SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Voice of America – Sudan Holdout Group: Peace Deal Fails to Address Conflict’s Root Causes
VOA’s feature piece interviewed Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) leader Abdelwahid al-Nur, who called the Juba peace agreement is “nothing more than a plan to distribute wealth and government positions [which does not] address the underlying reasons for Sudan’s conflicts.”
Al-Nur said the agreement is “business as usual,” citing “47 [previous peace agreements since Omar al-Bashir came to power which were not implemented] because they did not address the root causes of the problem.”
According to al-Nur, people become rebels due to major issues preventing peace including: the lack of equality citizenship rights, “no distribution of wealth, no equal development, no equality between black and Arab and Muslim and Christian.”