Staff Writer
Can the warring parties in Sudan choose peace after more than a hundred days of bloodshed and destruction?
It was “time for peace,” according to a top envoy to Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on Monday, July 24.
Youssef Ezzat made his remarks while taking part in negotiations in Togo that tried to stop the conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region from escalating.
“Peace is something we all seek. The Sudanese people desire peace, xx acknowledged.
“Sudanese people have endured war for decades in places like Darfur, the Blue Nile, South Sudan, East Sudan, and currently in Khartoum, the country’s capital. Now is the time to put an end to the conflict and usher in a new era of peace, progress, justice, and equality for all Sudanese. What we do is are seeking, and I believe the time for peace in Sudan has come.
In order to cease the fighting in Darfur and in Sudan, Ezzat stated that his side would take part in “any kind of meeting for peace and bringing people together.”
On the frontlines, violence continued on Monday with no signs of stopping.
establishing a plan to end violence
The development of the plan was praised by a representative of a significant Darfur rebel group participating at the Lomé negotiations.
“To stop the area from degenerating into anarchy. Although it is currently in a state of disarray, there is no active civil war.
“That’s what we’re trying to avoid, so we put together a road map and an action plan that we could carry out and get to work on,with other local authorities, leaders in Darfur, and even leaders within Sudan itself.”
Some of the bloodiest incidents of violence throughout the conflict occurred in Darfur, in western Sudan.
The area had another deadly battle in the early 2000s from which it never fully recovered.
In order to send in humanitarian relief, the representatives in Togo’s capital talked about options to reopen El-Geneina Airport in Darfur under RSF authority.
After rights activists in Darfur accused the RSF and affiliated Arab militias of being responsible for documented crimes in their stronghold there, including rape, looting, and the mass murder of ethnic minorities, the Togo discussions took place.
The leader of the paramilitary RSF forces and Sudan’s army chief, his former deputy, are engaged in a violent power struggle.
Khartoum and other cities have become battlegrounds since April 15 as a result of the conflict. Ethnic confrontations were witnessed throughout the fighting in the vast expanse of Darfur.
Sudanese expectations of reviving the nation’s precarious transition to democracy, which had started when a populist movement drove the military to overthrow longstanding tyrant Omar al-Bashir in April 2019, were dashed by the violence. In October 2021, the military and RSF staged a coup that halted the democratic transition.
In the meantime, Sudanese lawmakers were meeting for the first time since the start of the war on Monday (July 24) afternoon in Cairo, the capital of Egypt.
