Abdalla Hamdok (chair, Sumoud civilian-democratic coalition; former PM) — Sumoud's founding statement, Feb 2025 (via Sudans Post): democratic civil forces must keep an independent path, refuse to side with any party in the war, protect civilians, and push for an urgent political end to the war. (The civilian pole vs Burhan's army and Hemedti's RSF.)

Sumoud rejected the idea of forming a government-in-exile, opting instead to focus on building a broad democratic front within Sudan to address the ongoing conflict.

We firmly believe that democratic civil forces must maintain an independent path, refrain from siding with any party in the war, and avoid any involvement in it. Our mission is to oppose any actions or rhetoric that threaten Sudan’s unity or tear apart its social fabric, while tirelessly working to protect civilians, confront human rights violations, address the humanitarian crisis, and push for an urgent end to the war through a political solution that addresses the root causes of the crisis and leads to the establishment of the Sudanese state with sustainable and just peace,

[Source is in English (Sudans Post), reproducing the coalition's statement; the original was likely issued in Arabic. Editorial context, not a translation.] Declared position of the civilian-democratic camp led by Abdalla Hamdok — Sudan's prime minister of the 2019–2021 transitional government, ousted in the October 2021 military coup. After the Taqaddum (Tagadom) opposition bloc he had led split in February 2025 over whether to form a government-in-exile, Hamdok was chosen to chair the new "Sumoud" (Resilience) coalition, the Civil Democratic Alliance of Revolutionary Forces. The quoted founding statement sets out Sumoud's mission: an independent civilian-democratic path that refuses to side with either belligerent in Sudan's 2023– civil war — the Sudanese Armed Forces under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces under Hemedti — and focuses on protecting civilians, confronting human-rights violations, and pushing for an urgent political end to the war. This completes the dataset's picture of Sudan's three poles: the civilian-democratic camp (Hamdok), the army (Burhan), and the RSF (Hemedti). [Axes: democracy, regime-stance, civil-liberties.]