Sudan rebel heads meet Unionist Party leader
Leaders of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF, an alliance of the main rebel movements) on Friday met with the leader of the Khatmiyya sufi order and head of the mainstream Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Mohamed Osman El Mirghani, in London. The meeting can be described as a major breakthrough in the relations between the party and the allied rebels. An SRF delegation composed of El Tom Hajo, head of SRF Media Relations and DUP member, and Yasir Arman, SRF’s Foreign Relations Secretary, and Secretary-General of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North, discussed with El Mirghani the current political situation, and briefed him about the contents of the Paris Declaration. They also consulted him about the talks both signatories of the Paris Declaration, the National Umma Party (NUP) and the SRF, are currently having with Sudanese opposition forces and civil society organisations, Arman told Radio Dabanga on Sunday. Arman described the meeting with the DUP leader as “frank and heated”. “El Mirghani stressed that it is impossible to hold general elections, scheduled by the Sudanese government for April 2015, without a national consensus.” According to a statement issued by the DUP after the encounter, El Mirghani said that the DUP “will always work for the benefit and the safety of the Sudanese and democracy”. On 8 August, Malik Agar, chairman of the SRF and El Sadig El Mahdi, leader of the NUP, signed an accord in Paris, in which they agreed on unifying the Sudanese opposition forces in order to end the conflicts in the country, and work on a democratic transformation.News photo: Yasir Arman (L), Mohamed Osman El Mirghani (C), and El Tom Hajo after the meeting in London, 22 August (Radio Dabanga)Related:‘Paris Declaration signatories to meet with AUHIP chairman’: Sudan’s Umma Party (21 August 2014) Sudan’s Unionists welcome Paris Declaration (17 August 2014) Sudan’s Umma Party mobilising for ‘national uprising’ (14 August 2014) ‘Sudan’s regime should accept Paris Declaration’: El Mahdi (11 August 2014) Paris Declaration welcomed by Sudan opposition, rejected by regime (11 August 2014) Sudan opposition parties sign for toppling regime (8 August 2014)
Leaders of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF, an alliance of the main rebel movements) on Friday met with the leader of the Khatmiyya sufi order and head of the mainstream Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Mohamed Osman El Mirghani, in London.
The meeting can be described as a major breakthrough in the relations between the party and the allied rebels. An SRF delegation composed of El Tom Hajo, head of SRF Media Relations and DUP member, and Yasir Arman, SRF’s Foreign Relations Secretary, and Secretary-General of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North, discussed with El Mirghani the current political situation, and briefed him about the contents of the Paris Declaration.
They also consulted him about the talks both signatories of the Paris Declaration, the National Umma Party (NUP) and the SRF, are currently having with Sudanese opposition forces and civil society organisations, Arman told Radio Dabanga on Sunday.
Arman described the meeting with the DUP leader as “frank and heated”. “El Mirghani stressed that it is impossible to hold general elections, scheduled by the Sudanese government for April 2015, without a national consensus.”
According to a statement issued by the DUP after the encounter, El Mirghani said that the DUP “will always work for the benefit and the safety of the Sudanese and democracy”.
On 8 August, Malik Agar, chairman of the SRF and El Sadig El Mahdi, leader of the NUP, signed an accord in Paris, in which they agreed on unifying the Sudanese opposition forces in order to end the conflicts in the country, and work on a democratic transformation.
News photo: Yasir Arman (L), Mohamed Osman El Mirghani (C), and El Tom Hajo after the meeting in London, 22 August (Radio Dabanga)
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