{"id":60864,"date":"2026-02-22T14:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=60864"},"modified":"2026-02-22T14:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:44:09","slug":"washington-and-london-stress-need-for-humanitarian-truce-in-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/washington-and-london-stress-need-for-humanitarian-truce-in-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington and London Stress Need for Humanitarian Truce in Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The U.S. State Department\u2019s Deputy Spokesperson, Tommy Pigott, announced that Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to discuss a range of shared concerns, including Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine and developments in Syria and Gaza. Both sides, he said, underscored their \u201cshared focus on securing a humanitarian ceasefire in Sudan.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The meeting followed a series of bilateral and multilateral engagements centered on Sudan, aimed at building momentum ahead of a United Nations Security Council session chaired by the United Kingdom. The session emphasized the urgency of ending the war and achieving a humanitarian truce to facilitate aid delivery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The U.S. Departments of State and Treasury also issued a joint statement following sanctions imposed on three RSF leaders, reiterating the need to end the war in Sudan. The statement stressed that a humanitarian ceasefire should precede efforts to ensure the delivery of food assistance to affected civilians.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. State Department\u2019s Deputy Spokesperson, Tommy Pigott, announced that Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to discuss a range of shared concerns, including Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine and developments in Syria and Gaza. Both sides, he said, underscored their \u201cshared focus on securing a humanitarian ceasefire in Sudan.\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60865,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60864\/revisions\/60865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}