WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed the need to urgently end the war in Sudan with Sudanese army chief General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan in a phone call on Tuesday, the State Department said.
The two also addressed ways to “enable unhindered humanitarian access, including cross border and cross line, to alleviate the suffering of the Sudanese people,” it said.
Sudan has been gripped since April 2023 by a civil war between the Sudanese army, led by Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
Thousands of civilians are estimated to have died.
Blinken discussed a resumption of peace negotiations with Burhan and the need to protect civilians and defuse hostilities in Al-Fashir, North Darfur, the State Department said.
Recent attacks around Al-Fashir have shattered a local truce that protected it from the wider war.
Egypt will host a conference next month bringing together Sudan’s civilian political groups with other regional and global parties, the Egyptian foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
The conference aims to produce an agreement between Sudan’s civilian groups on ways to build a comprehensive and permanent peace, it added.
Blinken discusses need to end Sudan war with top general
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Blinken discusses need to end Sudan war with top general
- Blinken discussed a resumption of peace negotiations with Burhan
- Recent attacks around Al-Fashir have shattered a local truce that protected it from the wider war
4 Syrian security personnel killed in attack in Raqqa
- Internal Security Forces reports that 1 of the attackers has been neutralized
- Second violent attack in northeast region within 48 hours
LONDON: Syrian authorities have reported that four security personnel died and two were injured during an attack on a government checkpoint in the city of Raqqa — located in the northeast of the country — on Monday.
The Internal Security Forces said that one of the attackers had been neutralized, and that security units were currently conducting a thorough sweep of the surrounding area to identify and eliminate the remaining members of the cell responsible for the attack, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency.
It marks the second violent attack in the region within 48 hours targeting the Internal Security Forces. The same checkpoint was attacked on Sunday, resulting in another operative being neutralized, as reported by SANA.
Raqqa was under Daesh control from 2014 to 2017. It was regarded as the group’s capital.
Government forces of the Syrian Arab Republic regained control of the region in January following a ceasefire and integration agreement with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
