Army and paramilitaries announce urgent negotiations to resolve the paralysis of the transition process in Sudan

15 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

The military leader of Sudan, Abdelfatá al Burhan, and the paramilitary leader of the Rapid Action Forces (FSR), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, alias ‘Hemedti’, will begin urgent negotiations in the next few hours to resolve the paralysis of the political transition agreement in Sudan, in the midst of a rise in tensions in recent hours.

In a statement issued early this morning, and after a similar offer made on Friday by ‘Hemedti’, General Al Burhan has declared that he is “prepared to take any measure that resolves the existing problem between the RSF and the Sudanese Army” on the discrepancies between the military and the paramilitary force when it comes to establishing a process of integration into a new unified army, the great point of contention that has stopped the process.

The mediation of the last few hours, reports Al Jazeera, has been left in the hands of a tripartite committee made up of the former insurgent leaders who signed the Juba peace agreement: the leader of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (split of the Movement for the Liberation of the People of Sudan – N), Malik Agar; the leader of the Movement for Justice and Equality, Jibril Ibrahim, and the head of the Movement for the Liberation of Sudan, Minni Minawi.

In a statement published this morning, the tripartite has assured that Al Burhan is willing to take any necessary step to “resolve the problem between the armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces and restore normality.” “The leaders are aware that the country is heading towards a civil war where the winner is, inevitably, another loser,” they have warned.

Meanwhile, the city of Meroue, in the north of the country, has woken up for the second day in an atmosphere of tense calm as the RSF maintain the positions they assumed on Thursday around the military base in the town, despite warnings of the Army to withdraw from the area, in a display that revealed the roughness between Al Burhan and Hemedti that both leaders want to iron out with these negotiations.