UNITED NATIONS — The United States is urging beefed-up U.N. sanctions against the warring parties in Sudan to build pressure on them to negotiate an end to the fighting that has killed at least 59,000 people , displaced some 13 million and pushed many parts of the African nation into famine .
“Our souls and destiny are in God’s hands,” he said while attending the graduation ceremony of new police officers in the capital, Khartoum. “Our message to those staying in hotels abroad and cheering at sanctions that are meant to subjugate the Sudanese people is the following: The people will not be broken, but we will break and defeat you.”
Security Council would expand the arms embargo throughout Sudan. Experts say Sudan’s army and the RSF are competing to obtain new drone models. The conflict exploded from a power struggle that emerged following Sudan’s transition to democracy after an uprising forced the military ouster of longtime autocratic President Omar al-Bashir in April 2019.
President Donald Trump’s senior adviser for Arab and African affairs, Massad Boulos, told the U.N. He said the Security Council has the tools to curtail the provision of “a tremendous and increasing amount of military support to both warring parties” from “numerous external actors. Boulos said a proposed U.S. resolution before the U.N. It also would apply “to all parties operating in the territory” and reaffirm that drones and related technologies are part of the arms embargo. Rights groups have said the use of unmanned aircraft has become increasingly common in the northeast African nation’s war . Burhan said Monday that new sanctions would not deter his troops from carrying on with their war until all RSF-controlled areas are captured, according to the army-controlled SUNA news agency. U.N. political chief Rosemary DiCarlo told the Security Council that despite numerous diplomatic efforts to get government and paramilitary leaders to start negotiations and end hostilities, “the parties remain locked in a zero-sum military logic.”
Security Council on Monday that financial, military and political support given to either the government forces or the rival paramilitary group, Rapid Support Forces, remains a driver of the conflict, now in its fourth year .
