2023-07-14 20:35:19
On Friday, the US Secretary of State and his Saudi counterpart affirmed the joint commitment of their two countries to ending the fighting in Sudan.
Foreign spokesman said. Matthew Miller, in statement “US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke today with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Prince Faisal bin Farhan,” as they affirmed “their two countries’ shared commitment to ending the devastating conflict in Sudan and providing the urgent humanitarian needs of the Sudanese people.”
Miller said in the statement that the two ministers “discussed a range of bilateral and regional issues,” without going into details.
For its part, the Saudi Press Agency did not mentionSPAShe referred to the details of the call between the two ministers, and said only: “During the call, aspects of consolidating and strengthening bilateral relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States of America in various fields were reviewed, and the two ministers also discussed developments on the regional and international arenas, and the efforts made in this regard.”
Several truces have already been announced since the outbreak of the conflict between the Sudanese army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces led by Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, nicknamed “Hamidti” on April 15, most of which were sponsored by Saudi Arabia and the United States, but they were not fully adhered to on the ground.
This call came following a strong condemnation of the United States, Thursday, of “atrocities” recorded by reliable sources at the hands of the Rapid Support Forces and their militia allies in Darfur during the recent fighting that broke out since mid-April, and which the International Criminal Court announced the opening of an investigation, Thursday.
“The world is watching you.” Washington denounces the “horrors” of the Sudanese conflict.
On Thursday, the United States condemned “in the strongest terms the ongoing atrocities” and “targeted killings of ethnic groups by the Rapid Support Forces and their allied militias in Western Darfur, according to reliable sources.”
On Thursday, the United Nations Human Rights Office reported that at least 87 people, some of them from the “Masalit” and other ethnicities, were buried in a mass grave in West Darfur, Sudan.
The UN office said it had “credible information regarding the RSF’s responsibility for this,” which the latter denies.
According to data obtained by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, which it described as “reliable”, “these people were killed between June 13 and 21 in the Al-Madares and Al-Jumadas neighborhoods in the city of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state.”
On the other hand, the media office of the Rapid Support Forces stressed in a statement to “Al-Hurra” website that its members “were not a party to the conflict that broke out in West Darfur, especially El Geneina,” noting that “the conflict is purely tribal in nature between the Masalit and the Arab tribes, and it is an old and renewed conflict.” Even before there was fast support.”
A mass grave in West Darfur
The United Nations Human Rights Office stated, on Thursday, that at least 87 people, some of them from the “Masalit” and other ethnicities, were buried in a mass grave, West Darfur, Sudan, adding that it has reliable information regarding the responsibility of the Rapid Support Forces for that, which are the accusations made The latter denies it.
And while more than 700,000 people left Sudan to neighboring countries, the rest of the population, whose total number was estimated at regarding 48 million, suffers from a lack of food, services and energy sources, while reports continue of cases of looting, sexual violence and the intensification of ethnic conflicts, especially in the region Darfur in the west of the country.
The conflict caused more than 2,800 deaths, although many relief sources suggest that the actual toll is much higher. More than three million people have been forced to leave their homes, according to United Nations figures.
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