Sudan’s Security Council Considers Saudi-U.S. Proposal for Ceasefire

Sudan’s Security and Defence Council is reviewing a new Saudi-U.S. initiative aimed at a ceasefire and ending the conflict that has lasted nearly three years, a government source told France Press Agency/Agence France-Presse (AFP).

The government source said, “The Council of Security and Defense, chaired by President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, is to hold a meeting to discuss the Saudi-U.S. initiative for a humanitarian truce and the announcement of a ceasefire.”

Diplomatic efforts over the past three years have failed to end the war or reach an agreement on halting the fighting.
Last November, Al-Burhan rejected a ceasefire proposal from the International Quartet on Sudan — comprising the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt — describing the proposal as “unacceptable” and the Quartet as “not neutral.”