“If the Jeddah negotiations fail to stop the war, it means we cannot return to our homes and our lives,” said Tamader Ibrahim, 35, a government worker from the city of Bahri, located on the opposite bank of Khartoum to the Blue Nile. the only”.
Mahgoub Salah, a 28-year-old doctor, said the neighborhoods in the capital witnessing the violence are changing from day to day.
Salah witnessed heavy fighting and saw one of his neighbors shot in the stomach in Al-Amarat neighborhood in central Khartoum last month before renting an apartment for his family in the southeast of the capital.
Negotiations did not make “much progress”
Ceasefire negotiations between the two warring parties in Sudan, which are taking place in Saudi Arabia, have not made “much progress”, a Saudi diplomat told AFP on Monday. He continued: “A permanent ceasefire is not on the table. Each side believes it is capable of resolving the battle.
Both sides in the conflict have said they will try to address humanitarian issues only in the talks, such as opening safe passages, and will not negotiate an end to the war.
The U.S.-Saudi initiative is the first serious attempt to end the fighting that has turned areas of the Sudanese capital into battlefields and impeded the course of an internationally-backed plan to transition to civilian rule after decades. years of unrest that have caused a serious humanitarian crisis.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement that “preliminary talks began yesterday Saturday and will continue in the following days, in the hope of reaching an effective and temporary ceasefire so that humanitarian aid can be delivered to those who need it”.
The fighting since mid-April has left hundreds dead, thousands injured, disrupted the delivery of humanitarian aid and forced 100,000 people to flee.
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