{"id":20114035,"date":"2025-02-18T14:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T13:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/?p=20114035"},"modified":"2025-02-18T14:54:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T13:54:18","slug":"sudan-ruler-repeats-rejection-of-hamdok-tagadom-faction-to-sign-charter-in-nairobi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudan-ruler-repeats-rejection-of-hamdok-tagadom-faction-to-sign-charter-in-nairobi","title":{"rendered":"Sudan ruler repeats rejection of Hamdok, Tagadom faction to sign charter in Nairobi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, commander-in-chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and de facto leader of Sudan\u2019s ruling junta yesterday denied that he has been communicating with the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) and stressed that \u201cthe Sudanese people will not accept that any government, Hamdok or anyone else, be imposed on them\u201d. Today, the Tagadom faction chaired by El Hadi Idris will reportedly sign a political charter with Sudanese political groups and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the Kenyan capital.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have no contact with any party except with the combatants [fighting the Rapid Support Forces],\u201d he stated in his address to an e-learning conference in Port Sudan yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe will not sit with them [the politicians] unless they return to the country and participate in the ongoing fighting,\u201d he said and repeated that \u201cWe do not listen to anyone\u2019s words, and we do not communicate with anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leaders of the mainstream Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC-Central Council) who joined the newly formed Sumoud alliance recently spoke in press statements about their continued communication with the army command to reach a peaceful way out of the ongoing war with the paramilitary RSF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FFC-CC was one of the driving powers behind the ousting of Omar Al Bashir in April 2019 and agreed with the military<\/a> in August that year to form a civilian-led government, led by PM Abdalla Hamdok until the military coup<\/a> of October 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sumoud (meaning resilience in Arabic) coalition was announced on February 11, a day after the Tagadom alliance*, set up by the FFC-CC and other progressive Sudanese groups in October 2023, split into two camps over the formation of a government in exile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe internal division has been brewing for months as the coalition struggled to reconcile differing views on how to counter the legitimacy of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)-led government in Port Sudan,\u201d ,\u201d Sudan War Monitor explained<\/a> on February 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cProponents of the government-in-exile proposal argued that a parallel civilian administration would provide a legitimate alternative to the junta, which has ruled Sudan since the 2021 coup. However, critics within Taqaddum [Tagadom, RD], including prominent and influential figures, warned that forming a rival government would fragment the opposition, undermine the coalition\u2019s neutrality, and complicate diplomatic efforts to end the war.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The newly formed Sumoud group chose Abdalla Hamdok as chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not wanted<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

El Burhan yesterday further repeated his rejection of \u201cexternal solutions\u201d, pointing to the suggestion made by \u201ccertain countries\u201d to have Hamdok return as prime minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn a message to the African Union, the Horn of Africa Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD),<\/a> and the United Nations,\u201d he said that \u201cthe Sudanese people will not accept that any government, Hamdok or anyone else, be imposed on them\u201d and added that \u201cwhoever wants to rule Sudan should return to the country and fight with the Sudanese\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sudanese-Sudanese dialogue meetings, called for by the African High-Level Mechanism<\/a> on Sudan, are scheduled to start in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, in the coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On February 8, El Burhan cautioned members of the dissolved National Congress Party (NCP), set up by the deposed Omar Al Bashir regime, as well as the Tagadom coalition, that they \u201cwill not return to power in Sudan<\/a>\u201d. The junta leader asserted that both groups \u201csupported those [the RSF] who kill the Sudanese.\u201d He also ruled out any peace negotiations between his government and the RSF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Humanitarian conference<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

El Burhan also scorned the High-Level Humanitarian Conference<\/a> on Sudan held in Addis Ababa on Friday at the initiative of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and sponsored by the African Union, IGAD, and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The junta leader said he considered the conference \u201can attempt to whitewash the positions of parties supporting the aggressors against the Sudanese people\u201d, pointing to the UAE’s military support to the RSF<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He praised the unnamed countries that he said abstained from participating in the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference was attended by the UN secretary-general of the United Nations, the chair of the African Union Commission, the Ethiopian prime minister and the Kenyan president. Abdalla Hamdok, chair of the Civil Democratic Alliance of Revolutionary Forces (Sumoud) also addressed the event that managed to raise $216 million for Sudanese displaced in Sudan and surrounding countries, with the UAE pledging $200 million, Ethiopia $15 million, and Gambia $1 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference was held on the sidelines of the 38th African Summit, where the issues of Sudan and Congo topped the agenda. At the conclusion of its work on Sunday, the summit called for a ceasefire in Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Government-in-exile<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, the opposing Tagadom faction, chaired by El Hadi <\/a>I<\/a>dris<\/a>, leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement-Transitional Council faction and head of<\/a> the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) rebel alliance,\u00a0reportedly will sign \u201cthe charter of the Sudanese government to be formed\u201d in the Kenyan capital<\/a> of Nairobi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well-informed sources told Radio Dabanga on Sunday that \u201cseveral delegations of political, civil and popular forces\u201d had already arrived in Nairobi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The faction of political forces and rebel movements, and the RSF supporting the group, have distributed invitations to journalists to participate in signing the political charter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El Hadi said in an interview with Al Jazeera this weekend that they will not agree to any agenda that will divide Sudan. He pointed out that discussions on the details of forming the government have not begun, indicating that this will happen after the signing of the political charter and the completion of the founding constitution. \u201cA number of countries and organisations have promised us to recognise the government that will be formed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A representative of the RSF leadership will sign the charter alongside a number of political forces and armed rebel movements. \u201cThe intended government will be announced inside Sudan after the charter is signed within Sudan. We saw that the charter should be signed abroad first to ensure international and regional presence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He explained that \u201cthe government to be formed is a government of peace and not a government of war. After forming the government, will set up a unified army to protect civilians\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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*Tagadom<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Civil Democratic Forces alliance, better known by its Arabic name Tagadom (meaning \u2018progress\u2019),\u00a0was founded<\/a>\u00a0in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa in October 2023, by members of the mainstream Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC-Central Council) and other Sudanese pro-democracy parties and groups. Former PM Abdalla Hamdok was elected chair. The Arab Socialist Ba\u2019ath Party and the Communist Party of Sudan\u00a0were not part<\/a>\u00a0of the alliance.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tagadom\u00a0aimed to build<\/a>\u00a0the \u201cbroadest democratic civil front possible\u201d against the war between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that erupted in April that year. In December, Tagadom invited the commanders of the warring parties to discuss its roadmap to peace with them. RSF Commander Mohamed \u2018Hemedti\u2019 Dagalo responded to the call and\u00a0signed the Addis Ababa Declaration<\/a>\u00a0with Tagadom on January 2.<\/em> The SAF did not respond, but instead accused the alliance of siding with its enemy. In early April, the Sudanese Committee for RSF War Crimes and Violations in Port Sudan\u00a0filed criminal charges<\/a>\u00a0against 17 Tagadom leaders.<\/em><\/p>\n