Sudan cease-fire plan linked to partition

A US cease-fire proposal to pause Sudan’s civil war could push the country towards a Libya-style partition in its current form, reports Internazionale. This is according to a top adviser to Sudan’s army-led authorities in some of the strongest criticism by a Sudanese official of the plan so far, according to Reuters. The remarks come a week after army leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s visa to attend the UN General Assembly in New York had been withheld because he had not yet accepted the proposal. Sudan’s army has been fighting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces since April 2023, when the two fell out over issues including how to integrate their forces in a planned transition to civilian rule. The proposal, put forward by US senior adviser for Arab and African Affairs Massad Boulos, would impose a 90-day ceasefire, followed by negotiations to end the war and resume the move to civilian rule. Amjad Farid, an adviser to Burhan on political and international affairs, said that the army-led government had presented its proposed changes to the deal, chief among them an internationally monitored withdrawal of the RSF from urban areas, but the US had appeared to ignore them. ‘Mr Boulos seems to be putting pressure on us to accept a de facto partitioning of the country similar to the Libyan model he said, from New York where he attended the General Assembly. The US State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Last week, it said neither the RSF nor the armed forces ‘represent legitimate, constitutional governance for Sudan’.

Full report in Internazionale