SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - FFC leaders reject al-Burhan claims over power monopoly

3/10/2021: Sudan Tribune - FFC leaders reject al-Burhan claims over power monopoly

Sudan Tribune report Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) leaders Sovereign Council chair Abdelfattah al-Burhan’s allegations that the FFC monopolises power via four groups that control the Cabinet and impose their partisan agenda.

The FFC control 18 out of 26 ministries, the armed groups have six and the military have two.

Ibrahim al-Sheikh, a leading FFC member and Minister of Industry said al-Burhan alone controls the security services and economic military companies, including “10 billion-dollar companies…around the world that manage slaughterhouses and export meat”.

Abbas Madani, an FFC member and former minister, spoke about a planned coup by the military and allies. “[al-Burhan and his deputy Himedti] are circumventing the Constitutional Document…they do not want to reform the military and security sector and establish a unified army," Madani stressed, adding that civilians should focus on achieving democratic reforms rather than being distracted by internal disputes.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - New coalition says Sudan’s FFC monopolizes power

3/10/2021: Sudan Tribune - New coalition says Sudan’s FFC monopolizes power

Sudan Tribune report that 16 political and armed groups signed a new charter entitled "The National Consensus Charter for the Unity of the Forces of Freedom and Change" and blamed some of its components for monopolising power.

The new alliance gathers, among others, the Sudan Liberation Movement led by Darfur governor Minni Minnawi and Justice and Equality Movement of finance minister Gibril Ibrahim.

In their speeches, Minnawi and Ibrahim denounced the monopoly of power by four components of the FFC saying they have excluded the other groups that participated with them in the struggle against the former regime.

Minnawi called to review all the appointments that took place after the collapse of the former regime. While Ibrahim, in his speech, insisted on the need to review the Empowerment Removal Committee adding that "civil servants should not be removed for political affiliation".

SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: al-Jareeda - Minnawi's wing of the FFC

3/10/2021: al-Jareeda - Minnawi's wing of the FFC, by Sabah Mohamed al-Hassan

After rebel leader Minni Minnawi announced a breakaway faction of the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition, Sabah Mohamed al-Hassan suggests that Minnawi’s move benefits the remnants of Omar al-Bashir’s ousted regime, alleging that they were the majority of attendants at the conference on Minnawi’s announcement, with the rest being “filled by children from religious schools”.

Al-Hassan wrote that Minnawi, “is accustomed to creating rifts and splinter groups wherever he went,” noting that he ceded from his own Sudan Liberation Movement to become an assistant to former president Omar al-Bashir, and also broke from various groups opposing the regime.

Thus, for al-Hassan, the remnants who hinge their hopes on Minnawi do so “because of his unprincipled, slippery personality and visible intention to destroy the FFC,” further noting the remnants were happy to hear the FFC breakaway group’s leader criticise the FFC’s movements against the former regime and its remnants.

SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Rebel forum calls for unity, cohesion, and an end to racism in Sudan

3/10/19: Radio Dabanga - Rebel forum calls for unity, cohesion, and an end to racism in Sudan

 Radio Dabanga reports on the Cairo forum organised by the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) and the Sudan Call coalition of rebels, opposition parties and civil society organisations.

 Minni Minawi, leader of the SRF’s Sudan Liberation Movement faction, and Yasir Arman, deputy head of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North faction, both stressed the need to draw lessons from the experience of the secession of South Sudan, calling for the end “hatred and systematic racism.”

 Dr Jibril Ibrahim, head of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), called for “more cohesion and efforts and development of the SRF and the Sudan Call to a historic bloc to bring about the required change”.

 Omar El Degeir, chairman of the Sudanese Congress Party (SCP), called for putting the issues of displaced persons and refugees at the top of the political agenda, which he considered “the biggest humanitarian tragedy in Sudan”

SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Interview with Sudan Liberation Movement leader El Nur: Paris meeting with Hamdok ‘friendly and frank’

3/10/19: Radio Dabanga - Interview with Sudan Liberation Movement leader El Nur: Paris meeting with Hamdok ‘friendly and frank’

 Radio Dabanga interviewed Abdelwahid El Nur, head of the mainstream Sudan Liberation Movement faction (SLM-AW), following his meeting with Prime Minister Hamdok at the French foreign ministry.

 El Nur said that he met Hamdok in a personal rather than official capacity: “because we do not recognise the new government or its Sovereign Council, which represents the Al Bashir security infrastructure that committed genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in Darfur, the Two Areas, and the rest of Sudan.”

Nonetheless, he insisted that the SLM-AW has no problem with Hamdok nor many of those appointed in government.