Africa Intelligence: Saudi Arabia Agreed to Include Egypt and UAE in Jeddah Negotiations
Events – Agencies
The Africa Intelligence newspaper has said that the army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) negotiations led by Riyadh and Washington are scheduled to resume in Jeddah soon
The newspaper revealed that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which will host this new round, has agreed to include Egypt and the United Arab Emirates to the negotiating table alongside the African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD).
Africa Intelligence said, “The negotiators are counting on the Egyptian presence to help obtain guarantees from the Sudanese Armed Forces, led by General Abdul Fattah Al-Burhan.”
It indicated that the next official round is expected to depend on the results of the secret talks organized by the UAE and Egypt in Manama last January in the presence of American and Saudi representatives.
A US State Department spokesman told the newspaper, “We believe that the best platform for formal negotiations is for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to host comprehensive negotiations in Jeddah… We believe that the Jeddah platform will benefit from the lessons and progress made through other initiatives, and that this is the appropriate time to strengthen and accelerate negotiations to end the war”.
The newspaper added that the ground is changing for those speaking on behalf of the Sudanese issue: while the European Union’s Special Representative for the Horn of Africa, Annette Weber, supports the inclusion of the Forces of Freedom and Change – the Democratic Bloc, which consists of former rebel leaders since the beginning of the war.
