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The United States confirmed that it supported talks between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces in the Bahraini capital Manama last January.
With this assertion, the United States dispels many of the doubts that accompanied the reports that these talks took place in the absence of any official statement by either side in the fighting in Sudan about these talks, which were kept strictly confidential.
In a media briefing for US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Molly Fei, published on the website of the US Department of State and attended by US Ambassador to Sudan John Godevery, Washington affirmed its support for the initiative of the Authority on Development in Africa (IGAD), and called on Sudanese Army Commander Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and Rapid Support Forces Commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo (Hemedti), to fulfill the decisions of the extraordinary summit of the Commission held on the ninth of December, which stipulated a direct meeting between them.
“The United States has made many efforts to find a negotiated solution to the 10-month-old conflict between the two sides that has killed some 13,000 people, displaced more than 10 million and left a complex humanitarian situation,” Godfrey said.
A document was recently leaked through the media, the authenticity of which has not yet been verified, indicating that there was a preliminary agreement of 21 items between the heads of the negotiating delegations in Manama, the deputy commander of the Sudanese army, Shams al-Din al-Kabbashi, and the second commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Abdul Rahim Dagalo.
According to the leaked document, the Manama Agreement stipulates:
- Cessation of hostilities and keeping each side’s forces in place, as proposed by international experts.
- Building and establishing a professional and nationalist army of all forces (army, rapid support, armed movements), and distancing the armed forces from adopting any ideology or party affiliation.
- Dismantling the empowerment of the Brotherhood regime that ruled the country from the 1989 coup until its fall in April 2019.
- The arrest of fugitives from prisons and the surrender of those wanted by the Criminal Court to international justice, led by deposed President Omar al-Bashir and his assistant Ahmed Haroun.