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The AU will not be a party to talks that exclude significant actors in an effort to get Sudan’s transition back on track after last year’s military coup
The AU will not be a party to talks that exclude significant actors in an effort to get Sudan’s transition back on track after last year’s military coup. Sudan’s main civilian players have so far boycotted talks with military leaders launched under international auspices earlier this month on reaching a political accommodation that would enable the restoration of desperately needed Western aid.
In a stern message to the military junta, the African Union said that it could not continue the dishonest and opaque discussions, which excluded participants or treat them unfairly, Mohammed Belaiche, the AU ambassador in Khartoum said, while briefing journalists.
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However, the AU representative clarified that he did not mean that the AU withdrew from the troika that is formed with the UN and the East African regional organisation IGAD to supervise this dialogue. The organization is refusing to participate in certain activities because of the opacity and lack of respect for the participants in this dialogue. The only people who attended the inter-Sudanese dialogue were the military and their allies among the former rebels who signed a peace deal with Khartoum after the fall of dictator Omar al-Bashir in 2019. The AU has suspended Sudan since the October 25, 2021 coup led by army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane.
