Umma Party leader Mubarak al-Fadil al-Mahdi urged Sudan’s SAF junta to accept the Quartet’s roadmap and abide by commitments signed in Jeddah and Manama, saying the “cursed war” has devastated the country and unleashed an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
In a post on X on Wednesday, al-Fadil called the SAF-controlled Foreign Ministry’s response to the Sept 12 peace and civilian-transition roadmap “confused and contradictory,” arguing it reflects the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood over the de facto authorities in Port Sudan.
He said the ministry welcomed any regional or international effort to bring peace, then rejected “foreign interference” and objected to language treating the SAF and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as parties to the war. Al-Fadil countered that SAF and the RSF already negotiated and co-signed the May 11, 2023 Jeddah agreement and the Jan 20, 2024 Manama “Principles and Foundations” document—signed, he noted, by Lt-Gen Shams al-Din Kabashi for the SAF and Lt-Gen Abdelrahim Dagalo for the RSF.
Al-Fadil said the ministry’s stance amounts to back-pedaling on those obligations “to serve the Muslim Brotherhood’s agenda,” alleging the movement seeks to prolong the conflict to monopolize power through its allies within the military.
He added that Islamists are the last to speak of sovereignty or purely “Sudanese solutions,” saying that during their three decades in power the country’s civil wars were repeatedly internationalized and resolved through agreements across African capitals.
