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UN Security Council considers action on Sudan war

Smoke billows above residential buildings in Khartoum. The violence erupted during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan

United Nations, Nov 12 — The United Nations Security Council is discussing a British-drafted resolution that demands Sudan’s warring parties to cease hostilities and calls on them to allow safe, rapid and unhindered deliveries of aid across front lines and borders.

War erupted in April 2023 from a power struggle between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ahead of a planned transition to civilian rule and triggered the world’s largest displacement crisis.

It has produced waves of ethnically driven violence blamed largely on the RSF. The RSF has denied harming civilians in Sudan and attributed the activity to rogue actors. In the first U.N. sanctions imposed during the current conflict, a Security Council committee designated two RSF generals last week.

“Nineteen months into the war, both sides are committing egregious human rights violations, including the widespread rape of women and girls,” Britain’s U.N. ambassador, Barbara Woodward, told reporters at the start of this month as Britain assumed the Security Council’s presidency for November.

“More than half the Sudanese population are experiencing severe food insecurity,” she said. “Despite this, the SAF and the RSF remain focussed on fighting each other and not the famine and suffering facing their country.”

People wait to receive food cards after registering as new arrivals at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) in Agari, South Kordofan, on June 17, 2024. More than 10 million people have been displaced within war-torn Sudan, according to figures released on June 11 by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Britain wanted to put the draft resolution to a vote as quickly as possible, diplomats said. To be adopted, a resolution needs at least nine votes in favour and no vetoes by the U.S., France, Britain, Russia or China.

The U.N. says nearly 25 million people – half of Sudan’s population – need aid as famine has taken hold in displacement camps and 11 million people have fled their homes. Nearly 3 million of those people have left for other countries.

Britain’s draft text “demands that the Rapid Support Forces immediately halt its offensives” throughout Sudan, “and demands that the warring parties immediately cease hostilities.”

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