Sudan’s First Vice-President Bakri Hassan Saleh received a delegation of a breakaway faction of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM-Sudan) in the Presidential Palace in Khartoum on Monday.

Saleh and the JEM-Sudan ex-rebels, led by Bakhit Abdallah Abdel Karim (known as Dabajo) discussed the challenges facing the implementation of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD).

JEM-Sudan signed the DDPD in April 2013. The ex-combatants have had to wait until August this year before the implementation of the security arrangements was realised, and the procedure of their integration into the Sudan Armed Forces started.

The JEM-Sudan delegation discussed with the first vice-president the DDPD power-sharing protocol as well.

El Sadeg Yousef Zakaria, the spokesman for JEM-Sudan, informed Radio Dabanga after the meeting that “all obstacles threatening the realisation of the DDPD have been removed”.

JEM-Sudan is the group previously also known as JEM-Bashar, before the killing of leader Mohamed Bashar Ahmed in an ambush by JEM forces near the Sudan-Chad border in May 2013.

File photo: JEM-Sudan troops attending an integration ceremony in El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, on 24 August 2014 (Hamid Abdulsalam/Unamid)

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