KHARTOUM –Both factions of the High Council of Beja Nazirs and Independent Chieftains refuse to participate in the conference on governance in eastern Sudan starting in Khartoum today. Faki further said that a briefing on the outputs of the Cairo conference and the Beja Nazirs Council’s position will be held in the Friendship Hall on Tuesday. At the time, the Beja Nazirs Council was not included in the negotiations on the eastern Sudanese region. Not much of the JPA, including the Eastern Sudan protocol, has been implemented so far. The Beja Nazirs Council-Tirik wing repeated its threats to announce self-determination for eastern Sudan if the government does not respond to their demands for a separate platform and development in the marginalised eastern region.
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