US President Donald Trump said last week that he would intervene to stop the devastating conflict, which erupted in April 2023 and has spread hunger and ethnic killings across the country and threatened to split it, the second in its history.
Previous efforts led by the United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have not borne fruit. The group submitted a proposal to the two forces in early November.
Boulos, US President Donald Trump’s adviser on African and Arab affairs, said both warring Sudanese factions welcomed the US plan, but neither formally accepted the text. On Sunday, however, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan described the latest US proposal as the worst he had seen, saying it marginalizes the army and gives legitimacy to the RSF.
Boulos, speaking at a news conference in Abu Dhabi, said the military had come back with “preconditions” but that the US wanted the plan accepted in its original form.
Meanwhile, on Monday, RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo said his forces would immediately conclude a unilateral ceasefire. It was not clear on Tuesday whether that truce would hold.
Boulos said he welcomed the RSF declaration and hoped it would be confirmed, and said Burhan’s criticisms were based on wrong facts, Reuters reports.
(Vijesti.ba / Fena)
