RSF ready to implement ceasefire in Sudan, commander says

The head of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said on Thursday that the faction remained ready to implement a nationwide ceasefire in its war with the army and allow for the delivery of humanitarian aid.

General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, commonly known as Hemedti, made the comments in a recorded message addressed to the United Nations General Assembly, following a speech to the body by the head of Sudan’s army.

 

Earlier the head of Sudan’s army said that he supported efforts to bring an end to a devastating war in his country as long as they brought an end to the “occupation” of territory by the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

In an address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan also said countries in the region were providing funding, weapons and mercenaries to the RSF, though he did not name any country.

“We in Sudan’s government are ready to engage in any initiative that ends this war whenever this initiative supports national ownership of the solution and ends the occupation by the rebel militia of various regions,” Burhan said, in reference to the RSF.

He said the army-backed government would not accept the participation of any country that supported the RSF in a peace process, and that any such process must include the RSF laying down its arms and a comprehensive political settlement.