Al-Yurae-(News Agencies) –Kenyan President William Ruto announced on Monday that “the IGAD initiative on the Sudanese crisis includes a meeting between the President of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, and the leaders of South Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti.”
Ruto said that “the initiative of the IGAD includes discussing the opening of humanitarian corridors with the parties to the conflict in Sudan within two weeks,” stressing that “IGAD will start within 3 weeks to manage a national dialogue between Sudanese civil forces to discuss the end of the current crisis.”
Earlier today, the Vice President of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council, Malik Agar, called on IGAD members to focus their efforts to resolve the conflict in Sudan.
“We want to end the war, stop the fighting and demand the safe delivery of humanitarian aid,” Malik Agar said in a speech at the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) summit, welcoming the roadmap presented by African Commission President Moussa Faki.
The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki, warned that Sudan could slide into civil war and collapse the state if clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces continue.
Faki said, during a speech, that “the ongoing clashes in Sudan raise the risk of the outbreak of civil war and the collapse of the Sudanese state,” adding that “the crisis in Sudan represents a major threat to its existence and the entire region and does not allow procrastination and disruption.”
Earlier on Monday, the Sudanese army said it had killed hundreds of “rapid support” members and destroyed dozens of military vehicles in several neighborhoods in the capital Khartoum, which the Rapid support forces denied, stressing that they inflicted heavy losses in the ranks of the army.
Last Friday, Saudi Arabia and the United States announced that representatives of the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces had reached a ceasefire agreement throughout Sudan for 24 hours, starting at 6 a.m. on June 10, Khartoum time.
Since April 15, violent and large-scale clashes have been taking place between the Sudanese army forces and the Rapid Support Forces in different areas of Sudan.
, mostly concentrated in the capital, Khartoum, leaving hundreds of civilians dead and wounded, while there is no official count of military casualties from both sides of the military conflict.
