NEW YORK: Sudan’s new transitional prime minister has outlined plans for his country to be “reborn in unity” after years of brutal civil war.
Kamil El-Tayeb Idris addressed the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday, months after being appointed by his country’s Transitional Sovereignty Council under President Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan. He is Sudan’s first civilian prime minister since the resignation of Abdalla Hamdok in 2022.
In his address, Idris said his country is a “great civilization” that has been victimized by “existential dangers” at the hands of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
“I stand before you from the banks of the Nile, from the land where history runs as deep as the river itself, from where the deserts know the footprints of ancient kingdoms, ancient civilizations, and from where, in this present hour, the dust still carries the scent of war,” he added.
“Sudan has bled. Our villages and cities have fallen silent under the shadow of unprecedented war, unprecedented invasion in the history of mankind. Our children have known fear before they’ve known the meaning of life. And yet, amid the ashes of war, there’s a unique pulse that refuses to die.”
