In an interview with Reuters, Griffiths said he wanted to meet with both sides to the conflict in Sudan within two or three days to get public assurances from them about providing safe passage for humanitarian aid.
He added that the meeting could take place in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, or anywhere else, after a visit to Port Sudan to plan a large-scale relief operation.
Call of Daglo and Griffith
In the same context, Daglo wrote on his account documented on “Twitter”, Wednesday evening Thursday, having discussed “with Griffiths, the evolution of the humanitarian situation in the country and the importance of coordination to bring the necessary assistance to citizens and protect its access to the needy, in addition to ensuring the movement of citizens in order to meet their basic needs.” .
He added: “We affirm our full commitment to open and protect humanitarian corridors to facilitate the movement of citizens in places controlled by our forces and to ensure the arrival of humanitarian aid.
He continued, “We are also ready to cooperate, coordinate and provide anything that helps to alleviate the current circumstances.”
The army accepts a truce
And the Sudanese army announced on Wednesday evening its approval of the initiative presented by the Intergovernmental Authority on the Development of Eastern African Countries to extend the current truce for a week, and declared in a communicated :
The armed forces express their approval of the proposal based on the principle of African solutions to the problems of the continent and taking into account the humanitarian aspects of our citizens, in view of the ongoing US-Saudi initiative. We hope that the RSF will respect the demands of the proposed truce.
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