SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Al-Monitor – US, Saudi Arabia broker talks to break Sudan's coup deadlock
Al-Monitor report that civilian-military dialogue jointly promoted by UNITAMS, the African Union and IGAD is being boycotted by the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC), resistance committees and Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA).
The FFC criticised the UN-AU-IGAD mechanism for being dominated by pro-military groups and Islamists from the orbit of Omar al-Bashir’s regime, which political science professor Khalid Mukhtar said was “a mistake that turned the process upside down and made it similar to al-Bashir’s national dialogues”, adding that the process has deviated from its objective.
Meanwhile, with the FFC entering talks with the military, resistance committee member Muzna Al-Haj said the FFC are “the weakest link of all revolutionary forces” and are “easy to bring into deals that will grant bringing them back into power”. SPA spokesperson Mohaned Elnour said: “the FFC [are only occasionally] with the revolutionary forces [and] don’t believe in people’s power”.