Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have announced their readiness to enter a three-month humanitarian truce, to be followed by peace talks with the Sudanese Army.
In a video address late Monday, RSF commander Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo reaffirmed the group’s commitment to the proposed truce and urged international mediators to pressure the Sudanese military to agree.
The mediators known as the Quad and consisting of the United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates have spent more than two years attempting to end the conflict and revive Sudan’s stalled transition to democracy after the 2021 military coup.
However, Sudan’s top military leader, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, rejected the latest ceasefire plan, accusing the Quad of showing “bias” in their mediation efforts.
The war, which erupted in April 2023 amid a power struggle between the army and the RSF, has claimed more than 40,000 lives a number rights groups say is likely far higher. More than 14 million people have been displaced, deepening what has become one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises.
