SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - Hamdok, Sudanese communists resume discussions on reunification of change forces
Sudan Tribune report that Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok and the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) pursued dialogue on ways to reunite the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC).
The SCP withdrew from the FFC in November 2020 and called to bring down Hamdok’s government in April 2021, as it “did not want to bear the responsibility of the unpopular economic reforms.”
The SCP voiced their opposition to the Juba peace process as it excluded FFC forces at the expense of armed components. “The government did not develop a plan to address the roots of the problem”, said Siddiq Youssif, a leading SCP figure, "rather, it focused on reaching an agreement with the armed groups based on the power and wealth sharing”.
In meetings with Hamdok, the SCP stressed that a population census should precede the general elections amid the demographic changes that resulted from the war.