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Rocky Road for Khartoum Peace Conference

The Juba Peace Agreement (JPA) conference held in Khartoum has been criticised by people attending a workshop in Cairo, Radio Dabanga reports.

The conference on the Juba Peace Agreement (JPA), organised by the AU-IGAD-UNITAMS Trilateral Mechanism in coordination with the signatories to the Framework Agreement, begain on January 31, 2023. But displaced community leaders in Darfur told Radio Dabanga that their invites were cancelled at the last minute, and some community leaders were not invited at all.

Displaced women leader Awatif Abdelrahman said that, at the request of the Centre for Peace Studies in Nyala, they nominated three women to represent the South Darfur displaced women, but the invitation was cancelled a day before the launch of the conference.  Yagoub Furi, head of the Darfur Displaced and Refugee Camps Coordination said the conference may fail due to not inviting the real stakeholders.

Radio Dabanga is also reporting that the Sudan People's Liberation Movement North faction (SPLM-N Agar) has announced that they will  boycott the conference.

On December 5, 2022, the Sudan military concluded a framework agreement with dozens of civilian leaders, in which the generals promised to relinquish much of their political power. The agreement, under discussion for months, is a major accomplishment but it faces long odds. It excludes former rebels and others from participating in the transitional government.

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Central Khartoum in 2017.

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