Sudanese army leader receives Turkish mediators in new effort to end war

Ankara offers to address alleged UAE support for paramilitaries

Jan. 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The leader of the Sudanese Army and the country’s strongman, Abdel Fattá al Burhan, received this past Saturday a delegation of Turkish mediators in an effort to reactivate peace attempts in the African country, absolutely devastated after the outbreak of the armed conflict against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the reactivation of intercommunal clashes in the western region of Darfur.

Türkiye is currently trying to get the United Arab Emirates to suspend its support for the RSF. The Dubai authorities have always denied this support but the Turkish president hinted at a certain connection between the two during the call he had with Al Burhan in December and UN observers were convinced of the relationship during an evaluation carried out in January of last year.

If Turkey achieves its objective, Al Burhan would withdraw the complaints presented by the Sudanese authorities against the Emirates before regional and international organizations, according to information from the newspaper ‘Sudan Tribune’, but it remains to be seen what his request for the United Arab Emirates to compensate remains to be seen. the destruction of infrastructure and the prolongation of the conflict caused by the military equipment it allegedly provides to the RSF.

The Turkish delegation was led by the country’s deputy foreign minister, Burhanettin Duran, who also met with his Sudanese counterpart Ali Youssif.

The RSF has not commented on these latest approaches at a time when the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has confirmed that five areas of the country are already in a situation of famine and that Five more are about to suffer the same fate no later than May 2025.

To give an example of the difficulty in counting war deaths, a recent report from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine estimated that 61,000 people have died in Khartoum alone since the war began in April 2023. June 2024.

Of these, 26,000 people would have died as a direct result of the violence and the rest due to the associated humanitarian crisis, according to the report, which notes that these estimates are the minimum attributable and there is no way to verify them.