While the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, is witnessing an intense military deployment today (Wednesday), a day before the scheduled date for signing the final agreement for the political process between the Military Sovereignty Council and civilian forces, disputes over the security and military reform file are still outstanding, which may threaten the chances of reaching an agreement that ends the final stage of the conflict. political process.
A military source said: “The armored vehicles and cars that were seen in Khartoum come as a kind of insurance for the capital within the framework of a general plan developed by the military leadership, explaining that the military deployment is a routine procedure and Khartoum will witness more military and security deployment in the coming hours.”
Sudanese sources expected to postpone the final signing scheduled for tomorrow (Thursday), especially after the joint technical committee between the army and rapid support ruled out the completion of the outstanding issues between the two parties today.
Sources in the technical committee stated that a number of points were agreed upon, but there are differences in others, especially the issue of the dependency of rapid support during the transitional period.
For his part, the spokesman for the political process, Khaled Omar, confirmed that the civil forces received the final draft agreement after including the observations of all parties, saying: We are waiting for the details of the schedules of the four stages of the reform, merger and modernization process to be completed by the technical committees of the army and rapid support, while the civil forces said that they have begun to arrange For an urgent meeting with the military forces that signed the framework agreement in order to discuss the obstacles that delayed the signing of the final agreement and ways to overcome them.
Khartoum is expected to witness (Thursday) protest demonstrations on the anniversary of April 6, 2019, when the demonstrators reached the walls of the General Command and the army announced its support for the popular movement and the overthrow of the regime of former President Omar al-Bashir.
This came in conjunction with the renewal of tribal violence in the Bakuri region, 100 kilometers south of Damazin, the capital of the Blue Nile region. According to government sources in the Blue Nile region, 4 people were killed.
Okaz (Khartoum) @okaz_online