{"id":31082,"date":"2019-07-03T10:49:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T02:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=31082"},"modified":"2019-07-03T10:49:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T02:49:55","slug":"ethiopia-au-mediators-call-for-sudan-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=31082","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia, AU mediators call for Sudan talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/o0mfpfhk.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/o0mfpfhk.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KHARTOUM, July 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; African Union and Ethiopian mediators invited Sudan\u2019s ruling generals and protest leaders to resume talks, as they seek a breakthrough on creating a new governing body for the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The call to attend talks planned for Wednesday comes as tension remains high between the two sides after a deadly crackdown on June 3 on a protest camp that killed dozens and wounded hundreds in Khartoum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have invited the two parties for a meeting tomorrow (Wednesday), and we have fixed for them a time and place,\u201d said African Union envoy Mohamed El Hacen Lebatt at a joint press conference with his Ethiopian counterpart Mahmoud Dirir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He did not reveal the time and venue for the talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is not appropriate for political and security reasons to disclose the time and venue\u2026 but this invitation has been sent to both parties,\u201d Lebatt said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was still unclear whether the two groups had agreed to talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Negotiations between the generals and protest leaders collapsed in May over the make-up of the governing body and who should lead it \u2014 a civilian or a soldier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mediators have come up with a compromise to resolve the crisis that has rocked Sudan for months, following the military ouster of longtime leader Omar al-Bashir in April on the back of widespread protests against his rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe document has been presented to the two parties and they considered it as a good base for negotiations,\u201d Lebatt said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Ethiopian envoy Dirir cautioned that there remained \u201cone point where opinions are conflicting and that is the sovereign council,\u201d referring to the planned governing body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blueprint drafted by the mediators calls for a civilian-majority governing body. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHARTOUM, July 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; African Union and Ethiopian mediators invited Sudan\u2019s ruling generals and protest leaders to resume talks, as they seek a breakthrough on creating a new governing body for the country. The call to attend talks planned for Wednesday comes as tension remains high between the two sides after a deadly crackdown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31082"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}