Government of Khartoum addressed a letter to the UN Secretary General, which presents the latest developments arising from the conflict.
The Government of Sudan asked the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, for “the immediate end” of the UN mission, as it was out of step with its purposes, and no longer responded to the country’s needs and priorities. Sudan at the UN, Al-Harith Idriss Al-Harith, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ali Elsadig Ali, informed António Guterres of the “decision of the Sudanese Government to terminate the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS)” The letter was also distributed to members of the Security Council, which met to discuss the conflict in Sudan, according to AFP.
However, Khartoum “will continue to work constructively with the United Nations.” Before the Security Council, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Africa, Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, denounced the spread of the conflict in Sudan, which already has the largest number of displaced people in the world.
The United Nations has called for an investigation into the possible wave of ethnic crimes perpetrated by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) against the Masalit community, in the Sudanese region of Darfur.
During the Security Council meeting, the United Nations expressed concern at the news about the deaths of “hundreds” of civilians from the Masalit community in attacks by the RSF and allied Arab militias in the Darfur region.
“It is yet another ethnically motivated mass attack against non-Arab Masalit civilians in West Darfur in recent months,” said UN Human Rights Office spokesman Jeremy Laurence.
“Preliminary information we have obtained from survivors and witnesses suggests that Masalit civilians suffered six days of terror at the hands of the RSF and its allied militias after they took control of the army base in Ardamata on 4 November.” , said Jeremy Laurence.
“Some of the victims were summarily executed or burned alive,” explained the UN spokesperson. On November 5 alone, “66 men from Masalit were summarily executed and hundreds of others were arrested and taken to RSF detention camps, whose fate is unknown,” he said.
The UN, which is calling for independent investigations into these reports, said this is the second alleged wave of killings of Masalit civilians by the RSF and its allies in the space of a few months, following the May-June one, in which several hundred were already killed. dead. There are also credible reports of reprisal killings of Arab civilians by Masalit militias.
On Sunday, the European Union (EU) declared itself “shocked” by the “credible reports” of “more than a thousand Masalit deaths” in just a few days in Darfur, as part of what appears to be an “ethnic cleansing” campaign carried out carried out by the RSF to “eradicate” this tribe.
Spread of the conflict
At Friday’s meeting, the UN Secretary-General’s deputy for Africa told the Security Council that the conflict in Sudan is spreading to other regions of the country, which already has the largest number of displaced people in the world.
Ghanaian diplomat Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee alarmed the Security Council that “Sudan is facing a convergence of worsening humanitarian calamities and a catastrophic human rights crisis.” After nearly seven months of conflict between the Sudanese Army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo, “almost 25 million people in Sudan now need help humanitarian aid,” the UN’s head of humanitarian operations, Martin Griffiths, said recently.
Begun on April 15 this year, the war between the Army and paramilitaries left more than 9,000 dead, according to an estimate by the NGO Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (Acled), which is widely considered an underestimate.
“Outside Darfur, deadly clashes continued in Khartoum, Omdurman and Bahri and also persist in South Kordofan, while the situation remains tense around El-Obeid and North Kordofan”, detailed Akyaa Pobee, cited by Efe. But “hostilities have spread to new regions, such as the states of Gezira, White Nile and West Kordofan, exposing more civilians and aid workers to the risk of violence.