Mohamed Elshabik is a humanitarian professional, civil society, and political activist engaged in a number of civilian-led groups seeking to end the fighting and restore civilian rule in Sudan. He served as Undersecretary for the Ministry of Labour and Social Development during the Sudan’s first Transitional Government (2019-2021).
Sudan’s civil society has proven it can mobilize for peace in a militarized context; a humanitarian truce would create greater space for them to operate.
For civil war ceasefire talks in Geneva to succeed in alleviating the suffering of the Sudanese people, negotiators must learn lessons from the past.
