{"id":58012,"date":"2025-12-01T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=58012"},"modified":"2025-12-01T00:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:00:16","slug":"the-modest-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/the-modest-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"The Modest Ones\u2026!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

One of the signs of returning political sobriety is that activists of the Sumood (Resilience) alliance have humbled themselves to the point of expressing readiness to sit with the Democratic Bloc and the forces aligned with, and supportive of, the Sudanese Armed Forces in the Battle of Dignity. Their aim, as stated in their latest communiqu\u00e9, is to jointly manage the political process.<\/p>\n

This is a positive development\u2014indeed, a healthy reversal of the exclusionary mindset that previously rejected any broadening of participation in the Framework Agreement. It also contrasts sharply with Mohamed al-Faki\u2019s earlier remark to the military\u2014\u201cWe\u2019ve taken a hit to our political standing just by sitting with you\u201d\u2014to which Hemedti angrily snapped back: \u201cAnd who even knows you? Are we the nobodies here?\u201d<\/p>\n

But days turned, and much money flowed beneath the bridges of shifting alliances. Al-Faki\u2019s Sumood and Hemedti\u2019s Janjaweed became milk-brothers under the sheikhdom of Abu Dhabi, while the national forces remained\u2014as they always were\u2014deeply patriotic, loyal to their army, their people, and their country against the Tatar of scattered Arabs and the Mongols of the Emirati sheikhdom.<\/p>\n

It is good that Sumood is now prepared to sit with those who share the dignity trenches with the army in defense of the homeland. Yet two questions arise:
\nWill the Abu Dhabi sheikhdom allow its prot\u00e9g\u00e9 to sit with the \u201cremnants\u201d and \u201cwar-mongers\u201d (i.e., the national forces)? And will the national forces agree to sit with the prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of the patron of the Janjaweed?<\/p>\n

In my view, if the Abu Dhabi sheikhdom permits its Sumood activists to engage with the Democratic Bloc and all forces supporting the Armed Forces, the national forces will not reject the idea of sitting with Sumood in pursuit of a just peace\u2014for the quest for a just peace is the ultimate goal of the army and the national forces.<\/p>\n

The national forces are responsible enough, even though Nour Al-Da\u2019im Taha, a leader in the Democratic Bloc, once said in an interview: \u201cSitting with the agents of this phase and the political incubator of the militia\u2014even over a game of dominoes in a popular caf\u00e9\u2014diminishes the political standing of anyone who sits with them, even if that person were Nelson Mandela.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Al-Tahir Satti One of the signs of returning political sobriety is that activists of the Sumood (Resilience) alliance have humbled themselves to the point of expressing readiness to sit with the Democratic Bloc and the forces aligned with, and supportive of, the Sudanese Armed Forces in the Battle of Dignity. Their aim, as stated …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58012","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=58012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58013,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58012\/revisions\/58013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}