September 15, 2020 (Khartoum) Sudan’s Peace Council has welcomed the peace agreement signed by initials with the parties to the peace process in Juba late last August, and considered it a historic step on
the road to achieving a comprehensive and just peace and implementing the tasks of the transitional period.
The council appreciated the efforts of the negotiating delegation from the two parties, and the mediation role of the State of South Sudan and President Salva Kiir Mayardit, to facilitate reaching a
peace agreement in Sudan.
In a statement seen by Darfur 24, the Council affirmed the preparations of all organs of the transitional authority to abide by the agreement and implement its provisions on the ground.
The peace agreement protocols include, Security, issue of land and hawakir, transitional justice, compensation and reparation, development of the nomads and herders sector, wealth and power
sharing, and displaced persons and refugees issues.
The deal also includes the necessity of dismantling the armed movements and their fighters so that they can joining regular army, which will be restrucured to represent of all segments of the
Sudanese people.
In a related development, the Council listened to enlightenment from Prime Minister Dr. Abdullah Hamdok about his meeting with the Chairman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, Abdel Aziz Al-Hilu, in the
Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
The Council praised the initiative of the Prime Minister to break the negotiation stalemate that had stopped for a long time with Al-Hilu, describing it as courageous.
The deal was concluded by Sudan while the international community is mobilising to support poor and politically unstable East African country after 30 years of oppression, war and corruption by the former
regime that ruined its national economy.
Sudan witnessed, on August 21 of last year, the beginning of a 39-month transition period ending with elections in late 2022.