Committee seeks help to reintegrate SPLM/A ex-fighters

KHARTOUM, Sudan, Mar 9, 2005 (PANA) — A committee set up to disarm, demobilise and reintegrate combatants following last January’s peace agreement between Khartoum and the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) is seeking the assistance of experts, including economists, sociologists and psychiatrists.

Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) soldiers look at a copy of the comprehensive peace agreement, before their meeting in Rumbek, on Sunday, January 23, 2005. (AFP) .

At a workshop organised to launch the process, the chairman of the Higher Committee for Disarmament, Demobilisation and Integration of ex-fighters (HCDDI), Sulaf Aldin Salih said the government was charting out a plan to integrate all fighters and war-affected people, including women and children, into their ethnic communities and social life as a whole.

“Our committee has already contacted international organizations, the ministry of Higher Education ministry, the departments of Statistics and Labour as well as SPLM/A for data and guidance,” Salih said.