Sudan puts an ‘immediate’ end to UN political mission

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.

Toward the end of the meeting, the representative of Khartoum unexpectedly announced the government’s decision to cease the mission.

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.

Following nearly seven months of conflict between the Sudanese army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces led by General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo, “almost 25 million people in Sudan now need humanitarian aid,” Martin Griffiths, the UN’s chief of humanitarian operations, said on Monday.

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Sudan puts an ‘immediate’ end to UN political mission

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.

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