Sudan: Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) rebels will hold peace talks with Sudanese government in March
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) will hold talks with the Sudanese government in Addis Ababa on 5 March, announced Yasir Arman, the secretary-general of the group on Friday.
In a written statement emailed to Sudan Tribune, Arman said the SPLM-N chairman, Malik Agar, had confirmed in a message to the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) that a 10-member delegation, led by the movement’s secretary-general, will take part in the talks.
Last year, the Sudanese government and SPLM-N delegation signed an agreement on humanitarian assistance after indirect talks brokered by the AU mediation team. However, both sides later failed to implement the deal over disagreements on how to distribute humanitarian assistance to affected civilians in the rebel-held areas.