Minnawi Rejects recruitment campaigns in Darfur, hints at retracting from Security Arrangments process.

The Citizen

Leader of Sudan Liberation Army/Movement (SLAM), Governor of Darfur Region,  Minni Arko Minnawi, announced his rejection to the ongoing recruitment campaigns in Darfur, revealing their to disarming his combatants if the recruitment campaigns continue.

“There is military recruitment and mobilization in Darfur. This is completely unacceptable,” Minnawi said in remarks delivered before the closing session of the Conference on the Return of Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees, in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state on Friday.

He affirmed that such operations violate the Juba Peace Agreement.

“Any armed movement or regular forces signatory of the peace agreement does not need new recruitment or mobilization of fighters. The inclusion of new fighters means preparation for war,” he added.

Minnawi further said he got reports about “the return of armed militias” that supported the regime of the ousted President Omer al-Bashir, during the years of fighting in the Darfur region.