After the divider, can Sudanese anti-war coalition re-invented? | Sudan War News

10. February, the largest anti-war coalition against Sudan, Taqaddum, finally scattered.

Disagreement was over whether to participate in a new parallel government established by paramilitary high-support forces (RSF), one of the battle parties in the Sudan almost two years.

Formed in October 2023. year, the coalition of Taqaddum included the armed movements, political parties and civil society activists and led by Abdall Hamdok, a former Prime Minister who premiited by the Sudan Army and RSF in 2021. years.

Now Taqaddum divided into two.

Members leading to political positions in the parallel administration of the RSF are now known as Taasis (Foundation). Mostly armed movements, analysts said Al Jazeera, who paid back weapons in the leaders in the new RSF government.

“Armed groups do not have a constituency, so they rely on a large, armed actor (like RSF) as a guarantor for a political place,” Kholood Khair said, the founder of the Confluence Advisory Thought.

Traditional political leaders, including Hamdok, who decided not to join the RSF, formed a smaller anti-war coalition called Somoud (resistance), trying to preserve their neutrality and reputation, said.

“Political parties are not needed (guarantor) and that would be political suicide to form a government with RSF … they do not want to see them as a government with genociders,” which added, referring to the united determination of the states that RSF committed genocide in the Sudanese Darfurch region.

Marked label

Taqaddum was originally an anti-war coalition at the end of the conflict that set aside between the RSF and the army in April 2023, after the dispute on how and when to integrate the former in the latter.

The conflict launched the largest humanitarian crisis on most measures, with tens of thousands killed in armed conflicts, famous declared in several regions and about 12 million people amounted to their homes.

Taqaddum was already fighting for relevance, and many of his civilian politicians who were considered as an intermediation – seemingly focused on the end of the war and restarted the transition to the democratic rule that 2021 brackets pulled out.

Taqadum’s reputation took a much larger blow when he signed the Declaration on the Principles (CSR) with RSF in January 2024. Years.

The CSP was allegedly focused on repaying the provisions of services in the areas under the management of the RSF and ensure that the Group respects the basic laws of the war.

But The deal came for days after RSF captured Wad Madana, The capital of Sudanese State of Gezira Gezira, where he committed crimes, including rape, robbery and extraordinary murders, according to local monitors.

Taqaddum saw many as a white RSF abuse by signing the CSA at the time.

The agreement also caused many Western diplomats “increasing worrying that parts of Taqaddum were harmonized,” said Alan Boswell, Sudan Expert for the International Crisis Group.

Hamid Khalafallah, an analyst of Sudan and a doctoral candidate at the University of Manchester, agreed that the signing of the deteriorated crisis for the legitimacy of Taqaddum.

“There was an issue of taqadum cozying up with the rsf or being slightly more in line with the rsf become what taqaddum wanted to hear and the army was quite Resistant (to Peace Talks),” Khalafallah Told Al Jazeera.

A new beginning?

Analysts said Al Jazeeri that the sprayer may be “blessing in disguise” because it allows Somous members to distance themselves from RSF, and better connect to Sudanese civilians.

Boswell believes that Somoud is now less infected than Taqaddum, but also noticeably smaller as a coalition and predicts that the West “wait and see” before they will consider the neutral actor.

It also believes that in the best case, Somoud may part of the Government’s civilian unity, where most officials are harmonized with one of the two warring parties as part of the POWER agreement for the end of the war.

Khalafallah said Somoud should do more reach to local organizations and activist groups and ensure that his rhetoric is not excluded from the reality of Sudan civilians in the field.

“They can acknowledge that people have better experiences in the field of (army),” said Khalafallah, “said Khalafallah, emphasizing that Somoud could preserve her neutrality as such a recognition for such recognition would not contrary to their By calling the army and RSF to complete this war quickly.

SOMOD ELMEDNI, Associate Professor at the School of Business, Public Administration on Dugo Island University, says that Somoud has always done the reach and believes that Taqaddum is too close to RSF was part of the campaign campaign against the anti-war coalition.

He claims that the military helped writing the CSR and invited to signing, but refused to attend, use the DOP in the Taqaddum as a coalition that “sympathize or supports” RSF.

“From the day we knew that the accusations (against Taqaddum) were part of the political campaign … Everyone knew they were lies,” he said Al Jazeera.

“However, it affected the impression of Taqaddum, but to sincerely tell you, I do not believe that there was evidence that suggests that Taqaddum supported RSF.”

Many civilians across the country despise RSF and a welcome soldier reserving the territory, saying the military brings some form of stability.

However, the military was also accused of committing a wave of reprisus murders from perceived RSF sympathizers. The attacks are often over ethnic lines or against activists and local reliefs, they say that the UN Human Rights Groups and the Field Monitors.

Army spokesman Nabil Abdullah repeatedly denied such allegations in Al Jazeer.