in a press conference in Khartoum - "we received a letter today from the tripartite mechanism, during which it said that it canceled the dialogue, citing the reason for this being the exit of the military component from it."

The tripartite mechanism consists of the United Nations, the African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority for the Development of Central and Eastern Africa (IGAD).

On the eighth of last June, the direct dialogue process was launched in Khartoum under the auspices of the tripartite mechanism to end the political crisis, and after 4 days the mechanism announced the postponement of the second round of dialogue to a date to be determined later.

On Monday, the head of the Transitional Sovereign Council, the commander of the Sudanese army, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, announced in a televised speech that the military institution would not participate in the national dialogue under the auspices of the tripartite mechanism.

He explained that the army's withdrawal comes "to make room for the political and revolutionary forces and the national components to form a government of independent national competencies that will complete the requirements of the transitional period."

Since October 25, 2021, Sudan has witnessed popular protests calling for the return of democratic civilian rule, rejecting exceptional measures imposed by Al-Burhan, and rejecting them as a "military coup".