‘No negotiation, no truce’ with RSF, says senior Sudan official

Comments travel days aft PM Kamil Idris presented a program to extremity the country’s astir three-year war.

A elder authoritative successful Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC) has ruled retired immoderate negotiations with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) arsenic warring continues to devastate the country.

“There is nary truce and nary dialog with an occupier, and that the conscionable bid that Sudan desires volition beryllium achieved done the roadmap and imaginativeness of its radical and government,” Malik Agar Ayyir, lawman president of TSC, said successful a connection connected Thursday posted by the Ministry of Culture, Media and Tourism.

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Speaking to ministers and authorities officials successful Port Sudan, the eastbound metropolis wherever the authorities is based, helium dismissed the communicative that the warfare is aimed astatine achieving “democracy”. Instead, helium described the warfare arsenic a “conflict implicit resources and a tendency to alteration Sudan’s demographics” and emphasised an accidental to fortify nationalist unity.

This comes days aft Sudan’s Prime Minister Kamil Idris presented a plan to extremity the country’s astir three-year warfare earlier the United Nations Security Council.

Consistent with the Sudanese service and the government’s position, the program stipulates that RSF fighters indispensable retreat from immense areas of onshore that they person taken by unit successful the occidental and cardinal parts of Sudan.

They would past person to beryllium placed successful camps and disarmed, earlier those who are not implicated successful warfare crimes tin beryllium reintegrated into society.

The RSF has repeatedly rejected the thought of giving up territory, with Al-Basha Tibiq, a apical advisor to commandant Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo, describing it arsenic “closer to phantasy than to politics”.

RSF reports gains

The war, which has forcibly displaced astir 14 cardinal people, shows nary signs of stopping arsenic the RSF consolidates its clasp implicit captured territory and expands attacks.

RSF fighters person continued to perpetrate wide killings, systematic intersexual violence, and the burying and burning of bodies successful Darfur to screen up the grounds of warfare crimes implicit the past respective months, according to planetary assistance agencies moving connected the ground.

The humanitarian concern connected the crushed has lone turned much disastrous aft the seizure of el-Fasher, superior of North Darfur state, successful October.

The RSF announced connected Thursday that its forces established power implicit the Abu Qumra portion successful North Darfur.

They “have continued their palmy advancement to the Um Buru area, wherever they person wholly liberated these areas”, the radical claimed successful a statement.

Despite the mounting grounds of wide atrocities committed successful occidental Sudan, the RSF claimed that the superior work of its fighters is to “protect civilians and extremity the beingness of remnants of equipped pockets and mercenary movements”.

The radical besides released footage of its equipped fighters, who claimed they were making advances towards el-Obeid, a strategical metropolis successful North Kordofan state.