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September 7, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – A Sudanese presidential assistant has accused Uganda of orchestrating a meeting in Addis Ababa last month between the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) and the Sudanese rebel groups.

Sudan Call leders pose outside the AUPSC building in Addis Ababa on 24 August - (Photo ST)

Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid, who is also the deputy chairman of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP), said the meeting had been organized by Uganda's representative to the AUPSC. Describing the move as a ‘unilateral act', Hamid further stressed that it set a precedent for violating the AU charter.

He said the Sudanese government had officially demanded an explanation.

In an interview with the Turkish news agency Anadolu published Monday, Hamid said that the AUPSC's meeting with the rebel and opposition groups would have “negative repercussions as manifested by dealing with rebel and hardline groups that are playing havoc with peace in many countries.”

Sudanese opposition leaders held a meeting with AUPSC on August 24, on the eve of a session during which the 15-member body heard a report by Thabo Mbeki on his efforts to facilitate the dialogue process in Sudan.

At the conclusion of that session, the Council called for a national dialogue preparatory meeting on the issues related to the process and procedures between the government and the opposition groups in Addis Ababa.

Among those who attended that meeting were al-Sadig al-Mahdi, Head of the National Umma Party, and Malik Agar, Chairman of Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF), a coalition of rebel groups, including three movements from western Sudan region of Darfur and the SPLM-North which is fighting the government troops in Blue Nile and South Kordofan states.

Last March Khartoum turned down an invitation by the African Union High Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) for a pre-dialogue meeting with its rivals. That stance was read by the opposition as “backing off” from an African roadmap that the NCP had endorsed in September 2014.

Hamid denied any disagreements between his government and the AUPSC, which had mandated the AUHIP led by former South African President Thabo Mbeki to mediate between the Sudanese parties.

While describing Khartoum's relations with the AUPSC member states as ‘generally good', the Sudanese official pointed an accusing fingers at Uganda, which had strained relations with his government.

He interpreted the PSC delegate's absence from the hearing of the opposition groups as an indication that the meeting ‘was not official”. However, he called for “denouncing this precedent which can open the doors for armed rebels and terrorist organizations to have access to the African Union premises”.

The African Union is trying to rescue a faltering dialogue launched by President al-Bashir early last year, but was boycotted by the major political and armed opposition groups, in protest against al-Bashir's rejection of their preconditions.

In August 2014 the AU extended the mandate of the AUHIP and tasked it with the facilitation of the dialogue process, in addition to his mediation between Khartoum and Juba, and between Khartoum and the SPLM-N rebels.

The opposition groups say they are not opposed to holding the dialogue inside the Sudan. However, they are insisting that a pre-dialogue meeting be held abroad, under an African patronage, to create conducive environment for the dialogue.

On its part, Khartoum is still insisting that any discussions related to the political process should be held inside the Sudan and offered to guarantee the safety of the rebel leaders in case they accept to attend.

At its meeting on August 25, the AUPSC allowed mediator Mbeki 90 days to file a report on ‘the engagement of all Sudanese stakeholders in the efforts to hold serious, all-encompassing national dialogue as contemplated in the road map'.

(ST)

September 7, 2015 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan's government has distanced itself from the arrest of the Sudanese journalist, Waleed al-Hussein al-Dood who was detained by the Saudi authorities more than a month ago.

Al-Rakoba website logo

According to the Sudanese non-governmental Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) network, al-Dood, founder of the independent news website Al-Rakoba, was taken by security agents on July 23rd from his home in the city of al-Khobar and was transferred to the city of Dammam.

Rights groups and activists are concerned that Khartoum was behind al-Dood's arrest and that Riyadh could actually send him back to his home country.

However, Sudan's ambassador to Riyadh, Abdel-Hafiz Ibrahim, told Al-Sudani newspaper on Monday that the Sudanese government has nothing to do with the detention of al-Dood.

“There is no coordination between the Sudanese and the Saudi authorities on extraditing Waleed al-Hussein,” he added.

He added that al-Dood was arrested for violating regulation and laws of the Saudi Kingdom.

It is worth mentioning that JHR pointed out that al-Dood told his family that he is being well-treated and that his immigration status is not in question.

