The UN Security Council earlier this week received a positive report from Sudanese Prime Minister Kamil Idris, according to Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the secretary-general of the Arab League.
The 22-member league praised its “highly significant political, humanitarian, and security messages” and demanded “positive engagement” with the plan, according to Gheit on Wednesday.
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Idris, the transitional civilian government in Sudan, had earlier told the UNSC on Monday that the government’s proposal was “homemade,” rather than “imposed on us,” in an indirect reference to the so-called Quad, which includes the United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates.
He told the UNSC’s 15 members that a truce would have “no chance of success” unless the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were confined to camps and disarmed, and that the group had been in conflict with the military since April 2023.
Al-Basha Tibiq, an adviser to the RSF commander, rejected Idris’ plan, saying that the idea of the group withdrawing was “closer to fantasy than politics.” The RSF agreed to the request for a humanitarian truce back in November.
Tibiq was quoted as saying in an RSF statement that the plan was “nothing more than a recycling of outdated exclusionary rhetoric” that was unintelligible from General Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan’s position in an RSF statement posted on Facebook.
Al-Burhan had previously rejected the Quad’s request for a humanitarian truce, claiming that UAE involvement meant the plan was biased and favored the paramilitaries over the army.
The UAE has long refuted claims that it funds and arms the RSF. It called the Sudanese decision to bring a case against it to the International Court of Justice a “cynical publicity stunt” in March.
In the Kordofan region, fighting reaches a high volume.
The conflict, which involved the army chief al-Burhan and RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo, erupted after a power struggle between the army chief al-Burhan and RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo, has claimed tens of thousands of lives and caused about 14 million people to flee.
After an 18-month siege that had been held there for an entire year, the RSF  finally took control of the city of el-Fasher in the western Darfur region in October.
In its takeover of the city, the paramilitary group is accused of carrying out numerous sexual assaults, kidnappings, and mass murders.
As fighting continued, Idris proposed a solution, with the RSF claiming that Alouba, a strategic town in the Kordofan region, had regained control of the town.
1,700 people had fled Sudan’s White Nile state, east of the Kordofan region, according to Sudanese officials, many of whom were heading to Kosti.
According to Mohamed Vall, a journalist from Kosti, the city was already home to about 2 million refugees and internally displaced people and was currently “under incredible, huge stress” trying to accommodate the new arrivals.
The authorities are urging the international community and any other local or international organizations to help with this situation, particularly [given] the severe cuts in funding for the UN organizations specialized in providing] aid in Sudan, Vall said.
The Sudanese army and its allies seized the areas of Abu Qamra and Ambro, which the RSF claimed had advanced in North Darfur, in addition to other developments.
The Sudanese army, for its part, claimed to have shelled two Kadugli, South Kordofan areas and that it had destroyed an RSF convoy in North Darfur state.
General Muawiya Hamad, the commander of the army’s 22nd Brigade, was killed in Babnusa earlier this month, according to a source from the army.
US deputy ambassador to the UN, Jeffrey Bartos, pleaded with “both belligerents” to accept the Quad’s request for a humanitarian truce as the fighting escalated on Monday in preparation for an UNSC meeting with Idris.
Source: Aljazeera
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