Founder of SLM upbeat on rebel unification, calls to topple regime

The founder and chairman of the Sudan Liberation Movement, Abdel Wahid Mohammed Ahmed Al Nur, renewed his invitation to all the Sudanese and marginalized people to topple the regime. In an interview with Radio Dabanga, Abdul Wahid revealed that there were will soon be ‘a big surprise’ regarding the unification of the Liberation Movement which he said has achieved ninety percent of its aims. Abdel Wahid Al Nur has consistently taken the most hardline stance against negotiations since he last participated in direct talks in Abuja in 2006. He has refused to send a negotiating team to the Doha talks. Abdel Wahid said that the liberation movement will not be limited to his own faction but will go on to include all the people of Sudan. He also called on all the political powers in Sudan and Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile and the east, central and northern Sudan to unite and become allies and coordinate with the movement which he said is a national movement to topple the regime. Abdel Wahid directed a point of advice to the team of Malik Aggar, governor of Blue Nile state, to make a move, saying Blue Nile is ‘next on the list’ after Nuba Mountains, stating that the NCP is know for betrayal and Aggar has to be careful.

Replying to a question about the mediators’ invitation to him to come to Doha and sign the drafted peace document, Abdel Wahid told Radio Dabanga that the issue does not concern his movement and that they — as well as their people — have no interest in it. Abdel Wahid affirmed that they as a faction are interested in peace that the faction is making by providing security to all the Sudanese, including the people of Darfur and changing the regime in Khartoum to create a nation with equality among its citizens. Abdel Wahid stressed that this is the solution and that the solution for Sudan and Darfur does not come in parts, stating that following the previous agreements, peace did not come to Darfur. He questioned the whereabouts of those agreements now, stating that what was happening now will not be ‘greater than Abuja.’