‘No negotiation, no truce’ with RSF, says senior Sudan official

As fighting continues to ravage Sudan, a senior official in the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC) has ruled out any talks with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

The deputy chairman of TSC, Malik Agar Ayyir, said in a statement released by the Ministry of Culture, Media and Tourism on Thursday that there is no truce and no negotiations with an occupier.

He refuted the claim that the war aims to achieve “democracy” when speaking to ministers and state officials in Port Sudan, the city where the government is based. He instead referred to the conflict as a “conflict over resources and a desire to change Sudan’s demographics” and cited an opportunity to foster national cohesion.

The UN Security Council heard from Sudan’s Prime Minister Kamil Idris shortly after his country’s nearly three-year war was proposed.

The plan mandates that RSF fighters must leave vast tracts of land that they have taken into force in Sudan’s western and central regions in accordance with the army and the government’s positions.

Before those who are not charged with war crimes can be reintegrated into society, they would then need to be interned and disarmed.

Al-Basha Tibiq, a top adviser to commander Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo, has repeatedly criticized the RSF for calling it “closer to fantasy than politics.”

RSF reports increases

As the RSF consolidates its hold over captured territory and intensifies attacks, the conflict, which has forced 14 million people to flee for good.

International aid organizations working on the ground claim that RSF fighters have continued to carry out mass killings, systematic sexual assault, and body burying and burning in Darfur as a cover-up for the evidence of war crimes over the past few months.

El-Fasher, the state capital of North Darfur, was captured in October, only to become worse for the humanitarian situation there.

The RSF announced on Thursday that its forces had taken control of North Darfur’s Abu Qumra region.

According to the group’s statement, they “have continued their successful advancement to the Um Buru area, where they have completely liberated these areas.”

The RSF claimed that its fighters’ main priority is to “protect civilians and put an end to the presence of remnants of armed pockets and mercenary movements” in spite of mounting evidence of widespread atrocities committed in western Sudan.