Darfur Follow-ups
On Monday, The East African website, published from Kenya, quoted people close to the organizers of the upcoming IGAD summit as saying that work is underway to bring about changes in the political path that the summit will take as a result of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s recent movements in several African countries to influence the summit’s decisions. .
The site’s report explained that Al-Burhan, during his visits to Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti and Eritrea late last November, pushed for a reversal of the organization’s decision taken last June to form a quartet consisting of Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia and South Sudan in order to mediate dialogue to stop the war between the army and the support forces. The fast one.
The report indicated that Al-Burhan obtained the approval of Kenyan President William Ruto during his last meeting with him on the need to focus on the Jeddah platform and get rid of the issue of multiple tracks.
The website quoted an African diplomat as saying that the decisions of the IGAD summit cannot be canceled until a similar summit, according to the organization’s traditions.
The report suggested that IGAD would make room for the Jeddah platform to continue mediation in the Sudanese issue, given the acceptance enjoyed by the platform by both parties, in addition to the Sudanese government’s threats to withdraw from IGAD.
The report indicated that the Quartet failed to organize a meeting between the commanders of the army and the Rapid Support, because Al-Burhan refused to meet with the “criminals,” as he put it.
The website stated that IGAD’s reversal of its previous decision on Sudan at the summit that will be held on December 9 will represent a victory for General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the government he now leads.
It is noteworthy that those responsible for the Jeddah Platform suspended negotiations on Sunday indefinitely as a result of the failure of settlement efforts between the two parties.
