A leader in the "Sumud" movement: Continuing the war will turn Sudan into warlord mini-states.

^{Khaled Youssef called for agreement on a new social contract (his official Facebook page).}

January 4, 2026 (PEN) Khalid Omar Youssef, a leader in the Civil Democratic Alliance of Revolutionary Forces – Sumud, warned that the continuation of the war in Sudan will inevitably lead to the fragmentation of the country into mini-states controlled by warlords, stressing that the signs of disintegration have become clear in the current scene, and that ignoring them “will not be beneficial.”

Youssef said in a post on his Facebook page that Sudan is not much different from the experiences of other regional African and Arab countries that faced, after independence, the problems of national integration within the framework of the modern state, noting that the rise of extremist movements in those experiences constituted one of the most prominent causes of civil wars, the disintegration of the social fabric, and regional and international polarization.

He explained that all these experiments ended with one result, describing it as the failure of the “dancing with the devil” strategy, stressing that the failure to weaken “extremist forces and strip them of the tools of violence and terrorism” necessarily leads to division and threatens regional security, considering that the real conflict is between “extremist forces and moderate forces.”

The leader of the “Sumud” alliance stressed that Sudan stands today at a crucial crossroads that cannot tolerate hesitation, calling for agreement on a new social contract that accommodates the country’s diversity and pluralism, and rejects the imposition of any unilateral visions by armed force.

Youssef concluded by emphasizing the need to establish the foundations of a genuine federal system, a peaceful transfer of power, and the achievement of justice and equity within a civil and democratic framework, warning against reproducing the experiences of military and Islamist rule, which he said brought nothing but "suffering and regret" to the Sudanese people.

_{Source: Social media}