SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Reuters – Sudan signs peace deal with key rebel groups, some hold out

31/8/2020: Reuters – Sudan signs peace deal with key rebel groups, some hold out

 Reuters report that Sudan’s transitional authorities and the Sudan Revolutionary Front, a rebel alliance, signed a peace deal.

 The deal was signed by the Darfur-based Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and Minni Minawi’s Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), as well as Malik Agar, leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), from the South Kordofan and Blue Nile regions.

 However, the SPLM-N faction of Abdelaziz el-Hilu did not sign the deal, nor did the SLA faction of Abdelwahid el-Nur.

 Nationally, the deal stipulates that rebel signatories will get three seats on the ruling council, five ministries, and a quarter of the 300 seats on the transitional legislative council between them. Regionally, the rebels will get 40% of posts in their regional governments, which will receive 40% of locally raised revenues, and a new fund will pay $750 million a year for 10 years to impoverished southern and western regions.