Darfur ex-rebels, Vice-President discuss peace accord

First Vice-President, Gen. Bakri Hassan Saleh, has received a delegation of the Justice and Equality Movement faction (JEM-Sudan) in the Presidential Palace in Khartoum on Monday. Saleh and the JEM-Sudan ex-rebels, led by Bakhit Abdallah Abdel Karim (known as Dabajo) discussed the challenges facing the implementation of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD). JEM-Sudan signed the DDPD in April 2013. The ex-combatants have had to wait until August this year, before the implementation of the security arrangements was realised, and the procedure of their integration into the Sudan Armed Forces started. The JEM-Sudan delegation discussed with the first vice-president the DDPD power-sharing protocol as well. El Sadeg Yousef Zakaria, the spokesman for JEM-Sudan, informed Radio Dabanga after the meeting that “all obstacles threatening the realisation of the DDPD have been removed”. File photo: JEM-Sudan troops attending the integration ceremony in El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, on 24 August 2014 (Hamid Abdulsalam/Unamid) Related:Darfur ex-rebels integrate into Sudanese army (15 September 2014) Doha Document security arrangements launched in North Darfur (26 August 2014) JEM-Sudan deadline on security arrangements (30 June 2014)