SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - El Mahdi: ‘Talks in current form will not achieve peace in Sudan’

26/12/2019: Radio Dabanga - El Mahdi: ‘Talks in current form will not achieve peace in Sudan’

Radio Dabanga reports that Sadiq El Mahdi, chairman of the National Umma Party, says that the handling of the Juba peace talks, in their current form, will not achieve piece,

El Mahdi said that the government negotiation team is moving without an agreed strategy, and that the negotiators on the side of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) rebel alliance do not have a unified vision.

“The mediation mechanism is divided and does not have the required weight, which would automatically drop all the sanctions directed against the deposed regime,” El Mahdi added.