PORT SUDAN/BRUSSELS: Sudan’s sovereign council, headed by army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, has said that it was willing to cooperate with the United States and Saudi Arabia to seek peace in the country.
In a statement, the council thanked Washington and Riyadh for “their continued efforts to stop Sudanese bloodshed,” and expressed its “readiness to seriously engage with them to achieve the peace that the Sudanese people hope for.”
It came after US President Donald Trump said he would work with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt to end the conflict between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF.
In the Belgian capital, the European Union on Thursday imposed sanctions on the deputy head of RSF over “grave and ongoing atrocities” after the capture of the city of El-Fasher.
The paramilitary RSF, at war with the regular army for more than two years, took control of El-Fasher on October 26, dislodging the army’s last stronghold in Sudan’s western Darfur region.
