Bashir forms higher body to follow-up peace in Darfur
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May 2, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese president Omer al-Bashir has formed
the High Follow-Up Committee for Peace in Darfur (HFCPD) to oversee
the implementation of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD)
after criticisms of the government’s slowness to release funds
necessary to enforce the deal.
Tijani el-Sissi head of Darfur Regional Authority (DRA) on Monday met
in Doha with the head of international follow-up committee of the DDPD
Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Mahmoud to discuss ways to ensure funds needed
to launch the implementation of the peace agreement.
Sudanese government is facing economic difficulties after the
independence of South Sudan but also dedicating all its resources to
fight rebel groups active in South Kordofan. Since last April Khartoum
also mobilizes efforts to confront South Sudan after a brief
occupation of Heglig.
Last week, Sissi briefed the Sudanese parliament that the finance
ministry failed to secure 200 million dollars the government is
committed to allocate for the implementation of economic projects and
to repatriate IDPs and refugees as well as to hold different
initiatives agreed between the parties.
President Bashir in a presidential decree issued on Wednesday
appointed himself as chairman of the HFCPD which is tasked with the
implementation and the follow up of the DDPD and to coordinate the
actions of the different authorities at the national and regional
levels.
Bashir also appointed First Vice-President Ali Osman Taha and DRA
Chairman as two deputies to oversee the activities of the 20-member
committee.
He also reformed the office of Darfur peace follow-up headed by state
minister at the presidency Amin Hassan Omer to include representatives
of finance, defence, and foreign affairs ministries among other.
The office is charged with preparation of plans and propositions to
the HFCPD but also has to follow up the implementation of presidential
decisions. On the other hand it is also tasked with contacts with
rebel groups willing to join the peace process.
Amin Hassan Omer was Sudanese government top negotiator in the Doha
peace process.
Darfur regional authority was planning to hold a dialogue conference
and other activities with the displaced, refugees in Chad and other
people affected by the conflict in western Sudan which started in
2003.
The DDPD was signed in Doha by the government and the former rebel
Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) of Tijani al-Sissi on 14 July
after more than two years of talks. The rebel Justice and Equality
Movement (JEM) was part of the process but rejected the deal.
Since JEM, and two main factions of the Sudan Liberation Movement
(SLM) who were not part of the Doha process joined the Sudan people’s
Liberation Movement – North which fights Khartoum in South Kordofan
since June 2011.
The four rebel groups formed an alliance in November 2011, Sudan
Revolutionary Front, aiming to topple Khartoum based regime.
UN reports from Darfur signal the decrease of violence against
civilians and fighting between the government and rebels groups who
moved their troops to South Kordofan where they fight besides the
SPLM-N.
However, the IDPs complain from the lack of humanitarian assistance as
the government encourages international donors to invest in
development projects stressing the displaced should now quit their
camps.
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