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full screen Sudanese on the run in Sennar state in south-eastern Sudan in February. Archive image. Photo: Ahmed Omer/Nrc/Handout
The UN Security Council calls in a resolution for a ceasefire in Sudan – where the ongoing war has caused a humanitarian disaster – to coincide with the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
The resolution calls on “all parties to the conflict to seek a sustainable solution to the conflict through dialogue”. It also calls for allowing humanitarian aid to cross the border unimpeded.
Fourteen countries supported the resolution, which was proposed by the United Kingdom. Only Russia abstained, citing “hypocrisy” as the Security Council failed to call for an immediate ceasefire in the war between Israel and terror-labelled Hamas – due to the US repeatedly exercising its veto.
The war between the Sudanese government forces and the militia group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has been raging since last April.
More than eight million Sudanese have fled their homes since the civil war broke out. Just over six million of them remain within the country’s borders.