The Sudanese government and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), an umbrella grouping of opposition groups, signed a political agreement in Cairo ahead of sealing a final deal, diplomats said on Monday.
”The two parties have reached an agreement on all political, constitutional and legislative questions defining the steps towards democratic change in Sudan,” said Sudan’s charge d’affaires in Cairo, Mohammed Abdallah, quoted by the Mena news agency.
The talks leading up to the agreement with the country’s largest exiled political bloc were held under the auspices of Egypt, whose intelligence chief Omar Suleiman took part in the signing ceremony.
A final accord is to be signed on February 12 in Cairo, said NDA vice-president Adel Rahman Saeed.
The NDA is mainly comprised of northern organisations but it earlier this month signed a historic deal with the Sudan government to end Africa’s longest running civil war.
The membership includes groups such as the Umma Party of Sadiq al-Mahdi, whose democratically-elected government President Omar al-Beshir toppled in a bloodless coup in 1989. – Sapa-AFP