After a series of Arab and African regional initiatives, and despite several consecutive truces announced, and efforts to stop the ongoing bloodshed through talks hosted by Saudi Arabia and attended by representatives of both parties to the conflict, clashes continue in Sudan, especially in the capital Khartoum between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support forces .

Edited by| Hugh Gey

Politic section -  CJ journalist

Sudan conflict news section  

Jeddah- May,7,2023

   The Jeddah talks are part of a U.S.-Saudi initiative, the first serious attempt to end the fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, which has turned parts of the capital Khartoum into war zones and undermined an internationally backed plan to transition to civilian rule after years of unrest and uprisings.

Since the fighting broke out in mid-April, hundreds of people have been killed, thousands injured, aid supplies have been disrupted and 100 thousand refugees have fled the country.

Thousands are seeking to leave via Port Sudan on boats bound for Saudi Arabia or pay for expensive commercial flights to depart from the country's only functioning airport or through evacuation flights.

While mediators are trying to find a path to peace, both sides have made it clear that they will only discuss a humanitarian truce and will not negotiate to end the war.

The commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, known as Hemeti, confirmed his group's participation in the talks, saying he hoped they would achieve the desired goal of opening a safe passage for civilians.

Western powers backed the plan for a political transition and the formation of a civilian government in Sudan, which is strategically located at the crossroads between Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, and the troubled Sahel region of Africa.

The spokesman of the secretary-general of the League of Arab States said that the secretary-general received a letter from the civil forces signatories to the framework agreement in which they present their point of view on the desired role of the Arab League to stop the ongoing war.

The spokesman explained that the civil forces requested the secretary-general to immediately communicate with the leadership of the armed forces and rapid support to urge them to stop the fighting as a main priority, while rejecting external interventions that contribute to increasing the ignition of the war or expanding its scope and support the transition to a political process leading to agreement by all parties on new constitutional arrangements establishing a civilian authority, agreed upon, to implement a reform program during a short transitional period leading to general elections and obtaining Arab relief support to face the humanitarian disaster inside and outside Khartoum.

The Americans and Saudis announced that the belligerents were negotiating a truce in Saudi Arabia, but they did not talk about the start of these talks or their content.

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