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The United Nations reported that more than 16,000 people have been displaced because of attacks on villages of Beleil in South Darfur last week, amidst strong condemnation of violence in the region.

The Forces for Freedom and Change-Central Council (FFC-CC) maintained that only certain parties are entitled to sign the Framework Agreement and that it refuses to “flood the political process” with parties that are not interested in democracy. Rebel leader Malik Agar called the agreement “exclusionary and weak” and Wajdi Saleh said that it “will not lead to a democratic transition”.

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, a civil society organisation, Convergence for a Working People's Political Alternative (COPA) has declared its support for the presidential bid of Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC). The group made its decision known in a communique issued on Thursday at the end of the hybrid national symposium held at the National Advocacy Centre, Abuja.

A civil society organisation under the umbrella of the Convergence for a Working People's Political Alternative (COPA) has hosted some political parties and other civil society organisations at its symposium in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Khartoum and 16 other cities yesterday in the December 19 Marches of the Millions, which commemorated the beginning of the 2018 December revolution, to demand the overthrow of the putschists.

Agreement has been met with protests and rejection by the Resistance Committees along with some Islamic groupings Political Analysis On December 5 yet another transitional political framework was signed in the Republic of Sudan by the military regime and the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC), the broad-based democracy organization…

The mainstream Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party announced its departure from the ranks of the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition due to the fact that the majority of coalition parties signed the Framework Agreement, which the party believes is “devoted to legitimising the October 25 coup”.

US threatens democracy 'spoilers', including applying visa restrictions to current and former Sudanese officials

Mohamed El Mahdi Hasan, head of the Political Bureau of the National Umma Party (NUP), says that the framework agreement is open for necessary amendments proposed by current opponents. He told Radio Dabanga on Wednesday that they are contacting the main opponent groups to discuss their concerns. “The signatory and non-signatory parties agree on 95 per cent of the framework agreement articles,” he said. “It is never possible to achieve complete consensus.”

While civilians and pundits cautiously welcomed Sudan’s new framework agreement, and others lauded its signing on Monday, several political parties and groups have expressed their categorical rejection of a settlement with the military.