2023-05-21 07:22:52
The United States and Saudi Arabia announced that the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces signed a short-term agreement in Jeddah to stop the fighting in Sudan, accompanied by humanitarian arrangements. This comes following renewed clashes with heavy weapons in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces.
The United States of America and Saudi Arabia said in a joint statement that the two sides of the conflict in Sudan signed late yesterday, Saturday, a cease-fire agreement for a period of 7 days.
The joint statement added, “The cease-fire will enter into force 48 hours following signing, and it can be extended with the consent of both parties.”
He pointed out that “the two sides agreed to deliver and distribute humanitarian aid, restore basic services, and withdraw forces from hospitals and basic public facilities.”
“The two parties also agreed to facilitate the safe passage of humanitarian aid providers, allowing the unhindered flow of aid from the ports of entry to the population in need,” the statement pointed out.
He also made it clear that “the two parties pledged not to seek field gains during the 48 hours preceding the start of the ceasefire, which will enter into force at 09:45 pm Khartoum time on the 22nd of May.”
According to the statement, this short-term ceasefire is in line with the gradual approach agreed upon by both sides, and subsequent talks are expected to focus on additional steps needed to improve security and humanitarian conditions for civilians.
He pointed out that “it is expected that the subsequent talks in Jeddah will address the necessary steps to reach a permanent cessation of hostilities.”
It is noteworthy that on May 6, direct talks began in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, between the two parties to the conflict in Sudan, and the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces agreed on May 12, following their meeting in Jeddah, on a number of items, the first of which is sparing civilians any harm.
On Saturday, the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, witnessed air raids and mutual artillery shelling between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, and the Qatari embassy was attacked in the midst of the conflict between them.
Clashes with heavy weapons were renewed in Khartoum between the two parties, and the army said that it had launched strikes once morest the “Rapid Support Forces” sites, while the “Rapid Support Forces” said that it was responding to these attacks.
On the other hand, the leader of the “Sudan People’s Liberation Movement” Malik Agar, who was recently appointed by Al-Burhan as Vice President of the Sovereignty Council following Hemedti’s dismissal from the post, said that he is working to reach a cease-fire and then stop the war permanently.
The United Nations estimated the number of people in need of humanitarian aid in Sudan at regarding 25 million, and estimated the volume of emergency aid necessary for the country and those fleeing the war to neighboring countries – whose number is expected to exceed one million this year – at regarding $3 billion.
Likewise, the United Nations World Food Program announced that it is “intensifying its operations in at least 6 states in Sudan to help 4.9 million people at risk, as well as those fleeing to Chad, Egypt and South Sudan.”
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