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Cairo is witnessing the opening of the Sudanese Political and Civil Forces Conference, which aims to bring together the concerned parties to confront the Sudanese crisis that has been ongoing since April 2023.
The opening session was chaired by the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Badr Abdelatty, in the presence of representatives of the United Nations, the African Union and the European Union, in addition to the League of Arab States and representatives of other countries with an interest in Sudanese affairs.
During the opening speech, Abdelatty stressed the necessity of reaching a solution that includes all parties without exception, stressing that the solution must start from within Sudan itself.
He also stressed the preservation of Sudan’s unity and territorial integrity, noting the essential role of the armed forces in protecting the state.
For his part, the head of the Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, addressed the current situation with strong statements about armed conflicts, accusing the Rapid Support Forces of fueling the conflict and targeting detention centers containing ISIS members, which complicated the situation on the ground.
The United Nations issued a recent report indicating that the conflicts in the West Darfur region led to the deaths of between 10,000 and 15,000 people over the past year, due to ethnic violence.
In addition, Human Rights Watch issued a report accusing the Rapid Support Forces of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the context of ethnic cleansing campaigns against non-Arab tribes.
Other similar meetings and conferences were previously held, such as the Juba Forum, which was held from September 26 to 30, 2009, and reached the “Juba Declaration for Dialogue and National Consensus,” and the National Dialogue Conference in Sudan in 2015, with the participation of the then Sudanese government and a group of the opposition, but it did not succeed. In achieving tangible results, in addition to the Sudanese-Sudanese talks that began in December 2021 under Ethiopian sponsorship but stopped in January 2022 due to disagreements over the mechanisms of political transition.
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