May 26. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The head of the Army and president of the Sudanese Sovereign Transition Council, Abdelfatá al Burhan, has asked the United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, to dismiss the UN special representative in Sudan, Volker Perthes.
“The presence of Volker Perthes at the head of the UN mission does not help to implement the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Support Mission (UNITAMS),” he said, adding that his figure has become a “source of repercussions negative”, according to the chain Al Hadath has collected.
For their part, the Darfur authorities have called for the region’s cities to be included in the ceasefire agreement, while they have also asked the parties “not to deviate” from the agreement signed in the Saudi city of Jeddah.
Riyadh and Washington reiterated their commitment to the Sudanese people on Tuesday, demanding that both sides “fulfill their commitments” under a temporary humanitarian ceasefire that began on Monday, highly precarious to the point that the Sudanese army and paramilitaries Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were accused Wednesday of breaking the provisional cessation of hostilities.
The hostilities broke out in the context of an increase in tensions around the integration of the RSF into the Armed Forces, a key part of an agreement signed in December to form a new civilian government and reactivate the transition open after the overthrow in 2019 of the then president, Omar Hasan al Bashir, damaged by the coup in October 2021, in which the prime minister of unity, Abdalá Hamdok, was overthrown.
