Arab League to Mobilize Funds for DDR Projects in Sudan
16 February, 2016
KHARTOUM (SUDANOW) - The Arab League is planning to hold a donors' conference in the middle of this year for collecting funds for financing reconstruction and development in conflict-affected areas and the programmes of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) in Sudan.
Arab League representative in Sudan Salah Halima was on Tuesday reported by Sudan News Agency (SUNA) as saying at a meeting of the High Committee for Supporting the DDR Programmes with the Arab ambassadors to Khartoum on Monday night that a joint delegation of the Arab League and Sudan would tour a number of Arab countries to collect estimated at present at 145 million dollars in support of the DDR programmes in Sudan.
Halima indicated the importance of those programmes to avert the risk of possession of weapons by the former rebel fighters.
Sudanese International Cooperation Minister and Chairman of the High Committee Kamal Hassan Ali also warned at the meeting against leaving weapons in the hands of the former rebels and against failure to arrange their status.
This situation will subject the former rebels to being persuaded by the present rebels and by human traffickers and practitioners of cross-border crimes, he added.
For his part, DDR Commissioner General Salah al-Tayeb briefed the meeting on efforts so far taken by his body with regard to dealing with the former rebels who have joined the peace process in Darfur region.
The commissioner said the DDR Commission has so far demobilized 48,942 out of a total 129,000 former rebels and has reintegrated 34,964 of them. The Commission also reintegrated 2,317 soldier children and offered support to 24,624 non-soldier children, Tayeb said, adding that the Commission has managed to collect 5,000 pieces of weaponry in South and West Darfur states.
The Commissioner, in conclusion, told the meeting that the DDR Commission at present needs 145 million dollars for reintegration of more than 80,000 former rebel fighters.
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