Darfur breakaway faction reunites with the rebel SLM-Nur
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May 10, 2011 (KHARTOUM) — A breakaway rebel faction announced
yesterday it has reintegrated the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) led
by Abdel Wahid Al-Nur and called on the other dissident groups to
reunite under one banner.
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A Sudanese rebel stands guard during the visit of U.N. envoy to Darfur
Jan Eliasson to the town of Korma in northwest El Fashir December 9,
2007. (Reuters)
The Sudan Liberation Movement –Juba Unity reunited with the SLM under
the leadership of its founder Abdel Wahid Al-Nur, said Al-Hadi Idriss
Yahya, the political secretary of Juba faction. He further said they
took this decision as result of a long dialogue engaged since June
2010.
The SLM-Juba Unity is established in November 2007 following an
initiative by South Sudan ruling party, SPLM, to reunite the rebel
factions before to engage direct talks with the central government. At
the time the group was formed from six SLM factions besides JEM- Field
revolutionary Command, the Democratic Popular Front and Sudanese
Revolutionary Front.
The group was approached to join the Doha process and after a long
vacillation, its leader Ahmed Abdel Shafi announced on 27 April 2010
his merger with the Liberation and Equality Movement (LJM) led by
El-Tijani El-Sissi, but the rest of the group disapproved the move.
Al-Hadi said they discussed the solution of Darfur cause and agreed
that the eight year conflict is "a national problem can only be
resolved in a national framework" by overthrowing the National
Congress Party regime in order to pave the way towards complete regime
change in Sudan and build a state of citizenship.
"We also emphasized that partial solutions and bilateral agreements
obstruct the solution of the conflict more than resolve it. In this
respect, we renewed (our) fundamental stance rejecting the Doha
process under its current form, and the Movement is not concerned by
its outcome," he stressed.
The SLM-AW is not part of the ongoing process in Doha where the
Liberation and Equality Movement (LJM) of El-Sissi and the Justice and
Equality Movement (JEM) are negotiating with the Sudanese government
for a political solution to the conflict.
The SLM leader met last year with the Qatari state minister for
foreign affairs in Paris an pledged to join the peace process however,
he stressed the need to stop violence on civilians in Darfur and also
he said the group should discuss on the participation in the Doha
talks and take a decision in this regard.
Since he left Paris, and reorganized the group. The SLM supporters
organized last April a series of protests inside the countries in
different Sudanese provinces besides Darfur a to overthrow Bashir’s
regime and appealing the Sudanese opposition political parties to join
them for a regime change.
SLM-AW political secretary Hafiz Hamouda told Sudan Tribune that the
Movement has effectively began discussions with different political
and military forces in the country in implementation of the new
political line announced by its leader Abdel Wahid Al-Nur.
He further said they are about to reach political agreement with some
political forces during the next few days.
Al-Hadi told Sudan Tribune separately that talks are taking place with
the different factions of the Sudan Liberation Movement to rebuild the
group as it was before November 2005, date of the first dissidence in
the movement by Minni Minnawi who signed a peace agreement with the
Sudanese government in May 2006 before to return rebel last year.
In Doha the mediation is planning to hold a general conference on
Darfur this month with the participation of the internally displaced
persons, civil society groups and tribal leaders. However talks
between Khartoum and JEM rebels are stalled over different issues
particularly the administrative status of Darfur and security
arrangements.
The Sudanese government, on the other side, intends to hold next July
a referendum on Darfur administrative make-up and a dialogue
conference with the participation of civil society and tribal leaders
to settle the conflict internally.
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