SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources – Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (Abdelaziz al-Hilu faction) signs peace talks roadmap

18/10/19: Multiple sources – Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (Abdelaziz al-Hilu faction) signs peace talks roadmap

• AP, by Noha Elhennawy

• Reuters, by Khalid Abdelaziz and Denis Dumo

• Radio Dabanga

• Sudan Tribune

 Sudan’s largest rebel group, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (Abdelaziz al-Hilu faction) has agreed to a roadmap to allow suspended peace talks to resume.

 Sudan’s government and the SPLM-N (Al-Hilu faction) agreed that the focus of the negotiations would be political issues first, followed by humanitarian concerns and then security arrangements.

 The SPLM-N cancelled talks after the Rapid Support Forces set up a checkpoint and detained 16 people in South Kordofan. RSF commander Himedti leads the government delegation in the peace talks.

 On the resumption of talks, Ammar Amoun, head of the SLPM-N negotiation delegation, told reporters that the government had taken “positive steps to correct earlier mistakes.”

 SPLM-N Al-Hilu spokesman El Jak Mahmoud deemed the agreement “a factual break-through”, given the movement’s previous experiences with the former regime headed by ousted President Omar al Bashir.