Written by: Aladdin Babiker
Surprisingly, the Sudanese Alliance Movement, headed by General (Khamis Abdullah Abkar), the current governor of West Darfur, appeared on the scene. The movement was not known before in the arena of military or political battle.
The (Sudanese Alliance) did not fight any battle, neither military nor even verbal; it does not have any struggle biography because it was founded after the fall of the rescue enemy.
(The Alliance) is a compilation of movements, most of which are names and signs of expatriates outside Sudan that do not exist on the ground; It has no masses, no vision, no fighters, and they have no influence on the ground; Mostly their groups are described as a one-man movement or two-man movement at best.
(alliance) stuffed with people and objects; They are inconsistent with each other; the common denominator is the difference.
The Sudanese Alliance was established in October 2019 after the fall of the ousted regime (Omar al-Bashir) in the Ethiopian capital (Addis Ababa) at the Sidra Hotel. The group of five movements or a little more chose the name (Sudanese Alliance for Change).
The movements that make up the coalition in its first version are: the new Sudanese Justice and Equality Movement, led by Dr. (Mansur Arbab Younes); JEM Democratic Command Leader (Idris Azraq); The Reform and Development Movement, the leadership of the leader (Sadiq Shaibu); And the Revolutionary Forces Front, led by Professor (Hafez Ibrahim Abd al-Nabi), and the Kordofan Gathering for Development (KAD), led by the leader (Ali Shehto).
Movements were gathered in (Addis Ababa) from several countries, including (America, Uganda, Germany, Chad, Britain, Sweden, South Africa) that ensured rapid support with all costs of travel, accommodation and subsistence.
The Aley Movements chose Dr. (Mansour Arbab Younes) as the head of the coalition, in preparation for entering into negotiations with the transitional government, accompanied by the Revolutionary Front and the movement of Professor (Al-Taher Hajar), which recently joined the Revolutionary Front.
The transitional government of Sudan, the Revolutionary Front, and the (Taher Hajar) movement signed the Juba Declaration for Confidence-Building Measures and Preparation for Negotiations on September 11, 2019. The declaration included the inclusion of any party in the negotiations with the consent of the two parties. the transitional government and the Revolutionary Front in addition to the movement (Al-Taher Hajar); And he specified other parties entitled to negotiate in accordance with the declaration, which are the People’s Movement in the North, the leadership of the leader (Abdul Aziz Al-Hilu), the Sudan Liberation Movement, the leadership of the leader (Abdul Wahid Muhammad Nour), and Qafl Ali (Kada).
According to the Juba Declaration, the parties’ entry into negotiations was restricted to the agreement of the two parties, the government and the movements; Therefore, the Sudanese Justice and Equality Movement, the wing of Dr. (Gabriel Ibrahim), objected to the Justice and Equality Movement, the wing of Dr. (Mansur Arbab), with the approval of the rest of the bodies due to previous differences.
Because of the position of the (Jibril) movement, Mansour and his movement were excluded from the negotiation process and from the presidency of the coalition as well.
During the negotiations, there was a violent attack on the negotiating groups with the transitional government, and they were accused of being one social group and from one state, and that the negotiators do not represent Darfur, but rather their entity and state, and the hashtag was active at the time (Sons of North Darfur).
This pressure on the ambassador affected the decision-makers on both sides, the government and the movements. They agreed to add another component from another state as a solution to the problem and dispel the accusation.
This is the truth, naked and without frills, although it is a scandalous fact that some arrogant people who are accustomed to falsifying the reality and presenting a nationalist discourse that contradicts the reality of the situation may deny.
The aforementioned circumstances are what brought General (Khamis) to the helm of the Sudanese coalition, and he was accepted by the parties as a non-controversial figure, a fighter and an old fighter in the ranks of the liberation movement before it was divided into entities; And (Mansour) was removed with a slight change in the name to become (the Sudanese Alliance), and the word change was removed from it, and (Khamis) became its president. Completion and many bodies of the component added to the negotiation, and (Hemedti) ensured the hosting of a civil delegation that came to Juba, headed by a professor and director of a well-known Sudanese university, accompanied by the highest hierarchy of the civil administration, along with the membership of intellectuals and civil administration; The aim of the delegation’s arrival to Juba is to unite the people of the entity in one body, to enter into negotiations unified; And the delegation succeeded in its mission and joined with them (Hamidti), another entity with which it expanded (Al-Ma’un) and entered (Hamsa); so that the movements that signed and did not negotiate became: The Sudan Liberation Army Movement, led by (General Khamis Abdullah Abkar); the Sudanese Revolutionary Council, led by the leader (Bahr Al-Din Adam). dignity); The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, Darfur, the leadership of the leader (Abdul Khaleq Dodin); Sudan People’s Liberation Movement Abu Matariq Brigade Command Lieutenant General (Said Yusuf Mahel); The Sudanese National Democratic Movement, the leadership of the leader (Mohamed Haroun Mohamed); The Revolutionary Forces Front, the leadership of the leader (Hafiz Ibrahim Abd al-Nabi); The Reform and Development Movement, the leadership of the leader (Sadiq Shaybo); Kordofan Gathering for Development (KAD) led by the leader (Ali Shehto); the Revolutionary Forces Front (Musa Hassan Kulis); the new Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) led by the leader (Adam Kassala); the Popular Forces Alliance led by the leader (Muhammad Abdo Shaheen); The Greater Kordofan Alliance Party, the virtuous leader (Mahmoud Abu Bakr); these are the groups that formed the Sudanese Alliance in its second edition, headed by General (Khamis).
With the exception of the Popular Movement, the Abu Matariq Brigade, commanded by Lieutenant General (Saeed Youssef Mahel), there is no component that has forces; All of them established military fields and wings after signing the agreement and within the cities with false promises to grant the recruits military ranks and tigers; Soldiers (cute) did not see a battle, not emptiness; some of them have former struggle comrades who were gathered, including General (Al-Khamis), but they unanimously do not have regular membership or a fan base, as evidenced by the fact that General (Khamis) all those who sought help from outside the state are professionals.
And when the transitional government gave them a million dollars to reconcile the situation, all the movements of one man showed signs of wealth, and millions rolled in after that.
It is certain that the Sudanese coalition is an idea and funding followed by (Rapid Support), but the head of the coalition broke the stick of obedience and became independent; At the same time, most of the components still owe allegiance to the ruler of grace, Sayyid (the shark and the perch), and consider the general as their enemy.
The movements, at the beginning of their formation, emerged with a project and ideas supported by everyone. Among the projects is the broad Tahrir project; It was committed to ending the marginalization and injustice to which the conflict areas were subjected, but soon the projects retreated and grew into opportunistic and clan projects, and then to family projects.
Despite the fact that the signatories to the (Juba) agreement hail from the state of North Darfur, they failed to present a national proposal that addresses this shortcoming on the theoretical and practical levels. The gains were achieved through a national subtraction, but practice exposed their nakedness. The national discourse retreated to my regions, then to my tribe, and then to my family inside the house, because the fall must be to the bottom.
Those who attack the tribes claiming that they have captured the gains are an inaccurate attack. It is true that the gains have become familial and linked to direct family relations. The tribes have no connection with practices.
In general, the agreement achieved gains for the conflict areas, and it has some shortcomings. Correction can be done by raising peace as a national issue in a peace conference. But if the movements believe that the agreement belongs to them, then they can go with it wherever they want, and it remains for the Sudanese to hold a peace conference in order to do justice to the conflict areas that have been subjected to historical injustice and to address the issue of unbalanced development caused by successive governments since independence.