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2023-07-26 Africa Horn

Peace talks for Sudan's western region of Darfur held in Lom

[AFRICANEWS] After more than 100 days of violence and destruction can Sudanese warring powers choose peace?

A top envoy to Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on Monday (Jul. 24) said it was "time for peace".

Youssef Ezzat made his remarks in Togo where he was attending talks aimed at preventing Sudan's Darfur region from sliding deeper into war.

"We're all looking for peace. The Sudanese people are looking for peace," xx conceded.

"Sudanese people are suffering from war for decades in regions like Darfur, in Blue Nile, in South Sudan and East Sudan and now in the capital in Khartoum, so this is the time to end the war and to start a new future for Sudanese people, peace, development, justice and equality. That's what we are looking for and I think it's time for peace in Sudan."

Ezzat added his side would participate in any "kind of meeting for peace and bringing people together, and stop the war in Darfur and in Sudan."

On the frontline, fighting showed no sign of abating on Monday.

Not even a hudna? Okay, then.

CREATING A ROADMAP TO STOP VIOLENCE
A representative from a key Darfur rebel faction attending the Lomé talks, welcomed the creation of roadmap.

"To prevent the region from plunging into a state of chaos. It is now in a state of chaos but not in a full fledged civil war."

"That's what we are trying to avert, that is why we put a roadmap and an action plan where we could follow through that and work with other community leaders, other leaders within Darfur, even within Sudan itself."

Darfur, in western Sudan, saw some of the worst bouts of violence in the conflict.

In the early 2000s, the region another bloody war which it it never fully recovered.

The representatives in Togo's capital discussed ways of reopening Darfur's El-Geneina airport under RSF control, to bring in humanitarian aid

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The Togo talks came after rights campaigners in Darfur blamed the RSF and allied Arab militias for reported atrocities in their stronghold there, including rape, looting and the mass killings of ethnic minorities.

Posted by Fred 2023-07-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top
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#1 "The Togo talks came after rights campaigners in Darfur blamed the RSF and allied Arab militias for reported atrocities in their stronghold there, including rape, looting and the mass killings of ethnic minorities.
The Khartoum military dictatorship has certainly learned by now how to use propaganda. The RSF is led by Muslim Zaghawa, an ethnic Minority. The Zaghawa of Darfur, along with the Fur, suffered constant attacks by elements commanded by Nile Arab officers. Reports out of Khartoum continually use the term "RSF and allied Arab militias." However, the Arab militias are never noted. The phrase is used to cover the fact that what is occurring is an Arab-African struggle to end Nile Arab control of the Sudan's periphery. "Mass killings of ethnic minorities" is a mendacious claim used by the Khartoum military to cover its years of attacks on Darfur's ethinic minorities. "Peace"is a nice thought, but regretfully as long as Nile Arabs control the military it will never occur.

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