In the most violent day recorded in the last week despite the truce, The United States recognized on Wednesday the difficulty of finding a solution to the conflict in Sudan and stressed that, although the process should include as many voices as possible, it is difficult to involve the civilian population while the violence lasts.
“We and our partners continue to make it clear to the opposing parties led by the two generals that there can be no military solution to this crisis and that negotiations are the only way,” the Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs told the Senate Foreign Committee. Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland.
Sudan has been submerged in a humanitarian catastrophe since the fighting that began on April 25 between the Army and the Rapid Support Forces (FAR) paramilitary group, led respectively by General Abdelfatah al-Burhan and the commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo “Hemedti”.
The indirect dialogue undertaken between the two parties in Jeddah last Saturday thanks to the mediation of Saudi Arabia and the United States, and in which the UN also participates, has as its main objective to achieve a ceasefire that allows the flow of aid.
A ceasefire, according to Nuland, “long enough to allow the constant delivery of much-needed services.”
“This morning I spoke with our negotiators, who are cautiously optimistic. If this stage is successful, it would lead to extended talks with local, regional and international interlocutors towards a permanent cessation of hostilities and then a return to civilian rule,” he said.
The state representative made it clear, however, that “Until the violence stops and help arrives, a process involving civilians cannot be restored.”
“Sudan has enormous potential, but it has been weighed down by decades of authoritarianism, economic turmoil and civil war,” said Nuland, while the Democratic senator chris coons He insisted that a way must be found to involve not only regional actors but also the Sudanese population in the conversation.
The assistant administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Sarah Charlesadmitted that Washington’s ability to maintain “robust” support for the country is a challenge.
“Even before this crisis, Sudan was one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to Russia’s war against Ukraine due to its reliance on imports. We had already tried to expand our systems in Sudan. It was already going to be difficult to sustain that this year, ”he maintained.
The UN World Food Program (WFP) highlighted this Wednesday that the unleashed armed conflict in Sudan may drive acute food insecurity in the country to record levels, with more than 19 million people affectedtwo fifths of its population.
The Sudanese capital is the scene this Wednesday of the most violent clashes since last week between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces despite the seven-day truce that, like the previous ones, has been violated since the first hours of its entry into force by the opposing parties since last April 15.
The Army uses a large number of ground units inside the capital where violent clashes with heavy weapons between the Army and the FAR have been reported today in the north of the city of North Khartoum and in the East of the Nile, where there have also been bombings residents told the news agency EFE.
The Army’s attempts to advance were accompanied by an intense bombardment by Sudanese aircraft against FAR targets in Shambat, in North Khartoum, where large columns of smoke were seen from various positions, as well as in the center of Khartoum.
Strong clashes between the two military parties They also caused power outages in some areas.according to the sources.
Currently, representatives of the Army and the FAR are in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) to talk about a permanent truce, despite the fact that no details of the status of negotiations have been revealed in which neither side is willing to give in.
In this regard, the leader of the Sudanese Army, Abdelfatah al-Burhanaffirmed yesterday that there will be no solution to the conflict that “legitimizes” the FAR group, led by its rival Mohamed Hamdan Dagaloand that this should be an “Arab or African solution”.
The Jeddah dialogue, in which the UN also participates, has as its main objective to achieve a ceasefire that allows the flow of aid to the Sudanese in a country mired in a humanitarian catastrophe.
As a result of the conflict, more than 600 people have died and more than 5,000 others have been injured, while the clashes have caused the internal displacement of 700,000 Sudanese and the flight of more than 120,000 others, according to the UN.
(With information from EFE)
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