The talks in the Saudi port of Jeddah represent the most serious effort yet to stop the conflict, which has displaced 700,000 people.
Fatna, 18, who has fled the violence in Sudan’s Darfur region, prepares breakfast beside her makeshift shelter near the border between Sudan and Chad in Koufroun, Chad, May 11 2023. Picture: REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
In public neither side has shown it is ready to offer concessions to end the conflict that erupted suddenly last month, threatening to pitch Sudan into a civil war, killing hundreds of people and triggering a humanitarian crisis. The RSF on Wednesday said it held nearly all of Khartoum and accused the army of “unrelenting violations”. Reuters could not independently verify their accounts.
On Thursday the army warned it would target what it said were RSF fighters in civilian clothes using motorcycles, and warned ordinary residents of the capital not to use the vehicles. The Jeddah talks are focused on securing a ceasefire and guarantees of safe access for humanitarian assistance in a country where 16-million people already depended on aid before fighting began.
Many foreign countries have evacuated their nationals from Sudan, including through an organised week-long airlift and naval operation that took out thousands.
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