SUDAN NEWS ALERT: AP – Sudan’s rebels want a role in transitional government

14/8/19: AP – Sudan’s rebels want a role in transitional government, by Samy Magdy

 AP report that the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) said it should be represented in the transitional government formed by the military and the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) pro-democracy movement.

 Speaking to AP in Cairo, where the SRF is negotiating with the FFC on changes to the constitutional declaration, Senior SRF official Yassir Arman said the transitional government should end the war in Darfur, and that the SRF should be integrated into a “professional” army that represents all Sudanese communities as part of an “agenda of peace.”

 Arman said: “you cannot build democracy or development, sustainable development, or go to a civil state unless you resolve issues of war and issues of the security arrangement.”

 Arman also called for Omar Al Bashir to be extradited to the Hague to be tried for war crimes by the ICC.