{"id":56490,"date":"2025-10-30T03:53:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=56490"},"modified":"2025-10-30T03:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:53:57","slug":"democratic-bloc-declines-swiss-workshop-invitation-rejects-sitting-with-sumoud-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/democratic-bloc-declines-swiss-workshop-invitation-rejects-sitting-with-sumoud-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Bloc Declines Swiss Workshop Invitation, Rejects Sitting with \u2018Sumoud\u2019 Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Bloc announced it would not participate in a political workshop organized by the French organization Promediation in Nyon, Switzerland, scheduled for October 29\u201331, which was to include the Sumoud alliance.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the bloc said its presidential council discussed the invitation during an October 8 meeting in Port Sudan but failed to reach a consensus on participation.<br \/>\nIt reiterated its refusal to sit with Sumoud, describing it as a political ally of the RSF militia under an agreement signed in Addis Ababa on January 2, 2024\u2014unless within a final Sudanese dialogue framework with broad participation and proper confidence-building measures in place.<\/p>\n<p>The bloc thanked Promediation for the invitation but affirmed its commitment to an inclusive Sudanese\u2013Sudanese dialogue, excluding those implicated in war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide.<\/p>\n<p>It urged all national forces to focus efforts on countering the RSF and its allies and addressing the ongoing violations against civilians\u2014especially in El Fasher.<br \/>\nThe statement concluded by honoring the martyrs, wounded, missing, and detained, affirming the inevitability of victory for the will of the Sudanese people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Bloc announced it would not participate in a political workshop organized by the French organization Promediation in Nyon, Switzerland, scheduled for October 29\u201331, which was to include the Sumoud alliance. In a statement, the bloc said its presidential council discussed the invitation during an October 8 meeting in Port Sudan but failed to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56491,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56490\/revisions\/56491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}