US Special Envoy to Sudan meets rebel leaders

The Leadership Council of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) has renewed its rejection of a partial solution for the wars raging in Darfur, South Kordofan, and Blue Nile. The Council confirmed its stance during a meeting with US Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan, Ambassador Donald Booth, and clarified SRF’s position and its vision about a comprehensive solution. SRF official spokesman, Abulgasim Imam El Haj, informed Radio Dabanga that the meeting dealt with the overall political, security, and humanitarian situation. The SRF leadership stressed that sustainable peace and stability can only be achieved by a comprehensive political solution. They highlighted that all partial agreements have failed in the past. El Haj added that the meeting also discussed the failure of Unamid to protect civilians and its negative role in improving the humanitarian situation. He pointed out that the meeting underwrote that the wars between the Sudanese regime and the regions can only be stopped by a peace process during which war criminals and perpetrators of crimes against humanity will be brought to justice. The SRF is a coalition between rebel groups of Darfur, and South Kordofan and Blue Nile. From Darfur: the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), the Sudan Liberation Movement Abdel Wahid (SLM-AW) and the Sudan Liberation Movement – Minni Minawi (SLM-MM); from South Kordofan and Blue Nile states: Sudan People’s Liberation Movement- North (SPLM-N). The Sudanese government recently stated that Washington is not qualified to discuss relations between Khartoum and Juba, and warned the Ambassador Donald Booth that he should stay away from Sudan-South Sudan domestic issues. File photo: US President Barack Obama meets with Ambassador Donald Booth, Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, in the Oval Office, on 28 August 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Related: New US envoy ‘to focus on issues between Sudans’ (15 September 2013)