The Sudanese government has requested the United Nations to immediately terminate its political mission in the country, according to a letter sent to the UN Security Council.
Foreign Minister Ali Elsadig Ali informed UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres of Sudan’s decision to end the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), which has employed hundreds of civilians since 2020.
The documents were circulated among the Security Council members on the evening that they were convened to discuss the Sudanese conflict.
According to Al-Harith Idriss Al-Harith, UNITAMS no longer meets the “needs and priorities” of Sudan.
Yet, he assured that Khartoum would “continue to work constructively with the United Nations.”That same evening, UN Under-Secretary-General for Africa, Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, warned that the conflict in Sudan was spreading to other regions of a country already housing the world’s highest number of displaced people.
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