Rhino: Agencies – Former Minister of Information in Hamdok’s civilian government, Faisal Mohamed Saleh, criticized on Tuesday the Sudanese army’s requirement for the RSF to leave citizens’ homes to agree to resume negotiations in the Jeddah platform, describing it as a wrong and hasty reading of what was previously agreed upon in the negotiating platform.
In press statements to Al Jazeera on Tuesday evening, Saleh said that this reading assumes that the RSF is completely defeated, and that it could hand over areas already under its control to its opponent, without a clear incentive.
The Minister of Information in the former civilian government emphasized that the move cannot take place without consensus, without the presence of forces that clearly delineate the areas of control of each party, with regional or international forces separating the two warring parties, and an agreed-upon monitoring mechanism to identify violations by each party.
‘This arbitrary reading of what was agreed upon in the Jeddah platform will not help reach a solution, and the army forces are also present in some residential neighborhoods, such as in the old Omdurman area,’ he said.
He added: ‘The agreement must be reinterpreted rationally, and the RSF cannot be asked to leave the homes of citizens without integrated measures, without demarcating the areas of control of each party away from civilians, and without these endeavors being backed by regional and international sponsorship.