SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - Communists quit Sudan’s FFC ruling alliance

8/11/2020: Sudan Tribune - Communists quit Sudan’s FFC ruling alliance

 Sudan Tribune report that the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) announced its withdrawal from the ruling Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), accusing FFC leaders of plotting against the revolution.

 SCP accused some FFC groups of concluding “secret and suspicious deals” inside and outside the country, adding that they are leading the "coalition towards a coup against the revolution and endorsing policies that contravene the agreed charters and declarations."

 The SCP had recently struggled to dissuade Hamdok’s government from implementing economic reforms including the removal of fuel subsidies, alongside rejecting the Juba peace agreement which it said empowered rebels “who are perceived as potential allies of the military component of the Sovereign Council.”

 On the other hand, the FFC suspects the SCP of working to dismantle the FFC in order to control the Sudanese Professional Association, with the Resistance Committees warning against such a strategy as “it would divide the civilians.”