The Sudanese army said Wednesday it has accepted an invitation to resume US- and Saudi-brokered talks aimed at ending more than six months of conflict with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
The war between forces loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy, RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, has killed more than 9,000 people and displaced over 5.6 million since it erupted in April.
Previous mediation attempts have only succeeded in brief truces, and even those were systematically violated.
In a statement, the army said it had accepted an invitation from Saudi Arabia and the United States to travel to the Saudi city of Jeddah “out of a belief by the armed forces that negotiations is one of the means that may end the conflict”.
“The resumption of negotiations does not mean a halt of the national battle of dignity, for the defeat of the rebel militia,” the statement added.
The war in Sudan has decimated already fragile infrastructure, shuttered 80 percent of the country’s hospitals and plunged millions into acute hunger.
“For six months, civilians — particularly in Khartoum, Darfur and Kordofan — have known no respite from bloodshed and terror,” said UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths.
(AFP)
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