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The “final signing” of a peace agreement between the Sudanese government and rebel groups is scheduled for October 2 in South Sudan’s capital Juba, the chief mediator for the talks announced on Sunday.
“October 2 is the date of the final signing of the peace agreement between the government and the ‘parties to the peace process,'” wrote Tut Gatluak, head of the mediation team and South Sudan’s presidential adviser on issues, on Twitter. of security.
Gatluak did not elaborate and no further details were immediately available.
Sudanese authorities and leaders of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), a coalition of rebel groups, signed a historic peace agreement on August 31 in Juba aimed at ending nearly two decades of conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands. people, particularly in West Darfur. .
Established in 2011, the SRF brings together rebels from the war-torn western region of Darfur, as well as the southern states of Blue Nile and South Kordofan.
Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok signed a separate agreement in Ethiopia with a faction of the rebel North Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM-N), which had refused to accept the agreement reached in Juba, officials from both said on Friday. parts.
Reaching a peace agreement with rebel groups has been a priority for Sudan’s transitional government, which came to power after the April 2019 ouster of autocrat Omar al-Bashir after months of massive protests.
The agreement covers key issues around security, land ownership, transitional justice, power-sharing and the return of people who fled their homes due to the fighting.
It also provides for the dismantling of the rebel forces and the integration of their combatants into the national army.
The fighting in Darfur alone left around 300,000 dead after the rebels took up arms in 2003.
The conflict in South Kordofan and the Blue Nile erupted in 2011 when South Sudan seceded from Sudan, resuming a war that had raged from 1983 to 2005.
