The US government has expressed “cautiously optimistic” about a possible ceasefire in Sudan. “I spoke to our negotiators this morning, who are cautiously optimistic,” Victoria Nuland, the State Department’s third most senior official, said today. According to a UN spokesman, United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths had previously outlined proposals for how both sides could guarantee safe passage for aid supplies.
Since Saturday, representatives of the parties to the conflict, the army and the RSF militia, have been discussing a ceasefire with international mediation in the Saudi Arabian Jeddah, but so far have made no progress.
In recent talks, the first goal, Nuland said, was to agree on a declaration of humanitarian principles, “and then to reach a ceasefire that lasts long enough to allow much-needed goods to continue to flow into the country.” Keep this truce, work towards a permanent end to hostilities.
Meanwhile, fighting in Sudan continued unabated. Eyewitnesses told AFP about artillery fire, explosions and new airstrikes. According to the non-governmental organization ACLED, more than 750 people have been killed in the fighting in Sudan since mid-April between the troops of army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). and over 5,000 others injured, mostly in Khartoum and the western Darfur region.