Tasis Refuses Addis, Joining Hamdok’s Bloc and al-Nur on the Same Boycott List
The RSF-aligned Founding Sudan Coalition declined the invitation to the Addis Ababa consultations, leaving a process now refused by pro-RSF, anti-war and non-aligned armed constituencies at once.
Sudan Tribune reported over the weekend that the Founding Sudan Coalition, known as Tasis, declined an invitation to join peace consultations in Addis Ababa, citing what it called procedural flaws. Tasis is the political alliance aligned with the Rapid Support Forces; Hemedti announced his devolution of operational command to field commanders on 27 July after a security meeting with the coalition’s partners. The refusal places Tasis on a boycott list that already contained the anti-war Somoud coalition led by former prime minister Abdalla Hamdok and the Sudan Liberation Movement led by Abdel Wahid al-Nur. The stated reason is Tasis’s own characterisation and no independent account of the procedural objection was retrieved. Ahmed Tugud is identified as the coalition’s spokesman in Sudan Tribune’s photograph, but that image dates from Addis Ababa on 6 June and carries no statement from this weekend.
The Addis track sits alongside, not inside, the American-led effort. On 14 July Sudan Tribune reported that the RSF had submitted its answer to proposals carried by Massad Boulos, US senior advisor for Arab and African affairs, accepting a three-month humanitarian truce while rejecting demands to withdraw from captured territory; Sudan’s Security and Defence Council, chaired by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, had submitted its own response two days earlier. Critical Threats summarised the standing positions on 2 July: the RSF conditions peace on excluding SAF-linked Islamists and curbing the army’s postwar role, while the SAF rules out negotiations short of RSF demobilisation and surrender. Ayin, citing an unnamed senior EU diplomat five months ago, described a Quad text of ten or eleven pages answered by an SAF counter-proposal running past fifty.
Assessment: A process rejected simultaneously by the RSF’s political wing, by the civilians who oppose both belligerents, and by an armed movement aligned with neither is not suffering from a hostile flank. It is suffering from an absent constituency. Watch what the boycott costs each refuser: nothing. Tasis loses no leverage by staying away while its patron’s commanders are being told to launch operations without central orders — and that devolution matters here more than at the front, because a force with no single operational address also has no single signature to collect. Distrust any readout from Addis that describes attendance as participation.