SUDAN NEWS ALERT: AP – Sudan inks peace deal with rebel faction, paves way for more

24/12/2019: AP – Sudan inks peace deal with rebel faction, paves way for more, by Samy Magdy

AP report that Sudan’s transitional authorities and a rebel faction reached a peace deal, part of government efforts to end Sudan’s civil wars.

The deal, which “could pave the way for peace agreements with more factions of the SRF, as well as other rebel groups,” was signed between the Sudanese government and a faction of the Sudan Revolutionary Front known as the “Center Track.”

AP note that the latest round of negotiations included Sudan’s largest single rebel group, the Sudan Liberation Movement-North led by Abdel-Aziz al-Hilu, who threaten to call for self-determination in areas in controls in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan unless its demands for a secular state, disbanding of al-Bashir’s militias and revamping of the Sudanese military are met.

Another major rebel group, the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (led by Abdelwahid al-Nur), rejected the transitional government and has stayed out of the talks.