{"id":56544,"date":"2022-06-22T13:03:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T10:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=56544"},"modified":"2022-06-22T13:24:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T10:24:41","slug":"african-union-quits-dishonest-sudan-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/african-union-quits-dishonest-sudan-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"African Union quits ‘dishonest’ Sudan talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The African Union has said it will no longer broker talks on getting Sudan’s transition back on track after an October military coup as a civilian boycott had made them “dishonest”.<\/p>\n

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“The AU cannot continue these dishonest, opaque discussions which sideline participants or treat them in an unjust way,” the bloc’s ambassador to Sudan, Mohammed Belaiche, told reporters late Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The AU suspended Sudan after the military’s October 27 overthrow of a joint civilian-military transitional government installed in the aftermath of the army’s 2019 ouster of longtime president Omar al-Bashir.<\/p>\n

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Many foreign donors cut off aid, which accounts for 40 percent of state revenues, prompting military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan to agree to talks launched by the United Nations, the AU and east African bloc IGAD earlier this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But the talks have been undermined by a boycott by all significant civilian players, including both Sudan’s established political parties and groups born out of the mass protests that led to Bashir’s ouster.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Since US envoys failed to persuade the civilians to give the talks a chance, the process has been put on hold indefinitely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n