{"id":214873,"date":"2022-01-27T22:35:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T20:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/third-week-of-unfacilitated-consultations-for-a-political-process-for-sudan-broadens-engagement-of-groups-from-various-sudanese-states?lang=en"},"modified":"2022-01-27T22:35:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T20:35:49","slug":"third-week-of-un-facilitated-consultations-for-a-political-process-for-sudan-broadens-engagement-of-groups-from-various-sudanese-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/third-week-of-un-facilitated-consultations-for-a-political-process-for-sudan-broadens-engagement-of-groups-from-various-sudanese-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Third week of UN-facilitated consultations for a political process for Sudan broadens engagement of groups from various Sudanese states"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/thumb\/3d8a64efef1475b\/600\/418\" alt=\"United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS)\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Representatives of political and civil society groups convened in consultation sessions at UNITAMS&rsquo;&nbsp;headquarters in Khartoum last week. The UN-facilitated consultations on a political process for Sudan launched by SRSG Volker Perthes on January 8 continued to provide space for Sudanese stakeholders to present their views and visions on the way forward for&nbsp;democratic transition in Sudan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>During last week, SRSG Perthes led consultation sessions, along with UNITAMS teams&rsquo; support, with&nbsp;several groups&rsquo; representatives, including those from states outside Khartoum such as the&nbsp;<strong>Darfur Resistance Committees<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Darfur Women&rsquo;s Groups<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Darfur IDP representatives<\/strong>, Mr.&nbsp;<strong>Gibril&nbsp;Ibrahim<\/strong>, head of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the&nbsp;<strong>Resistance Committee&nbsp;and&nbsp;women&rsquo;s groups&nbsp;from&nbsp;South Kordofan.<\/strong>&nbsp;In addition, the UNITAMS held sessions with representatives from&nbsp;<strong>MANSAM<\/strong>, the&nbsp;<strong>Ba&rsquo;ath<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Arab&nbsp;Socialist Party<\/strong>, Mr.&nbsp;<strong>Alsadiq Samal<\/strong>, a father of a martyr in 2018; group representing a number of&nbsp;<strong>civil society organisations<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>young women civil society activists<\/strong>, the&nbsp;<strong>Unionist&nbsp;Alliance<\/strong>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<strong>Sudanese Teachers&rsquo; Association<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The UNITAMS initiative continues to fulfil the mission&rsquo;s mandate as stipulated in&nbsp;Security Council Resolution 2579 (2021), through facilitating a Sudanese-owned&nbsp;process on a way forward to address the current political impasse following the coup&nbsp;on 25 October.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;<em>We do not want to predict an outcome. These initial consultations will guide our next steps.<\/em>&rdquo;, reiterated SRSG Volker Perthes as UNITAMS prepare for a fresh rounds of consultation sessions&nbsp;with additional representatives of Sudan&rsquo;s political spectrum next week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS).<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-sm\"><b>Media files<\/b><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/aaf16a0d3959785\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/aaf16a0d3959785\" alt=\"United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS)\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/aaf16a0d3959785\">Download logo<\/a><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives of political and civil society groups convened in consultation sessions at UNITAMS&rsquo;&nbsp;headquarters in Khartoum last week. The UN-facilitated consultations on a political process for Sudan launched by SRSG Volker Perthes on January 8 continued to provide space for Sudanese stakeholders to present their views and visions on the way forward for&nbsp;democratic transition in Sudan.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-214873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/third-week-of-un-facilitated-consultations-for-a-political-process-for-sudan-broadens-engagement-of-groups-from-various-sudanese-states.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}