Its not a palate.

Osman Fadlallah
He who thinks whats going on in Addis Ababa also has to audit his accounts. I never denied my support for freedom and change until some thought I was an affiliate, even though it never happened.

The supportive stance was not coming out of thin air, but if you look at the composition of that coalition at the time of its birth in January 2019, then it will be the largest conglomerate known in the Sudans recent history. Collecting different currents from the far left to the centre right, he deserved the unconditional authorization granted to him. When the Islamic regime fell, the discrepancies concealed by the common enemy emerged.

This conglomerate has shrunk and unquestionably exited influential forces, but it has maintained its dynamism and volatility with the storms that confronted it despite the newness of the experience of some of its components, and necessarily its leadership. But he kept manoeuvring, eluding and contemptuous, as I wanted him and him to play out of the circle of the possible. That region and that logic made him a sister to create friends and enemies together. The first of them wanted him to be a horn that shouted slogans that did not have the tools to get them out of the circle of the idea and into the space of the possible. Others thought in his flexibility that they could take away the objectives of the change from him in a piece, so that their child would say I see the Pharaoh and her naked. When their endeavours and bullets disillusioned with his target, they took his lead in prison.

These leaders entered and emerged from prison with the same controlled flexibility, known for their specific and demarcated objectives, producing a political process that would have brought the country to safety if it had not been for the bats of darkness that it had delivered without consideration of the bill to be paid by the citizen.

This coalition did not turn to despair, nor did it earn its feet a tidy, sophisticated and tired campaign, represented in an apparent war of swift support and subordination that led to the failure of all the organization to volunteer and not to push it into extremism and petrified attitudes.

The Alliance for Freedom and Change dealt with war with the same open mind. He did not dance the rampage dance to which they wanted him to be a party by pushing him to a specific destination they painted for him. He found manoeuvre and play in the mined stadiums, picking himself a path that had not been curtailed for such months of distress.

Now it brings together all the Sudanese for a stronger, more capable, broader-based and more thought-provoking war agenda. This new coalition may cost him his name, which is credited with overthrowing Sudans most violent, violent and longest-running theocratic dictatorship after Mahdia.

But indisputably, what is now being created is stronger because it will benefit from that experience and inspire his future career, and it includes those leaders who have been able to maintain their balance at the most violent junctures. His other members, who were far from or reserved for that experience, are now in the warm-up phase and coming up with ideas and energy, will make the next stronger and more influential in this war phase and beyond, and tomorrow is close to his sight.

Yes, what started in Addis Ababa now is the final chapter of the Alliance for Freedom and Change, but it is a new beginning of the process of real change. The spirit that prevailed in the preparatory meetings and the approach to addressing differences through democratic methods heralded a birth that would have the supreme say in the countrys future.

We conclude by thinking that what is going on in Addis Ababa is a mere name change that has to be audited.