16 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrel, has supported the proposal of the President of Kenya, William Samoei Ruto, who calls for the intervention of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an economic and integration organization to East africa.
“Full support to President William Ruto in his efforts to call on IGAD member states to contribute to the resolution of the crisis in Sudan. All efforts are welcome to find ways to support dialogue and mediation. The EU stands ready to support such efforts,” Borrel said on his Twitter account this Saturday.
The Kenyan president has shown his concern about the crisis and has asked the parties involved to resolve their differences peacefully for the safety of the Sudanese population and for stability in the region.
“The outbreak of violence will only reverse the gains Sudan has made to the detriment of lasting peace and prosperity,” Ruto wrote on his Twitter account.
The clashes have broken out just hours after the Army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) expressed their intention to start urgent negotiations to resolve their differences over the process of integrating both forces into a unified army, tensions that have paralyzed the political transition agreement in the country.
The clashes mark the culmination of weeks of discord just as the country seemed on the verge of successfully finalizing the so-called Transition Framework Agreement that provides for the handover of power to a civilian government.
