Clashes could be heard in southern Khartoum on Sunday as envoys from Sudan’s warring parties were in Saudi Arabia for talks that international mediators hope will end a three-week conflict that has killed hundreds and triggered an exodus.
The US-Saudi initiative is the first serious attempt to end fighting between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that has turned parts of the Sudanese capital into war zones, derailing a widely supported plan international to inaugurate civilian rule. years of unrest and riots, and created a humanitarian crisis.
Saudi Arabia will award $100 million in humanitarian aid to Sudan, Saudi state television Al Ekhbariya reported on Sunday.
Battles since mid-April have killed hundreds and injured thousands more, disrupted aid supplies and sent 100,000 refugees overseas.
Manahil Salah, a 28-year-old laboratory doctor on an evacuation flight from Port Sudan to the United Arab Emirates, said his family hid for three days at their home near army headquarters in the capital before traveling finally on the coast of the Red Sea.
“Yes, I’m glad I survived,” she said. “But I feel deep sadness that I left my mother and father in Sudan, and sad that all this pain is happening in my homeland.”
Thousands of people are pushing to leave Port Sudan on boats for Saudi Arabia, either by paying for expensive commercial flights through the country’s only functioning airport or by using evacuation flights.
As mediators seek a path to peace, both sides have made it clear they will only discuss a humanitarian truce, not negotiate an end to the war.
Source: Terra
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