White House spokeswoman Karen Jean-Pierre told a news conference, “We are concerned about the humanitarian situation in Sudan, and the military and Rapid Support Forces should provide safe access humanitarian organizations to Sudanese citizens”.
She added, “The US administration is communicating directly with the leadership of the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces, and we have called for a continued ceasefire and violence.”
And she stressed that humanitarian agencies should be allowed access to help people in Sudan, amid renewed fighting despite the supposed truce.
Meanwhile, US State Department Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel told reporters on Tuesday that the US Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia has received and provided services to more than 350 US citizens and residents. permanent in the United States, who had fled Sudan.
gesture of peace
Earlier on Tuesday, the government of South Sudan, which officially seceded from Sudan in 2011, said the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces had agreed “in principle” to a ceasefire of a week from Thursday and start peace talks.
The statement did not specify where and when the talks might take place.
The fighting that began on April 15 left more than 500 dead, most in Khartoum and Darfur (west), and thousands injured, according to an official report which, according to observers, is lower than the reality.
And the United Nations estimated that the conflict had plunged the country, one of the poorest countries in the world, into a “disaster in the full sense of the term”.
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