The United States and Saudi Arabia have issued a joint statement calling on the warring sides in Sudan to extend the current ceasefire, which is set to expire at 9:45 pm [19:45 GMT] on Monday. The statement urged Sudan’s military government and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to continue negotiations to reach an agreement on extending the ceasefire. The conflict, which broke out in mid-April, has killed hundreds of people, wounded thousands, and forced nearly 1.4 million people out of their homes to safer areas inside Sudan or to neighboring nations, according to the UN migration agency. Both military chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo led the 2021 coup that removed the Western-backed government of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok.
The joint statement acknowledged that the ceasefire is imperfect but emphasized that an extension would facilitate the delivery of urgently needed humanitarian assistance to the Sudanese people. The statement comes as weeks of fighting have reached a deadlock in the capital and elsewhere in the African country.
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