UN aid chief says warring Sudan generals agreed to talk on humanitarian issues. He's still waiting
A top U.N. official says that two generals in Sudan whose forces have been at war for the last 10 months assured him recently that they would attend a meeting in Switzerland to discuss humanitarian issues and Sudan’s beleaguered civilians
GENEVA (AP) — A top U.N. official said Wednesday that the two generals in Sudan whose forces have been at war for the last 10 months assured him recently that they would attend a meeting in Switzerland to discuss humanitarian issues and Sudan's beleaguered civilians.
“I'm still waiting to see when that happens," Martin Griffiths, the U.N. undersecretary for humanitarian affairs, told reporters in Geneva during an appeal for more aid funding to help Sudan's people.
Sudan slipped into chaos in April after tensions between military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan and Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, commander of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, exploded into open fighting in the capital, Khartoum, and beyond. Fighting has since left at least 12,000 people dead and sent millions fleeing their homes both within Sudan and abroad.
“This is a war decided by two generals who decided to resolve their differences in a process of transition. How? Not by proceeding with an agreed plan for transition, but by deciding ‘let’s just go to war, let’s do killing instead of talking,’” Griffiths said.
