SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - Democratic Bloc welcomes Egyptian proposal for meeting with Sudan’s framework agreement signatories
Sudan Tribune report that an Egyptian proposal to hold a meeting between the signatories and non-signatories of the framework agreement was endorsed by Jibril Ibrahim - Sudan’s finance minister, leader of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the deputy head of the pro-coup Democratic Bloc faction of the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC-DB).
Ibrahim told Sudan Tribune that the Egyptian proposal is a valid alternative to the framework agreement. He criticised the framework agreement by saying that “it contains fundamental flaws and resulted from secret meetings that brought together two parties under international pressure.”
Ibrahim also objected to the powers the framework agreement grants to its signatories, warning that it would lead to a politicised judicial apparatus and that forming an internal security apparatus despite the reservations of the signatories about the General Intelligence Service would create a new security apparatus to recruit the “militias” of political parties.