The Sudanese Foreign Ministry said in a statement: “Despite the validity of the truce sponsored by the IGAD organization, from Thursday morning May 4, the rebel militia forces continued to violate the truce by targeting establishments health, water and electricity sector without respect to international law and the ethics of war and a flagrant violation of basic human rights to access health services.
The statement added: “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemns the rebel militia’s occupation of the Omdurman maternity hospital on Thursday, May 4, the expulsion of medical personnel, the expulsion of pregnant women, the looting of money and the transformation of the hospital into a military barracks.”
He continued, “Rebel militia forces have resorted to targeting the electricity sector by disabling the central control station and preventing engineers from maintaining electricity supply lines.
“The systematic targeting of the electricity and sanitation sectors, the occupation of citizens’ homes and their use as human shields are acts of terrorism and a flagrant violation of international humanitarian and human rights law,” he said. he declared.
The statement concludes by calling on “the international community, the World Health Organization and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to condemn the heinous acts of the rebel militias and to hold them legally accountable for depriving citizens of the right to health. and endanger their and use food, medicine, diet, health, water and electricity services as a means of warfare, which exposes them to legal liability before national justice mechanisms and international.
Ceasefire talks
On Friday evening, the Sudanese army announced that it had sent negotiators to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to discuss a ceasefire.
The army said in a statement posted on its Facebook page: “As part of the Saudi-American initiative that has been put forward since the beginning of the crisis, a delegation of the Sudanese Armed Forces left this evening (Friday ) in Jeddah to discuss the details of the truce which is renewed.
No official reaction has yet been issued by the Rapid Support Forces.
Rapid Support Forces Commander Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo (Hamedti) had earlier announced that he had discussed with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry the current crisis in Sudan and ways to achieve a ceasefire. fire.
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