“No negotiation, no truce” with RSF, says senior Sudanese official | War in Sudan News

The comments come days after Prime Minister Kamil Idris presented a plan to end the war that has ravaged the country for almost three years.

A senior official of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC) has ruled out any negotiations with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), as fighting continues to devastate the country.

“There is no truce or negotiation with any occupier, and the just peace that Sudan desires will be achieved through the road map and vision of its people and government,” Malik Agar Ayyir, vice president of the TSC, said in a statement released Thursday by the Ministry of Culture, Media and Tourism.

Addressing ministers and state officials in Port Sudan, the eastern city where the government is based, he rejected the narrative that the war is about establishing “democracy.” Instead, he described the war as a “conflict over resources and a desire to change the demographics of Sudan” and highlighted the opportunity to strengthen national unity.

This comes days after Sudanese Prime Minister Kamil Idris presented a plan end the country’s nearly three-year-old war before the United Nations Security Council.

In line with the position of the Sudanese army and the government, the plan stipulates that RSF fighters must withdraw from large areas of territory they have conquered by force in western and central Sudan.

They would then have to be placed in camps and disarmed, before those not involved in war crimes could be reintegrated into society.

RSF has repeatedly said rejected the idea of ​​ceding territorywith Al-Basha Tibiq, one of Commander Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo’s main advisors, describing him as “closer to fantasy than politics.”

RSF announces gains

The war, which has resulted in the forced displacement of around 14 million people, shows no signs of ending as the RSF consolidates its hold on captured territories and expands its attacks.

RSF fighters continue to commit massacres, systematic sexual violence and burial and burning of bodies in Darfur to cover up evidence of war crimes committed in recent months, according to international humanitarian agencies working on the ground.

The humanitarian situation on the ground became even more dire following the capture of El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, in October.

The RSF announced on Thursday that its forces had taken control of the Abu Qumra region in North Darfur.

They “continued their successful advance towards the Um Buru region, where they completely liberated these areas,” the group said in a statement.

Despite mounting evidence of widespread atrocities in western Sudan, RSF said the primary duty of its fighters was to “protect civilians and end the presence of remnants of armed pockets and mercenary movements.”

The group also broadcast images of its armed fighters, who claimed to be advancing towards el-Obeida strategic town in North Kordofan state.