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By Al-Tahir Satti<\/strong><\/p>\n

In November 2019, while the government was negotiating with the armed struggle movements in Juba, the Prime Minister of that very government, Hamdok, visited Darfur. He reviewed a guard of honor and toured some displacement camps, wearing a bright white, classic half-sleeve shirt. The headlines in newspapers and online platforms focused on the shirt, not the visit\u2019s program or objectives. He was mocked and criticized, and the entire event was reduced to *the shirt*!<\/p>\n

I defended him, advising those critics not to let Hamdok\u2019s shirt distract them from the country\u2019s real issue \u2014 Darfur\u2019s need for peace. I said that the Prime Minister\u2019s visit to the displaced people was a sign of hope for peace. No government official had ever dared to approach the displaced or the refugees throughout the entire Darfur crisis. Governors used to deceive the world by organizing crowds far from the camps. None dared approach a real camp.<\/p>\n

I was pleased by Hamdok\u2019s visit as the first official to enter the heart of the displacement camps, and by the warm reception and generous hospitality he received. The displaced did not chant against him as they did against Kibir and other officials from the Bashir era. Rather, they welcomed and honored him, chanting: *\u201cThank you, Hamdok.\u201d* He addressed them directly and listened to them \u2014 something that never happened during the pre-revolution decades. So, what has changed today?<\/p>\n

The internal camps are still the same. The refugee shelters abroad are still the same. What has changed is that Hamdok no longer dares \u2014 and likely never will \u2014 to visit a camp inside the country or a shelter abroad, like Kamal Idris did today in the administrative capital, Port Sudan. Idris visited shelters, extended Eid greetings, listened to their complaints, and asked for their prayers for success and a safe return to their homes.<\/p>\n

Nothing prevents Hamdok from visiting the displaced and refugees except fear \u2014 fear for his life due to their anger \u2014 and shame. Yes, his submission to the Abu Dhabi regime that supports the Al-Dagalo terrorist militia, which caused the displacement and refuge, is what keeps Hamdok from approaching Sudan and its people abroad. There is no other reason.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just Hamdok. All members of his \u201csteadfast\u201d group are incapable of standing before the displaced abroad, let alone even considering visiting them internally. They talk a lot about civilians, but out of fear \u2014 and shame \u2014 they avoid them. They speak of war victims, yet they never visited Sultan of the Masalit to offer condolences, despite some of the victims being buried alive.<\/p>\n

No one regrets the absence of these “steadfast” members. No one misses them. Some of them are so irrelevant their families don\u2019t even expect them home for lunch. What we do regret is Hamdok \u2014 now trapped in the circles of billionaires, as Cameron Hudson described in his recent tweet. We regret him only because a politician with such (now lost) popularity had the potential to play a positive role \u2014 had he sided with his homeland, not with Emirati dirhams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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