April 24, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — The Chairman of Darfur’s Regional
Authority, (RTA) Tijani el-Sissi on Tuesday warned that lack of money
might lead to the collapse of peace in Darfur.
- DRA chairman, Tijani Sissi (AP)
In a briefing to the Sudanese parliament over the implementation of
the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) he signed with the
government in July 2011, Sissi said that Khartoum did not yet pay the
200 million dollars needed as a capital to establish Darfur Development
Bank (DDB).
The bank is a Qatari initiative to assist development and
reconstruction efforts in Darfur after the signing of the DDPD. It is
supposed to receive all the financial donations and grants dedicated to
Darfur development.
The DDB was also supposed to lead a Joint Assessment Mission’s
activities to indentify recovery and development projects to be
implemented in the arid and devastated region.
The leader of the former rebel group, Liberation and Justice Movement
(LJM), directed a heavy criticism pointing an accusing finger to the
Finance Ministry for failing to pay the $200 millions.
"The government has not paid any penny for the bank. We should be
more serious if we want peace in the region,” he said “money is a very
important start for the bank. And even God put the word money in the
Holy Quran."
He said that the lack of funding led to postpone the two conferences
on reconciliation among Darfurians and the voluntary return of the
internally displaced people and the refugees.
The Sudanese government is facing economic crisis since the
independence of South Sudan last July, taking over 70% of the country’s
oil reserves. Also
The DRA chief stressed that the countries pledged to support the
peace agreement should pay what they promised to during the negotiations
in the Qatari capital Doha.
The international community pledged over $ 800 million and Qatar said it will pay two billions for Darfur development projects.
In 2006 the Sudanese government and the Sudan Liberation Movement of
Mini Minawi signed a peace deal in the Nigerian capital Abuja, but later
withdrew in 2010.
The former rebel leader said he will travel on the 1st of April to
Qatar to discuss with officials there on how to move the peace agreement
further.
Supported by the international community, the DDPD is seen by many
opposition forces as having good potential to bring peace in the region
and end the nine-year conflict in Darfur where over 300.000 people died
according to the UN estimations.
However major rebel groups rejected the deal or did not take part in
the Doha process. Since November 2011 three main rebel groups
established an alliance with the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement –
North aiming to topple the government.
The Sudanese legislators, supported Sissi’s call and urged the
government to honor its financial commitments in order to facilitate the
return of refugees and IDPs and to launch development projects there.
Ismail Hussein, an MP from the Popular Congress Party and head of the
opposition caucus in the assembly, told the house he feels pity over
the fate of the Doha Document for Peace, calling on Sudanese officials
to be more credible.
“If we do not become more honest with such serious issues, this DDPD
will face the same fate of Mini Minawi peace deal, because of lack of
trust between the two sides," Ismail said.
The Darfur Peace Agreement or Abuja deal was signed on 5 May 2006
between the government and a faction of Sudan Liberation Movement led by
Minni Minnawi. However the deal collapsed in 2010 as the parties failed
to implement the security arrangements.
Sudan’s justice minister, Mohamed Bushara Dousa told the lawmakers
that his ministry finalized the draft of DDB bill, and filed it to the
Council of Ministers before to submit it to the parliament.
"The Darfur issue had exhausted the country and brought us a lot of
problems," said the minister who belongs to the troubled region,
emphasizing that the different institutions should work together to
fully implement the Doha deal.
(ST)
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