Malik Agar, deputy chairman of Sudan’s sovereign council, said on Saturday that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had expressed his willingness to visit Khartoum in order to mediate between the army and the Rapid Support Forces.
This came during a meeting with the Ethiopian prime minister, at the presidential palace in Addis Ababa, according to a statement issued by the office of the deputy chairman of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council.
The meeting discussed “the political and humanitarian situation in Sudan in light of the current crisis,” according to the statement.
The statement stated that “Abiy Ahmed expressed his deep vulnerability to the catastrophic humanitarian situation that the Sudanese are going through, and his great interest in the details and course of the war in the capital and some Sudanese cities.”
During his meeting with the deputy chairman of the Sovereign Council, “Abiy Ahmed expressed his desire for assistance of any kind, and his full readiness to visit Khartoum at all costs, in order to sit with the two parties to reach a ceasefire between the two sides.”
Ethiopian authorities had not commented on the matter as of late yesterday.
Since last May, Saudi Arabia and the United States have been sponsoring negotiations in Jeddah between the Sudanese army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support led by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo “Hemedti”, which succeeded in reaching several truces between the two sides in the hope of reaching a “permanent ceasefire.”
The two Sudanese sides accuse each other of starting the fighting first and committing violations during a series of truces that did not succeed in ending the ongoing clashes since April 15, which left hundreds dead and thousands injured among civilians, in addition to a new wave of displacement and asylum in one of the world’s poorest countries.
