To calm eastern Sudan.. A meeting between Hamdok and Al-Burhan without...

With the Sudanese government’s announcement yesterday, Tuesday, negotiating suspension With the leaders of the protests in the east of the country, the crisis is back to square one.

However, the government’s efforts did not stop. Reliable sources indicated to Al-Arabiya / Al-Hadath, today, Wednesday, that Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok and five ministers, including (finance and foreign affairs) met the President of the Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, yesterday evening, Tuesday, to find urgent solutions to the crisis in eastern Sudan, but the proof He refused to meet the ministers and met Hamdok alone.

joint committee

The sources did not reveal what transpired between the two, but the Council of Ministers, in a statement yesterday, issued a decision toFormation of a committee Headed by the President of the Council and the membership of a number of ministers, to contact the military component to develop solutions to the crisis, but the differences between the civil and military components are currently impeding communication between them.

In addition, she explained that the government decided to suspend negotiations until the convening of the High Peace Council, but Hamdok considered that a joint committee between the civil and military sides could resolve the crisis more than waiting for the meeting.

Address waiting

The same sources warned that the escalation in the east might take a different character, after the speech that the head of the Beja Supreme Council, Muhammad al-Amin, will deliver today in front of the leaders and soldiers of the Beja Congress forces.

It is noteworthy that the higher coordinations of eastern Sudan, had submitted a written response to the head of the government negotiating delegation, Shams El-Din Kabbashi, affirming their adherence to canceling the eastern path and dissolving the transitional government in order to stop all manifestations of escalation in the east, which prompted the government yesterday to temporarily suspend negotiations.

It should be noted that the problem of eastern Sudan was renewed in the middle of last month (September) with the closure of Port Sudan, and the demonstrations lasted for days before a government delegation visited the region and met with its leaders to negotiate and reach a solution that restores calm to those areas that are considered the poorest in the country.

The solutions vary between the civil and military components of the crisis in the east of the country, as civilians accuse the military component of supporting the eastern entities in the escalation against the civilian government to weaken it, while the military component believes that the political crisis is in the hands of the transitional government, and that dissolving the manifestations of escalation in the streets and the port is one of the police duties that belong to the Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdouk, not the army!