Politics US government calls for an end to the war in Sudan
US President Joe Biden has called on the parties to the conflict in Sudan to end the bloody power struggle that has been going on for a year and a half. The violence must be stopped and must not be fueled any further, said Biden according to the White House. The warring parties must withdraw their troops, allow unhindered humanitarian aid in all parts of the country and re-enter negotiations to end the civil war.
18.09.2024, 07:25
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Since April 2023, de facto ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the army under his control have been battling for supremacy with his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo and his Rapid Support Forces militia in Africa's third-largest country, which is rich in natural resources. According to the UN, the conflict has triggered the world's largest refugee crisis. More than ten million people have been displaced or have fled themselves - many of them several times.
"One of the worst humanitarian crises in the world"
At the end of August, the latest efforts by the USA to negotiate a ceasefire failed. With aid payments of 1.6 billion dollars (1.44 billion euros), the United States is, according to its own information, the most important donor for the supply of people in Sudan.
Biden said that the Sudanese people were suffering "a senseless war that has caused one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world". Women and girls had been abducted and sexually abused. A famine has broken out in Darfur, which is also threatening millions of people elsewhere. Last week, the aid organization Doctors Without Borders warned that thousands of children could soon die of hunger in North Darfur.
