Efforts have continued by the international community towards lasting peace to the ongoing crisis in Sudan. Leaders of the Arab League on Tuesday met a representative of Sudanese military leader, General Abdel Fattah Burhan.
The meeting took place at the Arab League’s headquarters in Cairo.
As moves to de-escalate the conflict continue, there has also been a new coordinated effort by regional body, African Union, in collaboration with the United Nations and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to end the crisis.
AU Commission’s Special Envoy to the Sudan, Mohamed El Hacen Lebatt, at a news briefing announced that the Union had “agreed on the necessity to intensify, collectively and individually, all our effort to reach, as soon as possible, a complete and conditional, efficient, inclusive ceasefire all over Sudan”.
“We have agreed on the necessity to intensify, collectively and individually, all our effort to reach, as soon as possible, a complete and conditional, efficient, inclusive ceasefire all over Sudan.
“They (AU, IGAD, Ed.) agreed to intensify, by all means, the effort to bring as soon as possible the humanitarian support for the population inside Sudanese cities and all the borders of all neighbouring countries where thousands of Sudanese have fled”, said Lebatt.
Meanwhile, the special envoy of Sudan’s Sovereignty Council, Dafa’alla Al-Haj Ali, while speaking after a meeting with the Arab League, insisted that the clash remains an “internal matter” and warned against external interference.
“I am talking to you now, and there are contacts regarding the completion of this truce, but we want this truce to be with the participation of the political institutions to which we belong, the first of which is the Arab League and also the African Union, but that it takes place with their approval and in all its details, and we do not accept anything imposed on us by whichever direction“, said Dafa’alla Al-Haj Ali.
The UN has warned that the ongoing conflict can worsen with about 15 million people in the country already faced with hunger. According to a local report, the death toll in the violent fighting has risen to 528, with 4,599 injured.