No Use For Talks Without Any Genuine Ceasefire

Skeletal information continues to be released publicly on the progress of the Saudi-US mediated talks in Jeddah between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that began on 6 May.

But SAF leader Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan reports lately that “there is no use in sitting at the negotiating table in Saudi Arabia” without a genuine ceasefire.

Gen Burhan said he welcomed all initiatives that aim to stop bloodshed but stressed that the RSF must give up its weapons.

A Saudi diplomat had earlier said that the discussions have yielded “no major progress”.

Numerous ceasefires have been violated since the conflict erupted on 15 April.

BBC/Jide Johnson.