Sudanese authorities – now based in Port Sudan, in the east of the country – vigorously rejected on Saturday evening the United Nations proposal for the deployment of an “impartial” force to protect civilians.
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In a statement published on the night of Saturday to Sunday, September 8, Sudanese diplomacy firmly contested the entirety of the recommendations of the report of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which advocates an arms embargo and the establishment of an interposition force. For the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ” the role ” of the Human Rights Council should be ” support the national process rather than seeking to impose a different external mechanism ” On this ground, the Sudanese authorities vigorously accuse the organization of being an illegal political body.
According to those close to General al-Burhan, it is the FSR militias that systematically target civilians and civilian institutions. According to the report of experts mandated by the United Nations Human Rights Council and published on Friday, September 6, ” a horrific series of human rights violations and international crimes, many of which can be described as crimes against humanity ” have been committed. And these crimes are attributable to the two camps that have been opposing each other since April 15, 2023 and the start of this new civil war which has caused the death of tens of thousands of civilians and the displacement of more than ten million Sudanese.
Contacted by RFI, Roland Marchal, a researcher specializing in the Horn of Africa, is also skeptical about the role of an interposition force in the country. He raises the fact that, for the moment, at Sudanthere are no political negotiations between the loyalist forces and the FSR paramilitaries.
For him, a new player on the field will pass ” much more time to defend himself against the threats that will weigh on him “, a statement that is one of the main criticisms of UN peacekeeping missions in Africa.
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