Al-Yurae- (Local papers)–As the escalating fighting in Sudan moves into its seventh month, the United Nations has warned that Sudan faces one of the fastest-growing crises with unprecedented needs.
The Deputy Representative of the Secretary-General for the Sudan and Resident Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, Clementine Nkweta Salami, called on all parties to cease hostilities, commit to a permanent cessation of hostilities and abide by their obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law to protect civilians.
She stressed the need to enable safe humanitarian access to those in need, stressing that “the longer this fighting lasts, the more devastating its impact becomes.” Negotiations between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces are expected to resume on Thursday in the port city of Jeddah with US-Saudi mediation after being suspended last July, while preparatory meetings continue for the General Conference of Civil Forces in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, which aims to form a broad civil front to stop the war and restore civil transition in the country.
And the sessions of the second day of the meeting, which enjoys wide participation of the components of Freedom and Change, the Revolutionary Front and a number of resistance committees.
During his address to the meetings, the head of the Umma Party-designate, Fadlallah Barma, called for stopping the war, which he described as “absurd”, which claimed thousands of dead and wounded innocent civilians, displaced millions internally and externally, and continued to terrorize and intimidate citizens and deprive them of security, shelter and food, and destroyed vital facilities by targeting hospitals, infrastructure and services such as electricity, water and school supplies.
He warned that more than twenty million Sudanese were threatened with famine. While the capital, Khartoum, faces systematic destruction of services, artillery and air strikes have destroyed neighborhoods and strategic facilities, and fighters have deployed inside residential neighborhoods, who he said are looting and seizing citizens’ property as spoils of war, expelling residents from their homes, and spreading to Darfur, Kordofan and other areas.
This war has negatively affected the regional order and neighboring countries and has strengthened human trafficking and migrations, he said, noting that it constitutes an incubator for terrorist groups in light of national insecurity and opens points of contact between the centers of terrorist groups in the countries of the Sahel and the Horn of Africa.
He said that the forces gathered in Addis Ababa, which seek to build a civil front to stop the war and restore democracy, realize that the aim of this war is the militarization of life in Sudan and the revenge of the former regime against the forces of the revolution and its quest to eliminate the roots of civil life and democratic civilian rule.
He stressed that civil forces will make this war an opportunity to re-establish the state and build a state of citizenship that accommodates all, and works to achieve regional and global peace.
He also welcomed the international and regional initiatives to stop the war in Sudan, especially the call made by the facilitators at the Jeddah platform to resume talks starting on Thursday, calling on the parties to seize the opportunity and immediately stop hostilities and facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid to those affected, calling for joint work between all initiatives to find a mechanism that makes all these efforts pour into a unified platform to end the war in Sudan.
The South Sudanese capital is also witnessing the meetings of the signatories to the Juba Peace Agreement 2020, which began on Tuesday, and aims to unify the positions of the movements that, despite declaring neutrality in the face of the battles between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, face polarization and sharp divisions, while some of their components sided with the parties to the conflict.
Since the outbreak of the Sudanese war in mid-April, at least 9,000 Sudanese have been killed, according to United Nations statistics, while more than 5 million have been displaced by escalating battles between the army and the Rapid Support Forces inside cities.
