SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: al-Jareeda - Minnawi's wing of the FFC

3/10/2021: al-Jareeda - Minnawi's wing of the FFC, by Sabah Mohamed al-Hassan

After rebel leader Minni Minnawi announced a breakaway faction of the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition, Sabah Mohamed al-Hassan suggests that Minnawi’s move benefits the remnants of Omar al-Bashir’s ousted regime, alleging that they were the majority of attendants at the conference on Minnawi’s announcement, with the rest being “filled by children from religious schools”.

Al-Hassan wrote that Minnawi, “is accustomed to creating rifts and splinter groups wherever he went,” noting that he ceded from his own Sudan Liberation Movement to become an assistant to former president Omar al-Bashir, and also broke from various groups opposing the regime.

Thus, for al-Hassan, the remnants who hinge their hopes on Minnawi do so “because of his unprincipled, slippery personality and visible intention to destroy the FFC,” further noting the remnants were happy to hear the FFC breakaway group’s leader criticise the FFC’s movements against the former regime and its remnants.