SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources - Al Burhan says military is ready to negotiate with opposition

19/6/19: Multiple sources - Al Burhan says military is ready to negotiate with opposition

• Reuters, by Khalid Abdelaziz

• AP, by Hussein Malla and Samy Magdy

The head of Sudan’s ruling military council, Abdulfattah Al Burhan, said the military was ready to meet the Declaration of Freedom and Change (DFC) opposition alliance to negotiate the Sudan’s transition towards democracy, after talks collapsed following the deadly dispersal of a protest sit-in on June 3.

 Al Burhan said “we do not deny [the DFC] role in the uprising or in the popular revolution, their leadership of the masses.”

 He added that the alliance should return to talks without preconditions, and that the solution “solution must be satisfactory for all the Sudanese people…we will not accept any solution that excludes any faction of the Sudanese people.”