UN Security Council urges immediate Sudan ceasefire, renewed transition talks
to be followed by a permanent halt to hostilities and fresh efforts to reach a lasting democratic political settlement in the conflict-wracked country.
The Security Council underlined the need “for strengthened international coordination and continued collaboration” and reaffirmed “their firm support for African leadership,” noting the African Union’s six-point roadmap to resolve the conflict as well as efforts by the Arab League and the regional group IGAD.Gabon’s U.N. Ambassador Michel Biang told the council after the vote that the security situation in Sudan continues to worsen.
Biang stressed that the presence of the U.N. mission “is now more important than ever before to coordinate the U.N.’s response to the complex challenges plaguing the country.” Sudanese leader Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan and Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, who heads the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, agreed to restore the transition but clashed over the terms of the RSF’s merger into the army, a disagreement that exploded into open conflict on April 15.
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