Sudan rejects UN's call for 'impartial' force to protect civilians

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8 September 2024 at 10:53 am·1-min read

Sudan has rejected a call by United Nations experts for the deployment of an "independent and impartial force" to protect millions of civilians driven from their homes by more than a year of war.

Since April 2023, the conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and triggered one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.

The conflict pits the national army led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of his former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.

A UN fact-finding mission said Friday its probe had uncovered "harrowing" violations by both sides and called for "an independent and impartial force with a mandate to safeguard civilians" to be urgently deployed.

But the Sudanese foreign ministry, which is loyal to the army under al-Burhan, said in a statement late Saturday that "the Sudanese government rejects in their entirety the recommendations of the UN mission".

It called the UN Human Rights Council, which created the fact-finding mission last year, "a political and illegal body", and the panel's recommendations "a flagrant violation of their mandate".

UN mission calls for peacekeeping force in Sudan, suspects war crimes

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The statement accused the Rapid Support Forces of "systematically targeting civilians and civilian institutions".

"The protection of civilians remains an absolute priority for the Sudanese government," it said.

(with AFP)

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