Sudan

[…] Bankole Adeoye, AU Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, told reporters at the bloc’s headquarters in Addis Ababa that the AU is working to coordinate international mediation through a “Quintuple Mechanism” including the United Nations, IGAD, the Arab League, and the European Union. 

Sudanese Foreign Minister Mohieddin Salem called on the African Union on Thursday to end the suspension of his country’s membership, warning that external interference and regional agendas are fueling the ongoing conflict.

The Quintet (the African Union, Intergovernmental Authority on Development, League of Arab States, European Union and the United Nations), expresses grave concern at the continued escalation of the conflict in the Sudan. The Quintet calls for the immediate halting of any further military escalation, including the use of increasingly destructive means of warfare, which is inflicting devastating harm on civilians.

Escalating aerial attacks in Sudan are killing children, damaging schools and striking United Nations facilities, placing civilians and humanitarian workers at growing risk, the UN warned on Wednesday. 

Ethiopia is hosting a secret military camp to train thousands of fighters for Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to a Reuters investigation that provides the first direct evidence of Addis Ababa’s involvement in its neighbour’s devastating civil war.

The United Arab Emirates on Sunday said it welcomed a US-backed peace plan for the war in Sudan, where the Gulf country has repeatedly faced accusations of fueling the devastating conflict.

[…] In an alert issued on Thursday by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), global food security experts said famine thresholds for acute malnutrition had been surpassed in North Darfur state’s contested areas of Um Baru and Kernoi. … hursday’s alert, based on data available up to February, comes nearly three months after the IPC confirmed famine conditions in el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, and Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan, about 800km (500 miles) to the east.

[…] The South Kordofan state capital, Kadugli, where the United Nations confirmed a famine last year, had been under siege for much of Sudan’s nearly three-year war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

Sudan is now the world’s most severe humanitarian emergency, the UN’s top relief official warned on Tuesday, urging donors and diplomatic partners to act swiftly as the fighting nears a third year with no end in sight.

The attack in Dilling town comes a day after Sudan’s military declared an end to RSF siege there.