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The Sudanese Coordination of Civil Democratic Forces (Taqaddum) has said it was ready to meet with Sudanese army commander Abdulfattah al-Burhan “at any place and time” of his choosing, including in the temporary capital, Port Sudan. Taqaddum’s spokesman, Alaeddine Naqd, indicated that the coordination committee is ready to meet with Burhan “anywhere and at any time, whether inside or outside Sudan and that it has been requesting such a meeting since last December.”

Senior leaders from Sudan's army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) met several times last month in Bahrain, the first such contact between the two warring sides since the beginning of the war last April, sources with knowledge of the talks said. General Shamseldin Kabbashi and the RSF deputy leader General Abdelrahim Dagalo, a brother of RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, met in Manama seeking a political deal to end the war in the country. However, RSF sources said the meetings were suspended in protest against the army's restoration of relations with Iran.

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