{"id":56896,"date":"2025-11-08T01:48:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=56896"},"modified":"2025-11-08T01:48:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:48:55","slug":"un-warns-of-intensified-hostilities-in-sudan-after-rsf-backs-truce-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/08\/un-warns-of-intensified-hostilities-in-sudan-after-rsf-backs-truce-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"UN warns of \u2018intensified hostilities\u2019 in Sudan after RSF backs truce plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sudan Events – Agencies<\/strong><\/p>\n

The United Nations has warned of \u201cintensified hostilities\u201d ahead in Sudan, despite paramilitary forces endorsing a truce proposal from mediators after more than two years of war with the regular army.<\/p>\n

UN human rights chief Volker Turk on Friday said \u201cthere is no sign of de-escalation\u201d in the war.
\n\u201cDevelopments on the ground indicate clear preparations for intensified hostilities, with everything that implies for its long-suffering people,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had responded positively to a ceasefire idea proposed by the Quad, a group comprising international mediators \u2013 the United States, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

However, the government, backed by the army, has yet to respond to the proposal, and explosions rocked the army-controlled capital Khartoum on Friday.<\/p>\n

The attacks took place early Friday, targeting Omdurman, part of the greater Khartoum area, and army-held Atbara to the north of the capital, and were intercepted by the army\u2019s air defence systems, according to Al Jazeera\u2019s Hiba Morgan, who was reporting from Khartoum.
\nThe RSF has been fighting the government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) for more than two years of brutal civil war.<\/p>\n

The ceasefire plan would see a three-month humanitarian pause followed by a permanent ceasefire that would ostensibly pave the way for an eventual political transition to civilian rule.<\/p>\n

A Sudanese military official told the news agency The Associated Press on Thursday that the army welcomed the proposal, but would only agree to a truce when the RSF completely withdraws from civilian areas and gives up weapons.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera\u2019s Morgan said that it seemed the army would continue fighting until the RSF met its conditions. The RSF, for its part, would also continue fighting until the army agreed to the Quad\u2019s proposal, she said.
\nKhartoum has seen relative calm since the regular army regained control this year, but the RSF continues to mount attacks in several regions.<\/p>\n

Conflict shifts east<\/strong>
\nOn Thursday, the Sudan Tribune newspaper reported diplomatic claims that the US had tried to incentivise army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan to agree to the truce in exchange for lifting sanctions and granting investment opportunities in the mining sector.<\/p>\n

The RSF\u2019s announcement that it agreed to the truce comes more than a week after the group seized el-Fasher city, which had been under siege for more than 18 months. It was also the last Sudanese military stronghold in Sudan\u2019s western Darfur region.
\nThat takeover was accompanied by reports of mass killings, sexual violence and looting, triggering international condemnation. There are now fears of further atrocities as the conflict shifts east towards Khartoum and the oil-rich Kordofan region.<\/p>\n

In South Kordofan, a medical source told AFP news agency the RSF shelled a hospital in besieged Dilling on Thursday, killing five and injuring five more.<\/p>\n

The Sudan Doctors\u2019 Union said the attack also destroyed the facility\u2019s radiology department. Dilling, under RSF siege since June 2023, lies about 150 kilometres (90 miles) southwest of army-controlled el-Obeid, a key crossroads linking Darfur to Khartoum.<\/p>\n

Much of the wider Kordofan region, meanwhile, faces a worsening humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n

The Rome-based Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said Dilling is now at risk of famine, while South Kordofan\u2019s capital, Kadugli, is already facing one.<\/p>\n

Quad member UAE is accused by the UN of supplying arms to the RSF, allegations it has vehemently denied.<\/p>\n

Asked on Sunday about the allegations, senior UAE diplomat Anwar Gargash said that the international community made a \u201ccritical mistake\u201d in supporting both al-Burhan and rival RSF commander General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as \u201cHemedti\u201d, when they deposed a Western-backed power-sharing government in 2021.
\nWar broke out in 2023 when tensions erupted between al-Burhan and Dagalo, killing at least 40,000 people, according to the World Health Organization. Aid groups say the true death toll could be many times higher.<\/p>\n

The worst suffering has befallen the civilian population in what the UN has called the world\u2019s worst humanitarian disaster.<\/p>\n

Source: Al Jazeera<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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