The act represents a serious violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the Spaniard wrote on Twitter on Monday evening. The security of diplomatic premises and staff is primarily the responsibility of the Sudanese authorities and is an obligation under international law.
Borrell did not provide any information about the type of attack or the perpetrator or perpetrators. He also left it unclear whether the ambassador was injured or escaped with a fright. Borrell only wrote that the attack had happened a few hours earlier. The EU will be represented in the north-east African country by Irish diplomat Aidan O’Hara. Diplomatic circles said in Brussels that evening that O’Hara was fine and had not been injured.
Shortly before, Borrell had announced that the EU was trying to influence the conflicting parties in the domestic power struggle in view of the heavy fighting in Sudan. Work is underway to persuade both sides to consider a humanitarian ceasefire, he said. The civilians urgently need a ceasefire.
At least 185 people were killed and 1,800 injured in recent fighting in Sudan, according to the United Nations on Monday. The long-simmering power struggle between the army under the command of ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of his deputy, Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, escalated over the weekend. Since then there has been heavy fighting in the country in north-east Africa, which has a population of around 46 million.
