Conference on the Peaceful Coexistence and mending of the Social Fabric

Conference on the Peaceful Coexistence and        mending of the Social Fabric to the areas of Kass, South and West Jebel Marra

An Agreement Document to mend the Social Fabric 

Conference on the Peaceful Coexistence Praise be to God and his success, that an agreement    was reached between the parties

which gathered from the committees for peaceful coexistence in Kass, Nyama, South

and West of Jebel Marra, and they have agreed on the followings :-

First: We affirm the freedom of the movement of the civilian and the practice of his/her agricultural, pastoral, commercial and livelihood activities, regardless of his/her religion, race or tribe within the liberated territories as long as he/she adheres to the laws and regulations of the movement in the areas under its control.

Second: We emphasize the necessity of rejecting hate speech and stopping all aspects of hostilities that demean human dignity

Third: Problems and incidents that occur between the parties shall be resolved customarily through specialized community committees, away from blocking roads and pastures and attacking on civilians and their properties.

Fourth: The committee’s future vision for the peaceful coexistence was determined in

the following four axes:-

1- Roads

2- Markets

3- Pastures

4- Farmlands2

1- The Main and Secondary Roads

1- All main and secondary roads leading to and from all areas shall be open before

the movement of civilians’ commercial vehicles to transport goods and

merchandise commodities, carrying civilians and allow passing of convoys of humanitarian organizations.

2- To organize gates and security checkpoints on the roads according to the

Followings:-

A- Reducing and legalizing the gates and security checkpoints on the main roads to the minimum possible

B- Identifying the official gates and checkpoints with specific labels and numbers

C- The officials of the security gates and checkpoints must be formally affiliated

to one of the two institutions either the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) or the Rapid Support Forces (RSFs)

D- Non discrimination between the tribes in the gates and security checkpoints

E- To put specific tariff for vehicles at the gates according to their load

F- Repudiate hat speech and racism on the roads and at the gates

G- Not to attack civilians by beating, torturing, kidnapping or plundering in all

roads

2- The Markets

All markets shall be gradually open to civilians according to the following

regulations:-

A- The civilians must abide by not carrying fire arms, wearing turban /a piece of

cloth which wrapped around the head that hide the wearer’s face ( Kadamoul) or ride motorbikes

B- Only civil vehicles and trucks are allowed to enter

C- Prohibition of trading in all types of forbidden items, such as narcotics,

alcohol, prohibited body creams and expired consumer goods3

D- Opening additional markets to provide goods and merchandise commodities

from neighboring countries and the general trade exchange

3- Pasture Protection

A- Grazing is permitted in areas which allocated for grazing ,away from the

military defenses, at a distance of three kilometers in all directions

B- Pastoralists are allowed to water from the known water wells that are

designated along pasture tracks

C- In case of any attack on a pastoralist or the theft or assault of his livestock, the

responsibility falls on the party that has a security control over the area, and the matter shall be dealt with through the social fabric committee, within whose jurisdiction the incident occurs

D- Grazing is allowed on rain- fed farmlands after the end of the agricultural season and the beginning of the releasing of livestock period ( Talaga) on the

first of February

E- Grazing is not permitted at all in the irrigated summer farming or orchard gardens

4- The Rainfall Agricultural Season

1- A sub – committee to protect the agricultural season from the farmers and pastoralists shall be formed to perform the following tasks:-

A- Assessing the damage to the farms and compensating them.

B- Establishing of corrals for the lost livestock and setting a specific tariff for them

C- To determine fines on those who deliberately transgress on farms

D- To identify pastures and tracks for the pastoralists, away from farmlands until the end of the rainy agricultural season

E- The rain-fed agricultural season and its protection shall continue until the beginning of the livestock releasing period (Talaga) on the first of February in each year4

F- The irrigated summer farming and orchard gardens has no release period

The parties further agreed on and affirmed the following points:-

1- The crime shall be dealt with like a dog that follows its owner and has nothing to do with the tribe

2-The dialogue should be an approach and behavior to resolve problems that occur

in the community

3- The crime should not be hidden by the tribe

4- The committees must work to build trust among the tribes

5- Addressing the issue of burned villages and nomad’s dwellings (Furgan) and the

looted funds through various committees

6- To tackle the issue of Kalokitting road

7- Facilitating the entry of tribes into Tur town to check on their stores and shops

8- The demand of the social fabric committee of Kass for the necessity of

withdrawing the defense post from Fuguri Mountain to Tur is to be referred to

the military leadership of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army

Finally: All parties must adhere to what has been agreed upon, with the necessity for

the existence of a committee to monitor the implementation of this agreement.

May God grant us Success5

The names of those who signed the agreement on behalf of the social fabric committees

of Kass, South and West Jebel Marra

On behalf of the social fabric committee of Kass, and South Jebel Marra

1- Sheikh/ Musa Shatta, head of the committee

2- Omda / Hashim Musa Mohammed, the Omda which administer Dar Wanna

3- Omda / Khidir Ali Abdelrahman , Omda of Tur area

4- Ustaz/ Abdulhamid Zakaria Isshaq, head of the Fur tribe’s Shura Council

5- Hussein Yousif, Surrogate Omda of Al- Iraigat tribe

6- Musa Muayad, a member of the committee

7- Al Amir/ Mohammedain Yagoub , a member of the committee

8- Al – Haj Siddiq Ibrahim, a member of the committee

On behalf of the social fabric committee of West Jebel Marra ( Tur, Nyerteti

and Turdi)

1- Omda/ Issa Hassan Arbab Yousif, Omda of Gubo area

2- Omda/ Al Rashid Mohammed Issa, Omda of Kebe ( Nyerteti)

3- Omda/ Abdalla Khamis Issa, Omda of Turdi area

4- Shartai/ Yasir Hassan Abaker, Shartai of Dar Marri

5- Yahya Sharif Gadar,head of the Zaghawa Tribe’s Shura Council

6- Adam Ibrahim Adam, surrogate administration of Gimir Tribe

7- Yagoub Ismail Mohammed, head of Tur committee

8- Musa Zakaria Adam Hamza, head of Turdi area committee

9- Yousif Abdella Abdulrasoul, member of the committee

13th of July 2024