Sudan: Government, armed groups set to sign final peace deal on Oct. 2

Last updated on September 11th, 2021 at 08:25 am

The last signing of a peace agreement between Sudan’s government and rise up agencies is set for October two in the South Sudanese capital Juba, the talks’ chief mediator announced Sunday.  

“The 2d of October is the date for the closing signing of the peace settlement between the authorities and the ‘parties to the peace process,'” Tut Gatluak, head of the mediation group and South Sudan’s presidential adviser on security affairs, wrote on Twitter.  

Sudanese authorities and leaders from the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), a coalition of rebel groups, initialed a ancient peace agreement on August 31 in Juba aimed at ending almost two a long time of hostilities that has killed lots of hundreds of people, specifically in western Darfur.  

Established in 2011, the SRF brings collectively rebels from the war-ravaged western Darfur region, as well as the southern states of Blue Nile and South Kordofan.

The deal covers key troubles round security, land ownership, transitional justice, strength sharing and the return of humans who fled their homes due to the fact of fighting.

It additionally provides for the dismantling of rebellion forces and the integration of their opponents into the countrywide army.   Fighting in Darfur by myself left round 300,000 people lifeless after rebels took up arms in 2003.

Conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile erupted in 2011 as South Sudan seceded from Sudan, resuming a war that had raged from 1983 to 2005. 

Since October 2019, South Sudan has been mediating between the Sudanese government and the armed businesses from Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile regions. 

(CGTN)