Meanwhile, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) coordinator for the Middle East, Munir Zaarour, has asked Sudan's Jorunalists Union (SJU) about al-Dood's conditions.

In a phone conversation, he demanded the secretary of freedoms at the SJU, Mohamed Abdel-Gadir, to seek to release al-Dood or bring him to a fair trial if he had violated the law.

But SJU's secretary of membership affairs, Merghani Younis, told the SudaniNet website that al-Dood is not a member of the SJU, saying he might be a blogger but not a registered journalist.

He pointed to ongoing efforts to establish a council for rationing and organizing internet blogging and providing the necessary legislations and controls.

The editorial board of Al-Rakoba has called upon the Saudi authorities to release al-Dood , asking them not to send him back to Sudan and to allow him to select another country if the Kingdom decided to expel him.

Al-Rakoba started off in 2005 as a discussion forum but has eventually transformed into a news website that carries stories and op-eds that are fiercely critical of the Sudanese government.

The website has attracted wide readership even inside Sudan despite intermittent government moves to block it.

(ST)

September 7, 2015 (KHARTOUM) -The Sudanese government has announced that the foreign minister, Ibrahim Ghandour, will head its delegation to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meetings late this month in New York.

United Nations Headquarters (UN Photo)

Last Month, Sudan's deputy UN ambassador Hassan Hamid Hassan affirmed that president Omer Hassan al-Bashir would lead Sudan's delegation to the UN annual meeting dedicated this year to sustainable development.

Also, Bashir's name appeared on a provisional list of speakers at the summit but several Sudanese officials said in subsequent statements that the government has yet to decide on his participation in the meeting.

A senior Sudanese diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Sudan Tribune Monday that Ghandour would head Sudan's delegation to the summit which will convene on September 19 th. He added that the delegation will be comprised of nine members.

He said the delegation intends to bring up several issues in the UNGA meetings including the economic sanctions imposed by the United States on Sudan and maintaining its name on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism besides the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Bashir and several other Sudanese officials.

Sudan is on the US list of countries supporting terrorism since 1993 and also subjected to economic sanctions since 1997.

According to the diplomat, those issues will be discussed with several regional and international blocs and organizations within the UN including the Arab ministers, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the non-aligned countries and the Group of 77.

“Sudan will seek to mobilize support for its position regarding those issues in the UN,” he added.

The senior diplomat stressed that Africa's foreign ministers would lead intensive moves on the sidelines of the UNGA meetings to promote the African Union (AU) decision ordering member states not to cooperate with the ICC.

The Sudanese president closely escaped being arrested and being turned over to the ICC while attending an AU summit in Johannesburg last June.

Bashir's attendance drew widespread controversy both inside and outside South Africa given his status as an individual wanted by the ICC for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide allegedly committed in Darfur since 2003.

(ST)

September 7, 2015 (JUBA) – South Sudan's government has hired war-planes from the government of neighbouring Uganda and have continued to bomb rebel held positions, defending the action as a move to regain territories from the rebels and push them farther in order to secure airport in the oil-rich Upper Nile state's capital, Malakal.

Soldiers from the South Sudan army (SPLA) patrol the streets in the Upper Nile state capital, Malakal, on 21 January 2014 (Photo: AFP/Charles Lomodong)

A senior official of the government said the air strikes and ground attacks against positions of the rebels was to secure the route government hired planes take when landing in Malakal, saying this was to minimize danger to planes passing over rebel-held territories.

“Fighting jets conducted air strikes on the rebel positions west of Malakal airport on Sunday and again Monday. The rebels are occupying the west bank on the other side of the Nile River. The landing aircrafts pass over these places which are occupied by the rebels. To secure the landing of these aircrafts, you must be sure of the safety of the aircrafts, crew members and the passengers,” a national cabinet minister told Sudan Tribune under the cover of anonymity on Monday.

The official who defended the activities of the government forces claimed opposition forces were hostile to aircrafts passing over the areas under their territories to land at the airport in town, saying in June, two months ago, the rebels shot at UNMISS aircraft carrying supplies, mistaking it to be government's hired plane that carried troops to the frontline.

