AFRICA/SUDAN - No to peace talks, while half of the Sudanese suffer from hunger

Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - " We will not retreat, we will not give up, and we will not negotiate with any entity," with these words General Abdel-Fattah Burhan, Commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces and President of the Sudanese Transitional Government, immediately after escaping the attack on July 31, rejected any hypothesis of negotiations to end the civil war.
The attack was carried out with drones that attacked the military base in Gebeit (see Fides, 31/7/2024).
"We do not fear drones, we only die when God has planned," said Burhan.
Meanwhile, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by Mohamed Hamdan "Hemedti" Dagalo have not yet claimed responsibility for the attack. The latter is Burhan's counterpart in the negotiations promoted by the United States and Saudi Arabia to end the conflict that broke out on April 15, 2023. Burhan declared his intention to continue the fight: "We will not lay down our arms until the country is cleansed of every rebel and mercenary. We are continuing to crush and eliminate the terrorist militia of the Dagalo family." Burhan's determined stance can be understood not only as a reaction to the failed assassination attempt, but also in the context of the SAF's recent territorial conquests in Omdurman, an important commercial center that, together with Khartoum and Bahri, forms the heart of Khartoum State, one of the smallest but most populous of the 18 states of the Sudanese Federation and the beating heart of the nation.
The war continues while the population is starving and on the verge of exhaustion. "More than half of the population, or 26 million people in Sudan, are now suffering from acute hunger, including 755,000 people living in catastrophic conditions, and there are also hunger-related deaths," said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. According to the UN Famine Review Committee (FRC), one of the most dramatic situations is in the Zamzam IDP camp in North Darfur, where cases of severe malnutrition are increasing.
The Zamzam refugee camp has a population of 500,000 and is located near the town of El-Fasher, which is home to 1.8 million people. The town has been under siege by the RSF for months, preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid. Darfur is the RSF's stronghold, and El-Fasher is the last stronghold in the region still in the hands of the SAF. Appeals to open humanitarian corridors to the town have so far been in vain. (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides, 2/8/2024)

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