UN chief calls for ending ‘external interference’ in Sudan’s conflict

By Betul Yilmaz

ISTANBUL (AA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Monday for ending “external interference” in the ongoing war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

“It is clear that we have not only a Sudanese problem with an army and the Rapid Support Forces fighting each other. We have more and more, an external interference that undermines the possibility to a ceasefire and to a political solution of the problem,” Guterres told reporters on the sidelines of the 47th ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

“It is the right time for the international community to tell clearly to all countries that are interfering in this war and that are providing weapons to the parties to the war, to stop doing that because the level of suffering that we are witnessing in Sudan is unbearable.”

Fighting continued to rage between the army and the RSF since the conflict first erupted in April 2023, killing thousands and displacing millions.