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U.N. mediation in the weeks after the coup succeeded in
reinstating Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, but his resignation
last week deepened uncertainty around Sudan's political future
and a transition towards elections scheduled for 2023.
Neighbourhood-based resistance committees, political parties and
other pro-democracy groups have carried out an ongoing campaign
of protests under a "no negotiation" slogan, and crackdowns by
security forces have left at least 60 dead.
Unless a new course towards a transition and credible elections
can be charted, more instability within and beyond Sudanese
borders is likely, analysts and diplomats have said.
"All measures taken to date have not succeeded in restoring the
course of this transformation," U.N. Special Representative
Volker Perthes said in a statement announcing the launch of the
U.N.-facilitated process.
"The ... repeated violence against largely peaceful protesters
has only served to deepen the mistrust among all political
parties in Sudan," he added.
Sudan's military, armed movements, political parties, civil
society and resistance committees will be invited to
participate, the U.N. statement said.
(Reporting by Nafisa Eltahir; Editing by Helen Popper)
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