Posted on 11/20/2024 9:58:16 AM PST by SunkenCiv
By the text, the 15-member Council would have condemned the continued assault by the Rapid Support Forces in El Fasher and demanded that it immediately halt all its attacks against civilians in Darfur, Al Jazirah State and Sennar State and elsewhere in Sudan. Further, the Council would have demanded that the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces honour and fully implement their commitments made in the Jeddah Declaration of Commitment to Protect the Civilians of Sudan, including to take all feasible precautions to avoid and minimize civilian harm, refrain from using civilians as human shields and safeguard the needs and necessities indispensable to their survival.
By other terms, the Council would have called on the parties to the conflict to immediately cease hostilities and engage, in good faith, in dialogue to agree steps to de-escalate the conflict towards urgent agreement on a national ceasefire, as well as on humanitarian pauses and arrangements to ensure the safe passage of civilians and the delivery of adequate humanitarian aid. Additionally, it would have called on the warring parties to ensure that civilian objects, including hospitals, schools, places of worship and humanitarian facilities, as well as humanitarian and medical personnel and their means of transport, are protected from attack, consistent with international humanitarian law.
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Russia Switches Sides in Sudan War | Andrew McGrego | Eurasia Daily Monitor | July 8, 2024The Kremlin is backing away from its support of the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan's ongoing internal war. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov confirmed Moscow's gradual shift on April 29 during a visit to Port Sudan (Sudan Tribune, April 29). Russia once saw RSF leader Muhammad Hamdan Daglo "Hemetti" as vital to establishing a Russian port on the Red Sea in Port Sudan (see EDM, November 14, 2023). The situation has since changed. Before his death, notorious Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin worked closely with the RSF, supplying arms in return for gold (see Terrorism Monitor, December 15, 2023). Simultaneously, however, the Kremlin maintained open channels with their opposition, the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC) government. Moscow is now exploiting these openings.
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