JEM-Sudan resumes Darfur peace protocol

28/01/2014 17:28

The Justice and Equality Movement-Sudan (JEM-Sudan) will resume the implementation of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD). JEM-Sudan (also known as JEM-Bashar, referring to its late leader, Mohamed Bashar) last Thursday froze the implementation of the DDPD protocol signed on 6 April 2013 with the Sudanese government. The former rebel movement blamed the Chairman of the Office for the Follow-up of Peace in Darfur, Dr Amin Hassan Omar, for the slowness of the DDPD implementation. But the latter said that JEM-Sudan demanded issues not included in the protocol. After a meeting with President Omar Al Bashir on Sunday, JEM-Sudan’s vice-president El Tom Suleiman said they will resume implementation of the agreement on Monday. “The meeting between President Al Bashir and JEM-Sudan leader, Bakhit Abdallah Abdel Karim (known as Dabjo), resolved all the outstanding issues hampering the implementation of the DDPD,” Suleiman explained. Dabjo will soon travel to Darfur to continue the implementation of the security arrangements agreement, Abdel Karim added. JEM-Sudan demands full implementation of the power sharing agreement that stipulates the movement’s representation at the Sudanese presidency, the federal government, the Darfur Regional Authority, and the governments of the five Darfur states. The JEM-Sudan faction, under the command of Mohamed Bashar, broke away from the mainstream JEM in 2012. The movement declared a cessation of hostilities in October 2012, and a ceasefire with the Sudan government on 10 February 2013. Agreement on a supplementary protocol to the DDPD was reached in March 2013, and signed on 6 April in Doha. Dabjo became chairman of JEM-Sudan after the death of Mohamed Bashar and other senior leaders in a violent clash with mainstream JEM forces in North Darfur, near the Sudan-Chad border, in May 2013. File photo: Unamid head Mohamed Ibn Chambas greets Mohamed Bashar in Doha, 6 April 2013 (Albert Gonzalez Farran/Unamid)Related: Sudanese Ministers welcome JEM-Bashar delegation to Khartoum (13 November 2014)

The Justice and Equality Movement-Sudan (JEM-Sudan) will resume the implementation of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD).

JEM-Sudan (also known as JEM-Bashar, referring to its late leader, Mohamed Bashar) last Thursday froze the implementation of the DDPD protocol signed on 6 April 2013 with the Sudanese government. The former rebel movement blamed the Chairman of the Office for the Follow-up of Peace in Darfur, Dr Amin Hassan Omar, for the slowness of the DDPD implementation. But the latter said that JEM-Sudan demanded issues not included in the protocol.

After a meeting with President Omar Al Bashir on Sunday, JEM-Sudan’s vice-president El Tom Suleiman said they will resume implementation of the agreement on Monday.

“The meeting between President Al Bashir and JEM-Sudan leader, Bakhit Abdallah Abdel Karim (known as Dabjo), resolved all the outstanding issues hampering the implementation of the DDPD,” Suleiman explained. Dabjo will soon travel to Darfur to continue the implementation of the security arrangements agreement, Abdel Karim added.

JEM-Sudan demands full implementation of the power sharing agreement that stipulates the movement’s representation at the Sudanese presidency, the federal government, the Darfur Regional Authority, and the governments of the five Darfur states.

The JEM-Sudan faction, under the command of Mohamed Bashar, broke away from the mainstream JEM in 2012. The movement declared a cessation of hostilities in October 2012, and a ceasefire with the Sudan government on 10 February 2013. Agreement on a supplementary protocol to the DDPD was reached in March 2013, and signed on 6 April in Doha.

Dabjo became chairman of JEM-Sudan after the death of Mohamed Bashar and other senior leaders in a violent clash with mainstream JEM forces in North Darfur, near the Sudan-Chad border, in May 2013.

File photo: Unamid head Mohamed Ibn Chambas greets Mohamed Bashar in Doha, 6 April 2013 (Albert Gonzalez Farran/Unamid)

Related: Sudanese Ministers welcome JEM-Bashar delegation to Khartoum (13 November 2014)