Commander of the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, Major General Al Noor Ahmed Adam Al-Kubba, confirmed that the country needs “a national consensus to achieve security.”
He also urged during the annual iftar in the city of El Fasher “to unite word and purpose and give priority to the interests of the nation over narrow personal interests.”
He continued, “The leadership of the Rapid Support Forces is committed to ‘defending and supporting the goals of the December Revolution’ in all parts of the country.”
Reason for differences
For its part, a spokesman for the Forces for Freedom and Change, in an interview with a local newspaper today, Sunday, denied the forces’ responsibility for disagreements between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, preventing the signing of a final political agreement. agreement in the country.
The head of the National Alliance Party, Kamal Ismail, said the disagreement is over the time period needed for the transition process, as the army requires it to last two years while the Rapid Support Forces adhere to ten years, in addition to the Rapid Support Forces’ requirement to reform first. in a military establishment before being integrated into it.
The signing of a final political agreement, scheduled for April 6, has been delayed a second time due to the military signatories’ failure to complete joint negotiations on security and defense reform procedures, the Force said in a statement. for freedom and change.
The military will step down
While the head of the Sudanese National Umma Party, Fadlallah Burmah Nasir, said in a statement today that the political process is nearing completion and the military will be out of power.
“The country is suffering and needs reconciliation,” he added.
It is noteworthy that the final political agreement, the most important of which was agreed on December 5 last year (under the so-called framework agreement) between the military and civilian parts, was hampered by disagreements between the army, led by Abdel Fattah al-Buran, and the Rapid Support Forces, led by with Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, as well as the issue of the merger of the latter with the armed forces and the conditions for this merger.
