This Sunday, the Arab League met to discuss the conflict in Sudan. In Saudi Arabia, army emissaries and paramilitaries are said to have started talking under the aegis of Riyadh and Washington. They were joined by the head of United Nations Humanitarian Affairs.
With 335,000 displaced persons and 117,000 refugees, it is urgent for the UN to set up a passage to allow humanitarian aid to enter and civilians to leave the country. In Khartoum, the situation of the inhabitants is becoming more complicated every day. Already without water and electricity, the capital will quickly run out of food and cash. Especially since the fighting has not stopped. This Sunday again, the shots echoed throughout the city.
And it was to negotiate this corridor that the head of UN humanitarian affairs arrived in Saudi Arabia on Sunday. Martin Griffiths has indeed joined Jeddah, where according to American and Sudanese officials, the two belligerent camps, namely the army and the paramilitaries, are trying to negotiate a truce.
A possible ceasefire
It is difficult to know exactly how these discussions are going since neither General al-Burhan nor General Hemedti have yet made any comments. The army has barely hinted that there was no question of negotiating peace, but of discussing a possible ceasefire.
In the meantime, the United Nations warns: if the war lasts, nearly 2.5 million additional people are at risk of suffering from hunger.
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