“Last time they shot even at UNMISS plane which has no government officials. From the information we obtained during the clearance, the UNMISs told us it was to be used for normal supplies of non-military items. It was the forces of Johnson Olony and the rebels of Riek Machar which carried out this attack in June. This is the mistake which cannot be allowed to repeat itself if there is a way to do that,” he said in defense of the attacks on rebels.

The attacks on positions held by the armed opposition forces on the west bank of the River Nile with helicopter gunships launched from Malakal airport have allegedly caused damage to the runway and delayed the use of the airport by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in ferrying supplies, officials and residents said on Monday.

In Juba, South Sudan has also directed UNMISS not to be using Juba airport in the evening hours, allegedly to allow helicopters to do some exercise, but officials close to the decision making said this was to conceal the movement of attack helicopters from Juba to Malakal in the evening hours.

Multiple residents and eyewitnesses of Malakal town told Sudan Tribune on Monday during a series of interviews that the air attacks were carried out as part of preparations to facilitate the movement of the government forces to cross the Nile River using gunboats with amphibian tanks and other heavy weapons. This is to attack the opposition held territories in the west bank of the Nile despite government claims of commitment to full implementation of the ceasefire, they claimed.

Officials in Malakal said citizens have confused because the national government in Juba continued to launch attacks against the rebels while at the same time senior officials speak publicly of respect to ceasefire and implementation of the peace agreement.

“People are confused as to what is happening. The national government in Juba is talking about ceasefire and commitment to the full implementation of the peace agreement which the president has signed with the rebels to end the conflict, yet the area has been witnessing military confrontations,” a state government official told Sudan Tribune from Malakal town.

The government forces on Thursday and Friday last week , according to the source and confirmed by multiple military sources, crossed the Nile River to the west bank of Malakal airport on the side of the river in violation of the ceasefire. They are presently occupying two strategic positions in Alelo and Ditang previously held by the opposition forces before the ceasefire was declared on 29 August.

The objective of crossing to the other side of the river, sources say, is to secure the airport for airplanes landing in town with returning senior government officials from Juba and elsewhere in the state.

Colonel Philip Aguer, spokesperson of the South Sudan army (SPLA), said he was not aware of the development and called on the United States and the United Nations to fill the gap created by lack of monitoring mechanisms.

The military officer cited a statement issued by the chief of general staff of the government forces, Paul Malong Awan, as evidence of the commitment of the government forces to observe ceasefire.

“The statement issued by the chief of general staff calling on the United States and the United Nations to fill the gap created by lack of monitoring mechanism shows the commitment of the army command. The essence of the statement is that if there is any independent body to monitor the ceasefire the army is ready and welcoming anybody that will fill the gap to assure the transparency in the implementation of the ceasefire. On our side, we have complied,” Aguer told reporters on Monday.

However, early this week, Aguer appeared on South Sudan TV (SSTV), saying that government attack helicopters will escort war barges that cross rebel controlled territories in Unity and Jonglei states in their movement to Upper Nile state.

The accusation of attack of the government forces on rebel positions came a day after president Salva Kiir admitted that his forces had been violating the ceasefire and warned of punitive measures against any military officer who would not comply with his orders instructing the army's chief of general staff to observe the ceasefire.

President Kiir's comments hinted a division within his government over the peace agreement as some senior political and military officials have defied his orders while the president seems to be reluctant to act to discipline the officers he did not mention by name.

MONDAY ATTACKS

South Sudan's armed opposition led by former vice president, Machar, said government forces in the fifth consecutive days had attacked their base on Monday morning in violation of the ceasefire.

“Today around 11:00 am, the government forces launched counter military assaults on our position in Warjuok in Upper Nile state. The heavy shelling started this morning followed by a raid from infantry forces from the SPLA/Juba faction on our bases,” partly reads a statement issued on Monday by the rebels military spokesman, Colonel William Gatjiath Deng.

“This move came after the two Ugandan helicopters gunships used by South Sudan government had dropped random explosives and chemicals on our positions in Panyinkang, Tunja and Nyijuat Payam at 12pm yesterday. Today, the infantry forces were sent to dislodge our forces in the said mentioned areas,” he added.

He said the ceasefire violations demonstrated lack of commitment to peace by the government.

(ST)

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