A preparatory workshop on governance issues in eastern Sudan, organised by the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), concluded with several recommendations and discussed a "social reconciliation process". The issue of eastern Sudan is one of the five outstanding 'thorny' issues that still require negotiations for the Final Agreement between an alliance of civilian forces and Sudan's military junta.
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The head of the High Council of Beja Nazirs and Independent Chieftains, Sayed Tirik, has again threatened to announce self-determination for Red Sea state, Kassala, and El Gedaref, if the government in Khartoum does not respond to their demands for a separate platform on governance and development in eastern Sudan.
The High Council of Beja Nazirs and Independent Chieftains faction led by Ibrahim Adarob told Radio Dabanga that it was invited by the Trilateral Mechanism to participate in the upcoming Final Agreement negotiations but refused after not being included in the previous stages.
Forces of Freedom and Change-Democratic Block (FFC-DB) has hailed the appointment of Sayed Tirik, head of the mainstream High Council of Beja Nazirs and Independent Chieftains, as its deputy chair as “an excellent step to expanding political participation”, however the High Beja Nazirs Council-Adarob wing has voiced its disapproval at the appointment.