US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Sudanese generals controversial agreed a three-day ceasefire from Tuesday to try to end the fighting.
“Following intense negotiations over the past 48 hours, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have agreed to a nationwide ceasefire from midnight April 24, which will last 72 hours”Blinken said in a statement two hours before the truce took effect.
“During this period the United States Wait that the Army and the FSR comply fully and immediately with the ceasefire,” he added.
The Secretary of State also indicated that the United States is working with its allies to launch a “commission” to negotiate a permanent cessation of hostilities in Sudan.
Blinken had already spoken to his Kenyan counterpart on the Sudanese conflict on Monday and recently he multiplied his contacts with rival generalsas well as with the countries of the region and with the African Union.
The exit
Different countries carry out repatriation operations of his compatriots or his diplomatic staff present in Sudan, where the war between the Army and the paramilitaries has been raging since 15 April.
The massive exodus of foreigners accelerated on Monday in Sudan, rocked by fierce fighting between the army and a paramilitary group that has brought the country to the edge of the “precipice”, warned the secretary general of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres.
Explosions, bombings and shootings They continued to resonate for ten days in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and other areas, causing hundreds of deaths.
However, foreign capitals managed to negotiate with the two belligerents the evacuation of their diplomatic personnel and citizens of their countries.
This spiral “runs the risk of a catastrophic conflagration within Sudan that could envelop the entire region and beyond,” Guterres said on Monday.
Despite this warning, the United Nations envoy to Sudan, Volker Perthes, will remain in the East African country, unlike many diplomats and other foreign nationals.
The drama
Total, more than 1,000 citizens of the European Union have been evacuated (EU), according to the bloc’s head of diplomacy, Josep Borrell.
Spain has announced the departure of 100 people, Spaniards but also Latin Americans.
The United States evacuated its diplomatic personnel, fewer than 100 people, in helicopters.
China and several Arab countries they also evacuated hundreds of their citizens.
About 700 employees of the United Nations, embassies and international organizations “have been evacuated to Port Sudan,” a city on the shores of the Red Sea, the United Nations said.
The more than 5 million inhabitants of the capital have had neither water nor electricity for days and food shortages are starting.
The fighting, which is taking place mainly in Khartoum and Darfur in the west of this country of 45 million inhabitants, broke out on April 15 between the army of General Abdel Fatah al Burhan, Sudan’s de facto ruler since coup of 2021, and his rival, General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, leader of the rapid support paramilitary forces (FAR).
Source: Clarin
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