Addis Ababa, August 04/2016(WIC)– The African Union (AU) disclosed that peace talks between the Sudan government, the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM)/northern sector, the Darfur armed movements and opposition alliance will resume in Addis Ababa on August 8, 2016, according to Xinhua News Agency.
Chairman of the AU Liaison Office in Khartoum, Mahmoud Kan told the agency that "the Ethiopian capital will witness next week meetings of the AU mediation with the opposition Sudan Call (an alliance bringing together Sudanese armed groups and opposition parties) to be followed by resumption of negotiations between the government and the armed movements on Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile regions."
The meeting will begin on August 8 and last August 11," it was indicated.
The first meeting would be held on August 8 with the opposition to sign the road-map agreement, to be followed by the resumption of the talks on cessation of hostilities and delivery of the humanitarian assistance directly after the signing of the road-map as of August 9 until August 11.
Last March, the AU High-Level Implementation Panel on Sudan (AUHIP) proposed a road-map agreement for the Sudanese rivals, stipulating arrangements related to cease-fire at South Kordofan, Blue Nile and Darfur regions, entering a peace process and involving the armed movements in the national dialogue currently convened in Khartoum.
The Sudanese government unilaterally signed the road-map agreement, while the SPLM/northern sector, the Darfur rebel movements and the opposition alliance refused to sign the deal.
The AU has been patronizing the negotiations between the Sudanese government and the SPLM/northern sector to reach a settlement for the conflict in those two areas, but the two sides failed to achieve any progress in the last rounds of talks.