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Sudan's warring parties continue talks with UN envoy

July 17, 2024 at 2:02 pm

A man walks past a devastated market area in al-Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, on 1 September, 2023 [-/AFP via Getty Images]

Talks between a UN envoy and delegations from both warring parties in Sudan are continuing in Geneva this week, focused on humanitarian aid and protecting civilians, the United Nations said yesterday.

War has raged since April 2023 between the Sudanese regular army under Abdel Fattah Al Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s personal envoy for Sudan, Ramtane Lamamra, invited delegations from the army and the RSF for talks which began on Thursday.

No end date has been scheduled for the talks.

The UN said one of the parties failed to attend the first day of talks last week but did not identify who that was.

A direct meeting between the two delegations is not scheduled.

More than ten million Sudanese, or 20 per cent of the population, have been driven from their homes since the war began, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said yesterday, as the world’s largest displacement crisis continues to worsen.

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