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Sudan has signed a peace agreement with several rebel groups
The Provisional Government and 5 armed groups, including 4 from Darfur, signed the agreement in neighboring South Sudan, but some significant factions refused to join.
The administration wants to end the conflicts that began under rule in Shir, but it may have difficulty restoring the displaced and developing underdeveloped areas.
"The beginning of the road to peace"
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Monday, 31 August 2020, 19:15
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The interim government in Sudan and a coalition of rebel groups today (Monday) signed a peace agreement to end the country's long-running civil wars that began during the dictatorship of Umm al-Bashir.
However, several other significant organizations refused to join the peace agreement signed in the capital of South Sudan.
The organizations include four from Darfur County, where an estimated 300,000 people have been killed and some 2.5 million displaced since 2003, and one from the southern provinces also claiming deprivation.
Two major factions, one from Darfur and one from the south, have not signed the agreement, and the caretaker government will have difficulty paying for the return of millions of displaced people and the development promised in the agreement, given its empty coffers.
"Our main challenge now is to implement the peace agreement, and to find donors who will do so," Jibril Ibrahim, leader of Darfur's Justice and Equality Movement, said after signing the agreement in Juba, the capital of South Sudan.
Sudan, home to some 42 million people, has been in regional conflict for decades since the repressive and corrupt regime of al-Bashir, which was ousted last year in a military coup.
The crisis intensified after the oil-rich south gained independence in 2011.
South Sudan's independence has led to an escalation of the economic crisis, which in turn has spawned the demonstrations that led to the overthrow of al-Bashir after 30 years.
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Sudan's sovereign council leader al-Burhan swings agreement in Juba, today (Photo: Reuters)
The civilian and military leaders who have shared power since the revolution have said that ending internal conflicts is of paramount importance in order to establish democracy in a country that was until recently isolated in the international arena.
The agreement gives the rebels political representation and decentralizes the powers of the central government, a combination of security forces, economic rights and land and a chance to return DPs to their homes.
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamduk said "this is the beginning of the road to peace. Peace requires a strong and determined will."
Hamduk is present at the signing ceremony in South Sudan along with the heads of the Sovereignty Council, headed by 'Abd al-Fatah al-Burhan and his deputy, Muhammad Deklo.
Both are generals who led the coup last year.
South Sudanese President Slava Kir, who himself has faced a difficult civil war and whose government is struggling to fully implement the peace agreement, said the agreement was a "milestone" in achieving peace in Sudan.
According to one of his advisers, who helped mediate between the parties, he promised to "continue to side with the Sudanese in ensuring the implementation of the peace agreement."
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In addition to Darfur's Justice and Equality Movement, the agreement is signed by the Sudanese Liberation Army, which operates in Darfur, and the Sudan - North Liberation Movement, which operates in the Kurdophan and Blue Nile provinces in the south of the country.
However, two significant factions in the organizations did not sign the agreement.
A senior member of the Sudan-North People's Liberation Movement said more factions may join later.
"It will open the door for those who have not come," he said.
"This is a great opportunity to protect civilians."
Other organizations that have signed are rivulets more, "Ha Transitional Council" and the Coalition for Liberation Movement of Sudan. "
Abd Al-Aziz Al-Hilo, leader of one of the factions that signed a peace accord, wants to Sudan, whose laws are based on Islam, will be a secular state.
Minister Sudan spokesman Faisal Muhammad Salih said that at the national level, the rebels who signed the agreement would be given three seats in the governing council, five ministerial posts and a quarter of the 300 seats in the Provisional Legislative Council would be divided between them
, he said. The Minister of Information added that a new fund would be established to invest $ 750 million over a decade in the poorer districts in the south and west of the country.
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The conflict in Darfur began in 2003 after rebels revolted against the central government.
In response, regime forces adopted a scorched earth strategy, aided by Arab militias, and together they carried out extensive ethnic cleansing and acts of sexual violence.
Bashir, who came to power in a military coup in 1989, is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.
The Prime Minister of Sedwan recently said that Khartoum may agree to extradite Bashir.
Experts said the agreement is very significant, but said large gaps remained.
Jonas Horner, an expert on Sudan at the International Crisis Group Research Institute, described it as a "very significant step forward in Sudan's transition," but stressed that the agreement was far from complete and that significant obstacles remained.
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