World leaders step up efforts behind the scenes at the UN to end the war in Sudan

The United Nations – Behind the scenes of the annual collection of the United Nations world leaders, key countries and regional organizations coordinated efforts to try to end the horrible war in Sudan, which created the most devastating humanitarian crisis and travel in the world.

Alan Boswell, project director of the international crisis group for the Horn of Africa, said that this year’s high -level general meeting meeting, which ends on Monday, could be “hacking” for arising the conflict.

“For the first time since the war broke out more than two years ago, the most influential external powers in Sudan agreed this month on a roadmap to end the war,” he said in a statement. “Now comes the enormous task of trying to convince the parties at the war of Sudan to stop fighting.”

Sudan plunged into the conflict in mid-April 2023, when the longtime tensions between its rival military and paramilitary commanders have broken out in the capital, Khartoum, and spread to the West Darfur and a large part of the rest of the country.

At least 40,000 people have been killed, nearly 13 million people displaced and many pushed on the brink of famine with more than 24 million food products, according to United Nations agencies.

In key development after a summer of discussions, the United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates published a joint declaration on September 12 calling for a humanitarian break for the first three months to deliver a desperately necessary aid to all of Sudan, followed by a permanent cease-fire.

Then, the four countries said: “An inclusive and transparent transition process should be launched and concluded in the nine months to respect the aspirations of the Sudanese people towards the establishment of an independent government led by civilians with large legitimacy and responsibility.”

The group called the Quad, met on Wednesday on the sidelines of the Assembly to discuss the implementation of their roadmap.

Another meeting was also focused on the defense of war was convened Wednesday by the African Union, the European Union and the foreign ministers of Germany, France and the United Kingdom. Representatives of the Quad, a dozen other countries, the Arab League, the United Nations and the regional group of East Africa, IGAD, also attended.

A statement published by the AU, the EU, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway and Canada after the meeting urged the government at war and the paramilitary quick support forces to resume direct negotiations to carry out a permanent cease-fire.

He welcomed the September 12 declaration by the Quad and expressed support for the AU and EU efforts “to coordinate international and bilateral efforts to put pressure on all Sudanese parties towards a cease-fire, humanitarian action and political dialogue”.

The press release strongly condemned the military involvement of unnamed foreign countries and “non -state actors” and urged them to stop fueling the conflict.

The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, in his speech of “the state of the world” at the opening of the global gathering on Tuesday, made a similar appeal to all the parties, including the nameless countries of the vast assembly room: “put an end to the external support which feeds this blood ingenity to protect civilians.”

“In Sudan, civilians are slaughtered, hungry and silence,” said Guterres. “Women and girls are faced with unspeakable violence.”

The deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said in July that the court thought that war crimes and crimes against humanity are taking place in Darfour, where the RSF controls all regional capitals with the exception of El-Fasher in northern Darfur.

The RSF and their allies announced at the end of June, they had formed a parallel government in the group controlled areas. The United Nations Security Council has rejected the plan, warning that a rival government threatens the country’s territorial integrity and risks further enlarging the current civil war.

Sudan’s transitional Prime Minister Kamil El-Tayeb Idris, accused the RSF of “systematic killing and torture and looting and rape and humiliation and the wild destruction of all components of life”, part of his efforts to “control Sudan, to plunder his richness and change the demography of its population”.

Addressing the assembly on Thursday, he underlined the sovereignty of the country and declared that the government was attached to a roadmap developed by the Sudanese, including a cease-fire, “accompanied by the withdrawal of the militia of rapid terrorist support of the areas and cities it occupies”, including El-Fasher.

El-Tayeb said that the civil government he has formed will engage in a national dialogue “which includes all political and societal forces to lay the foundations for free and equitable elections, and to engage positively with regional and international communities.”

The Prime Minister of Chad, Allah Maye Halina, told the general assembly on Thursday that his country, which borders the Darfur, welcomes more than 2 million Sudan refugees, of which 1.5 million has arrived since April 2023. He called on the international community to help support refugees, saying more continuation.

“We are convinced that the current crisis in Sudan cannot be resolved by weapons, but rather by peaceful means, by inclusive inter-Sudanese dialogue,” he said, stressing that Chad is strictly neutral in the conflict and is available to contribute to any initiative to end the war.