Non-aggression document by the components of the Misterei region (West Darfur Misterei Agreement)

  • Country/entity
    Sudan
    Darfur
  • Region
    Africa (excl MENA)
    Africa (excl MENA)
  • Agreement name
    Non-aggression document by the components of the Misterei region (West Darfur Misterei Agreement)
  • Date
    15 Dec 2021
  • Agreement status
    Multiparty signed/agreed
  • Interim arrangement
    Yes
  • Agreement/conflict level
    Intrastate/local conflict ( Sudan Conflicts (1955 - ) )
  • Stage
    Framework/substantive - partial
  • Conflict nature
    Inter-group
  • Peace process
    Sudan Local Processes
  • Parties
    The list of signatories:

    Sultan Saad Abd al-Rahman Bahr al-Din

    Colonel Musa Hamid

    Representatives of four armed movements; JEM (Justice and Equality Movement), GSLF (Gathering of the Sudan Liberation Forces), Sudanese Alliance and Sudan Liberation Army / Minni Minawi (SLA/MM).

    Mustafa al-Jamil

    Badr Ishaq Ushar

    Tijani al-Tahir Karshum

    Muhammad Adam Yahya
  • Third parties
    Witnessed by the Sultan Bahr al-Din, Colonel Musa Hamid Duday, the representatives of JEM (Justice and Equality Movement), GSLF (Gathering of the Sudan Liberation Forces), Sudanese Alliance and Sudan Liberation Army / Minni Minawi (SLA/MM)
  • Description
    A short inter-communal local agreement between communities of Masturei and armed groups to cease forms of attack and open roads and market spaces. The agreement is an iterative dialogue involving draft agreement among armed forces representatives and representatives of JEM, GSLF, the Sudanese Alliance an the SLA/MM followed by a signed agreement involving signatories from all sides. The agreement states disputes should be resolved through legal process.

Local agreement properties

  • Process type
    Formal structured process
  • Rationale
    The agreement makes reference to following a model of iterative draft agreement and wider party signed agreement process. The agreement makes reference to the use of the same 'mechanism' used in Jebel Moon after inter-communal violence in July 2021 with increased violence breaking out in November. The agreement is supported by a witness and 'approved' by the Governor for West Darfur.
  • Is there a documented link to a national peace process?
    No
  • Link to national process: articulated rationale
    No clear reference in the text or from further research to indicate any link. The process is a regional effort to deal with ongoing violence in Darfur following disillusionment among Darfuri communities following the transition and Juba agreement of October 2020.
  • Name of Locale
    Misterei
  • Nature Of Locale
    Region
  • GPS Lat/Long (DD)
    13.125300, 22.158050
  • Participant type
    Local armed group
    Regional state actor
  • Mediator, facilitator or similar
    No mention of mediator or similar

Local issues

  • Ritual/prayer and process (including use of scripture)
    Page 1, Signed Agreement:

    Signed agreement:
    In the Name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
    The Sovereign Council
    The Darfur region
    West Darfur State
  • Grievance List
    Page 1, Draft Agreement:

    We, the undersigned, representing the social components in the Misterei area in West Darfur state, pledge, to abide and obligate all our parties not to attack. We pledge to open markets and roads and abide by this.
  • Cattle rustling/banditry

    No specific mention.

  • Social cover

    No specific mention.

Annex 9 – A Local Peace Agreement, West Darfur

Below, the non-aggression document by the components of the Misterei region.

This model

is being used as a mechanism, already introduced in Jebel Moon, for local conflict-dispute

resolution and social cohesion for peaceful co-existence.

Misterei, Beida locality, 15 December 2021.

Draft Agreement

“We, the undersigned, representing the social components in the Misterei area in West Darfur

state, pledge, to abide and obligate all our parties not to attack.

We pledge to open markets

and roads and abide by this.

In the event of any breach of this commitment, any party will be

legally responsible”

(Then follows the list of signatories, with the names of the Sultan Saad Abd al-Rahman Bahr

al-Din, Colonel Musa Hamid and the representatives of four armed movements, Mustafa al-Jamil, Badr Ishaq Ushar, Tijani al-Tahir Karshum, Muhammad Adam Yahya)

Signed agreement:

In the Name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

The Sovereign Council

The Darfur region

West Darfur State

We, the undersigned, representing the social components in the Misterei area in West Darfur

state, pledge to open markets and roads, and in the event of a breach of this document, the

party which violated it will be legally responsible.

(Then follow thirty signatures from each side;

witnessed by the Sultan Bahr al-Din, Colonel

Musa Hamid Duday, the representatives of JEM, GSLF, Sudanese Alliance an d SLA/MM;

approved by the Governor of West Darfur General Khamis Abdallah Abkar).

Source:

https://www.assayha.net/86777/;

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