SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - Darfur Talks: tense exchange between Minnawi, negotiating teams

16/1/2020: Sudan Tribune - Darfur Talks: tense exchange between Minnawi, negotiating teams -

Sudan Tribune reports that the heads of the negotiating teams of the government and Darfur armed groups dismissed statements by Minni Minnawi, a factional leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM), that the peace negotiations suffered a setback.

Minnawi tweeted that "the government delegation reversed its position on all the items that were agreed upon in the last period (...) they unashamedly said we have backpedaled on what we had agreed…Unfortunately, history repeats itself shamelessly"

Minnawi also slammed El-Hadi Idris, the leader of the Sudan Revolutionary Front, after the latter held a joint press conference with the government negotiation team. Minnawi tweeted “I do not know how and why [Idris] responds to my Tweets at a time when the government owns all private and public media…anew beginning of divide and rule policy".