ALBAWABA - Two Sudanese politicians Al-Hadi Idris and Ibrahim Al-Mirghani told Reuters that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) signed a charter with allied political and armed groups on Saturday to create a "government of peace and unity" in the areas it controls.
Al-Hadi Idris, an ex-official and head of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front, revealed that a rival government formation will be announced in Sudan in the coming days.
Reuters also reported that the charter was agreed upon not only by RSF representatives but also by Idris and Al-Mirghani, as well as the leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, Abdel Aziz Al-Hilu, whose forces control vast areas of land in South Kordofan State.
According to the text of the charter, the signatories agreed that Sudan should be a “secular, democratic and decentralized state” with a single national army, but reserved the right of armed groups to continue to exist.
The charter also details that the new government’s mission was not to divide the country but to unite it and end the war, tasks that the government allied with the army and operating from Port Sudan had not been able to achieve.
The war in Sudan began on April 15, 2023, between the Sudanese Armed Forces, led by Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which is managed by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, generally referred to as Hemedti.
The civil war in Sudan is taking an "even more dangerous turn for civilians," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said in January.
Accordign to the New York Times, the conflict between RSF and the Sudanese army has killed 150,000 people and forcibly displaced over 11 million others from their homes, according to some estimates.
