The parties to the framework agreement expect to resolve the security and military reform file by reaching an agreement on it in the next few days in preparation for the final signing and as a prelude to the formation of a civil government. In the same regard, the armed forces took a step in this file by forming technical committees for the security and military reform workshop, whose sessions will be closed. Despite these steps, the file is still It is surrounded by many challenges and obstacles for reasons that observers see as related to the military-military conflict on the one hand, and the military with the civilian component on the other hand, as well as another conflict with parties that are not part of the framework agreement.
The armed forces formed three committees for a workshop on security and military reform and security arrangements, supervised by Lieutenant General Abbas Hassan “Al-Darouti”. 2020.
An informed source told “Sudan Tribune” that the armed forces have formed three committees headed by an officer with the rank of brigade and supervising them, and coordinating between them the Darouti team for the planned workshop.
The source confirmed that the committees have been working for more than a month on merger files, security arrangements, and security and military reform.
And participating in the committees, according to the source, are representatives of the police services and the General Intelligence Service, with two officers at the rank of major general.
The source pointed out that the armed forces were “well prepared” for the security and military reform workshop, by forming committees at a high level of professionalism, headed by an officer with the rank of Staff Lieutenant General.
At the same time, he stressed that the merger and demobilization process will affect the Rapid Support Forces and the armed movements, according to a purely technical vision.
It is noteworthy that the meeting of the Guest House, which was held yesterday between the President of the Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, his deputy, Lieutenant General Muhammad Hamdan Daglo, the signatory parties to the “framework” and the facilitators of the dialogue, discussed some arrangements for the security and military reform workshop scheduled within five workshops related to the ongoing political process. The meeting agreed to complete the convening of the Justice and Transitional Justice and Security and Military Reform conferences before the start of the next month of Ramadan.
And because the file is related to the formation of a unified national and professional army in a country that suffers from a large number of armed movements and militias, in addition to the defective combat doctrine that was instilled in the army during the years of Islamist rule, the file is fraught with complications, especially since the definition of reform was not agreed upon between the military and civilians.
And goes in this direction military expert and strategic Major General M d. Amin Al-Majzoub emphasized that there is a problem with reform, pointing out that the term has a vagueness in what civilians want from reform and what the military understand from this term, categorically that it is a technical process that will be left for the future.
Al-Majzoub explained in his interview with African Meters that the security and military reform workshop will be concerned with merging the Rapid Support Forces and the armed movements forces. Hello Juba.
On the other hand, observers believe that the different political incubators or allies of the military may complicate the task of reaching a national army and reduce the chances of success of the workshop, which was confirmed by political analyst Othman Al-Fateh during his interview with “African Meters”, pointing out that there is a major disagreement between the military about the timing Merge scheduler.
Al-Fateh noted that the presence of a civilian government first would help the success of the agreement as a whole between the military and civilians, considering its existence as a nucleus for the implementation of the agreement on the ground.
He continued, saying: There is a desire from all parties to move forward with the agreement and complete it in terms of the fact that the current situation with its worsening crises is not in the interest of anyone.
