The warring Sudanese army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have committed to easing humanitarian aid deliveries and implementing confidence-building measures, mediators in talks in Jeddah said via Saudi state news agency SPA on Tuesday.
The two sides, who have been fighting since April, have previously agreed to and then promptly violated ceasefires and commitments to facilitating aid and protecting civilians.
Fighting in Sudan's Darfur region and the capital Khartoum has picked up since the two sides reconvened for talks, brokered by Saudi Arabia, the United States and regional African bloc IGAD, last month, incurring heavy civilian casualties. Refugees and eyewitnesses arriving in Chad have also accused the RSF of reviving bloody ethnic violence in the West Darfur town of El Geneina. The RSF has described the fighting there as tribal violence.
Instead, the two sides agreed to work with the United Nations humanitarian agency OCHA to resolve impediments to humanitarian aid access, the statement said, as well as to set up a line of communication between the army and RSF and tone down inflammatory rhetoric.
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