CAIRO: Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan on Friday pledged to continue a nine-month war between the country’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), rejecting the latest peace efforts, western media reported.
According to Reuters, RSF chief Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo agreed earlier this week to a truce proposed by civilian groups, depending on the military agreeing also. But observers responded doubtfully in light of the RSF’s prior unfulfilled pledges.
The United States has alleged both the military and RSF of war crimes, and it adds the Rapid Support Forces is also responsible for crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing.
Sudan: Burhan Says ‘No Reconciliation’ with RSF
Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan told forces gathered in Port Sudan in video message released by his office, “The entire world witnessed these rebel troops committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in West Darfur and the rest of the country. Therefore, we have no reconciliation with the RSF, we have no deal with them.”
The conflict that started on April 15 has devastated wide swathes of the African country and displaced over 7.5 million people.
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Burhan on Friday rejected the truce agreement Dagalo signed in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, in the current week. He also criticized leaders of African nations including Ethiopia, South Africa, and Kenya who received Dagalo as a statesman during visits this week and politicians of Sudan who met him in Ethiopia. General Burhan said he would arm people of Sudan who wanted to fight the RSF and asked them to join the army.
