The rebel alliance of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) has proposed a roadmap for a unified peace forum to achieve a comprehensive peace to put an end to the ongoing conflict in Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile states.
In an interview with Radio Tamazuj on Monday, the deputy chairman of the SRF Minni Arko Minnawi said they briefed the US Envoy to Sudan in Ethiopia recently on their position regarding a holistic approach to settle the conflict.
Minnawi who is also head of a faction of the Sudan Liberation Army/Movement further dismissed reports by some media outlets in Khartoum that he had accepted dialogue with the government.
“Such claims are meant to weaken the SRF. So we are aware of all those attempts,” he said.
Leaders of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) along with al-Sadiq al-Mahdi arrived in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa over the past weekend at the invitation of the AU mediator Thabo Mbeki where they held a leadership meeting and met with Mbeki.
The talks with the African Union mediator were unprecedented because previously Mbeki preferred dealing with SPLM-North, and not with its parent umbrella organization, SRF, which includes the Darfur-based rebel movements.
File photo: Minni Minawi (far right) with other SRF leaders and UNAMID envoy in Kampala, Uganda