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”