SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources - Umma Party freezes its FFC’s activities, calls for conference on Sudan’s transition

23/4/2020: Multiple sources - Umma Party freezes its FFC’s activities, calls for conference on Sudan’s transition

• Sudan Tribune

• Radio Dabanga

 The National Umma Party (NUP) has suspended its activities on all levels for the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC). The NUP called for “a new social contract” to rebuild Sudan, calling on its FFC partners to meet within two weeks to discuss ways to achieve democratic transition’s goals.

 Without indicating the agenda of the proposed conference, the NUP noted “urgent” tasks including: the formation of national commissions as provided in the transitional constitution, and the need to schedule elections - starting locally, followed by state legislative assemblies and state governors elections, ending with the general elections at the end of the transitional period.

 The NUP also called for an immediate videoconference on economic issues, and criticised the  “lack of clear strategy in the Juba peace talks” which “pave the way for blackmail and exaggerated demands by the armed groups.”