SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - Egypt offers to host talks on Sudan’s political process

3/1/2023: Sudan Tribune - Egypt offers to host talks on Sudan’s political process

Sudan Tribune report that the Forces for Freedom and Change-Central Council (FFC-CC) declined Egypt’s offer to host talks on the transition in Sudan. The talks were to include factions of the pro-coup Democratic Bloc faction of the FFC (FFC-DB).

Sudan Tribune suggest that “Sudanese political forces blame Egypt for supporting military regimes in Sudan” and “showed its support for the military coup that removed the FFC government from power” led by former Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, who “Egypt believes…was more favourable to Ethiopia” with regards to Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam dispute where Cairo “sought to protect its shares of water” from the River Nile.

Sudan Tribune further note that only Egypt had diplomatic representatives during the launch of the FFC-DB which gathered the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), Sudan Liberation Movement of Minni Minnawi (SLM-MM), a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) faction led by Gaffar al-Mirghani, and other political groups.