WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Sudanese army chief General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan in a phone call on Tuesday discussed the need to urgently end the war in Sudan, the State Department said.
The two sides also discussed ways to enable uninterrupted humanitarian access, including cross-border and cross-line, to end the suffering of the Sudanese people.
Sudan has been facing a civil war since April 2023 between the Sudanese army, led by Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
Thousands of civilians are estimated to have been killed in the civil war in African state.
Blinken discussed a resumption of peace negotiations with Burhan and the need to defuse hostilities and protect civilians in Al-Fashir city, in the Darfur region, the State Department said.
Recent attacks near Al-Fashir have ended the local truce that saved the city from the civil war.
Egypt will host a meeting next month bringing together Sudan’s civilian political groups with other regional and international parties, said the Egyptian foreign ministry said.
The conference aims to reach an agreement between Sudan’s civilian groups on ways to build a permanent peace and comprehensive, it added.
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