RSF says it agrees to mediators’ ceasefire proposal in Sudan war

Paramilitary says it volition judge a ceasefire projected by the Quad mediators – the US, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) says it has agreed to a connection by the United States for a ceasefire successful Sudan aft much than 2 years of warring with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF).

The paramilitary radical said successful a connection connected Thursday that it would judge a “humanitarian ceasefire” projected by the US-led “quad” mediator group, which includes Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, “to code the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of the warfare and to heighten the extortion of civilians”.

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There was nary contiguous remark from Sudan’s military.

Earlier this week, the US elder advisor for Arab and African affairs, Massad Boulos, said efforts were nether mode to scope a truce and that the warring sides had “agreed successful principle”.

“We person not recorded immoderate archetypal objection from either side. We are present focusing connected the good details,” Boulos said connected Monday successful a connection carried by the Sudan Tribune quality outlet.

Reporting from Khartoum, Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan said the program would statesman with a three-month humanitarian truce that could pave the mode for a lasting governmental solution, which would see a caller civilian government.

The RSF “said that they’re anxious to find immoderate benignant of extremity to this two-year conflict”, Morgan said of the group’s statement to the truce.

SAF has repeatedly said it wants to proceed fighting, Morgan reported, adding that service officials bash not judge members of the RSF tin beryllium reintegrated into Sudanese society.

SAF has antecedently said it does not privation the UAE’s engagement successful truce discussions and that it volition request the RSF retreat from immoderate metropolis it occupies, among different stipulations, she said.

“This humanitarian entree the ceasefire would bring astir is desperately needed, but the Sudanese service is yet to hold to it. They person conditions,” Morgan reported. “It doesn’t look similar the RSF volition conscionable them.”

Earlier connected Thursday, service main Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had said his forces were “striving for the decision of the enemy”.

“Soon, we volition avenge those who person been killed and abused … successful each the regions attacked by the rebels,” helium said successful a televised address.

The announcement comes arsenic the RSF faces accusations of committing wide killings since it seized the metropolis of el-Fasher successful North Darfur authorities connected October 26, pursuing an 18-month siege.

The RSF present dominates the immense occidental Darfur portion and parts of the country’s south, portion the service holds the north, eastbound and cardinal regions on the Nile and the Red Sea.

More than 70,000 radical person fled el-Fasher and surrounding areas since the RSF’s takeover, according to the United Nations, with witnesses and quality rights groups reporting cases of “summary executions”, intersexual unit and wide killings of civilians.

The World Health Organization had reported the “tragic sidesplitting of much than 460 patients and aesculapian staff” astatine a erstwhile children’s infirmary during the city’s takeover.

‘Mass graves’

Researchers astatine Yale University said successful a study connected Thursday that caller outer imagery has detected enactment “consistent with wide graves” successful the city.

The US university’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) study said it recovered grounds accordant with “body disposal activities”.

The study identified “at slightest 2 world disturbances accordant with wide graves astatine a mosque and the erstwhile Children’s Hospital”.

It besides noted the quality of metres-long trenches, arsenic good arsenic the disappearance of clusters of objects accordant with bodies adjacent the hospital, the mosque and different parts of the metropolis – indicating that bodies deposited astir those areas were aboriginal moved.

“Body disposal oregon removal was besides observed astatine Al-Saudi Hospital successful outer imagery,” the study said.

Displaced Sudanese children who fled with their families during unit successful el-Fasher beryllium wrong a campy structure amid ongoing clashes betwixt the RSF and the Sudanese army, successful Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan, November 3, 2025 [Mohamed Jamal/Reuters]

The warfare successful Sudan, which erupted successful April 2023, has pitted the service against the radical led by al-Burhan’s erstwhile deputy, RSF commandant Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, besides known arsenic Hemedti.

Both the warring sides person been accused of warfare crimes. In a September report, the UN Human Rights Council accused some sides of extrajudicial killing, large-scale attacks against civilians and torture. It besides reported an “overwhelming volume” of grounds connected intersexual unit chiefly perpetrated by RSF and SAF members.