Sudan’s Transitional Prime Minister Idris Unveils UN-Backed Peace Initiative Including Ceasefire

Sudan’s transitional prime minister Idris unveiled a peace initiative before the UN Security Council that he said includes a ceasefire, monitoring and disarmament of the RSF, and humanitarian issues to “protect civilians, end the atrocities, restore the state's authority, and pave the way for national reconciliation.”

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Idris said the plan requires “a full ceasefire under joint monitoring by the United Nations, the African Union, and the Arab League,” alongside “the withdrawal of the rebel militia from all areas it occupies.”

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He also called for militia fighters to withdraw and regroup in agreed camps under joint supervision ensured by the United Nations and African and Arab actors, and for “the safe return of internally displaced persons to their home regions” and the “unfettered flow of humanitarian aid.”

The initiative was framed against a war that the source says has wracked Sudan since April 15, 2023, when fighting erupted between the FAS and the RSF, “killing tens of thousands and displacing millions inside the country and beyond its borders.”

Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied what Masad Boulos, the U.S. president’s senior adviser for Arab and African affairs, said about the Transitional Sovereign Council rejecting an American paper to end the war.

The ministry said Boulos’s remarks before the UN Security Council on Friday about the council’s rejection of the paper were “inaccurate and did not reflect the positions” upheld by the Government of Sudan and its institutions, including the Transitional Sovereign Council.

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It said Khartoum has engaged positively with initiatives and pointed to signing the Jeddah Declaration on May 11, 2023, and agreeing to “a number of humanitarian ceasefires.”

The ministry also reiterated that any effort to end the war should include stopping the external supply of weapons and mercenaries to the rebel militia and ending political and diplomatic support that allows it to continue military operations, while urging realism and objectivity.

The source adds that Boulos said the Transitional Council repeatedly rejected the ceasefire proposal, including updated text submitted by the United States that morning, and that the U.S. is working on a mechanism to support implementation, coordination, monitoring, and supervision.

Egypt said on Thursday, December 18, that it has “full support for the vision” of U.S. President Donald Trump for peace in Sudan during a Cairo visit by the head of the Sudanese army whom Egypt regards as the legitimate representative of power.

“This initiative, which includes a ceasefire, the monitoring and disarmament of the RSF, as well as humanitarian issues, provides a realistic, workable, and inclusive framework to protect civilians, end the atrocities, restore the state's authority, and pave the way for national reconciliation, he announced before the Security Council”

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In a statement, the office of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi expressed “full support for Donald Trump's vision” for establishing security, stability and peace in Sudan, as part of an approach to preventing escalation and resolving conflicts around the world.

The source says Trump expressed willingness in November to end the “atrocities” in Sudan, describing the conflict as a “two and a half years of war” between the Sudanese army under General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries of General Mohamed Daglo.

It also says Egypt warns that escalation of violence along its border “directly affects Egypt's national security,” which it says is “inextricably linked to Sudan's national security,” while calling for “unity and the territorial integrity” of Sudan threatened by “parallel authorities.”

The article further notes that peace negotiations led by the United States with the so-called Quad mediator group have so far not succeeded in yielding a result, and that the RSF have accused Egypt of providing direct military support to Burhan’s troops, which Egyptian authorities deny.