Darfur figure snubs offer to lead new rebel group
September 15, 2009 (PARIS) — A Darfur figure brushed aside a proposal to lead a newly formed rebel group in Tripoli after failing to bring all the factions together.
However, Al-Sissi dismissed the proposal saying he could only take the leadership of SLRF if all the rebel factions come together under the same umbrella.
A well placed source confirmed the move to Sudan Tribune but declined to be named.
“I’m ready to lead the new movement if all of you commit yourself to a real and strong unity,” Al Sissi told the rebels.
However, the SLM-Unity of Abdallah Yahiya and United Revolutionary Forces Front (URFF) that had been announced part of the new groups marked their distance and said not involved in it. Also, the United Resistance Front (URF) of Abu Garda did not join the group while it and the two other groups had initiated the unification process in Libya since last March.
Last month before the holding of the African Union (AU) special summit on peace and security in Tripoli Libya succeeded to bring all the rebel groups including the Justice and Equality Movement with only the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) of Abdel Wahid Al-Nur was absent.
Tripoli sought in a way or in another to create one structure before the resumption of peace talks in Doha. The Libyan officials simultaneously pushed the factions to establish a new structure but also worked to persuade them and JEM rebels to get together in one structure.
The Libyan authorities were pressed by the need to produce a breakthrough before the end of the summit but also where concerned by what Cairo and the US envoy to Sudan had said one week before the African meeting on the need to create a new group not only find a common ground deal as Tripoli had done.
The announcement of the SLFR at this point was seen as a demonstration of the Libyan influence of the rebel groups.
Al-Sissi’s refusal to accept leadership post of the newly created rebel umbrella represents a setback to Libyan efforts to reunite the divided rebel groups.
However, the source further added that efforts conducted by US envoy Scott Gration in Addis Ababa have negatively affected Tripoli’s unification process and opened another alternative to some faction who had felt marginalized by the Libyan efforts.
At the time, the leader of SLM-Unity Abdallah Yahiya told Sudan Tribune that the Addis Ababa group had agreed to hold a unity meeting inside the country among their supporters. He stressed that this meeting is needed before the reunification.
Yahiya also removed the spokesperson of the group, Mahjoub Hussein, from his position and suspended his membership. Hussein was seen as Tripoli man in the SLM-Unity and he had been prepared to play an important role in the new structure.
The joint mediator for Darfur peace process announced he would hold a workshop in Doha where all the rebel groups would be convened to participate in order to help them to overcome their differences and to lay out a joint vision before the peace process expected to take place at the end of October.
The diverse initiatives undertaken by neighboring and international facilitators, apparently in open competition, seem affecting the mediation, which tries to conduct its mission with a different approach.
(ST)
Oduko
Darfur figure snubs offer to lead new rebel group
Well done Darfurians poeple, wake up don’t give up your rights you will be your own country very soon just hold your positions and Republic of South Sudan will help you to your new country after they South get it own state we in SPLM always with those who need freedoms
Dinka Boy
Darfur figure snubs offer to lead new rebel group
My brothers and sisters of Darfur, struggling need blood shed.
I believed if you join hand with SPLA/M, we will crash North to ash.
Northern Government use Darfurians for long period of time to attack Northern Bar el gazel, and engage in the North Military that fought against SPLA/M.
Stand firm,
SPLA/M will help you because they were their Malaria quin.
oshay
Darfur figure snubs offer to lead new rebel group
Darfuris will utimatley be united with Muslims just like they did with the civil war. The bravest Darfuris were whooping SPLA thugs all over Bor.
jalabi
Darfur figure snubs offer to lead new rebel group
What??? Darfurians are muslims and will never put their hands on infidel hands, they fought against SPLA in the south and they gave many martyrs. Yes there are very small Darfurians traitors but that’s normal as you can find that in any group of people. South Sudan will separate and will go to hell after separation because Dinka will slave all none Dinka in the south, we will close our borders and will not accept any refuges
Gatwech
Darfur figure snubs offer to lead new rebel group
Dear readers,
This is just for clarity because it appears that some people use foreign words of which meanings they don’t even know. And especially when they use it as an insult on others.
What does the word ‘Nyagat’ mean? From where does it originate in the 1980s? For those of us who were in Ethiopia, the word ’Nyagat’ came from the Ethiopian Amharic language word ’negade’ which means capitalist, business people, traders, etc.
It was used by the SPLM/A at that time because of influence from communist or socialist Ethiopia that rejected capitalism. They called them bourgeousie.
But does the SPLM still believe in the sytem of communism and hate capitalists to still call them with the twisting tongue, ’Nyagat.?’ I thought we have already gone capitalist.
The description was originally aimed at those of Samuel Gai Tut who rejected socialism as a system the movement would follow and also demanded separation of the South from the North as the objective that the SPLM/A would have followed from the beginning. They didn’t like new Sudan idea which was copied from new Ethiopia of President Mengistu’s slogan.
It is very interesting that the word ‘Nyagat’ has become a frequently used insult by those who do not even know its meaning. I love the origin of the word despite its intention by users.