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| Africa Horn |
| JEM, Others Harden Stance on Dialogue |
| 2007-10-26 |
| The Islamist Justice and Equality Movement announced yesterday that it would boycott Darfur peace talks due to open in Libya at the weekend, bringing to seven the number of rebel groups intending to stay away. The JEM said it had taken its decision in the light of consultations with six other rebel groups which announced after preliminary talks hosted by the African Union and the United Nations on Tuesday that they would not take part in the new talks with the Sudanese government. “The movement is not ready to take part in the masquerade that will turn Sirte into a slave market and a place of renunciation of peoples’ rights,” said a JEM statement issued on the group’s website. UN and AU mediation “has not produced a clear and precise vision of how to relaunch the peace process,” said the statement signed by spokesman Ahmed Hussein Adam and issued in the southern capital of Juba. Besides the JEM, headed by Khalil Ibrahim, six factions of the secular Sudan Liberation Movement have said they will not attend the talks. The other recalcitrant groups are under the command of Ahmed Abdel Shafi, Ibrahim Ahmed Ibrahim, Jar Al-Nabi Abdel Karim and Mohammed Aki Kelai as well as the Northern Command faction and another group of west Darfuri rebels. |
| Posted by:Fred |