SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - FFC’s El Sheikh: ‘Unresolved differences between parties challenge to Sudan peace’
Radio Dabanga reports that Ibrahim El Sheikh, member of the Peace Committee for the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), said that one of the biggest challenges facing Sudan’s peace negotiations are the differences among the components of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF).
Calling for a negotiating platform that is neutral and “without hidden agendas,” El Sheikh attribute the SRF disagreements to concerning the negotiation platform and the funding for the implementation of a peace agreement. He added that previous agreements failed as “they were bilateral, based on quotas, and did not address the roots of the crisis in Sudan, of unequal development, citing the “unfair distribution of power and wealth, and failing management of the diversity in the country”.
He also highlighted the rivalries between the countries acting as negotiation platforms – such as the UAE and Egypt’s rivalry with Qatar – as they led to pressure on negotiating parties.