The paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) rejected this Tuesday the ceasefire proposal for the end of the war in Sudan presented by the Sudanese Prime Minister, Kamil Idris, yesterday before the UN Security Council.
The main advisor to the leader of the FAR, Elbasha Tibeig, pointed out in a Facebook post that Idris’ initiative “is nothing more than a recycling of an obsolete exclusionary rhetoric, which in essence does not differ from the rhetoric” of the military leader and president of the Sovereign Council, Abdelfatah al Burhan.
The Prime Minister’s proposal includes “a comprehensive ceasefire under joint supervision of the UN, the African Union and the Arab League, coinciding with the withdrawal of rebel militias from all areas they occupy” in western and south-central Sudan.
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A withdrawal that would be followed by “the regrouping (of FAR combatants) in agreed camps, under joint supervision” of these bodies, Idris detailed on Monday before a meeting on Sudan in the UN Security Council.
For Tibeig, Idris “lacks the will and authority to speak about the end of the war, let alone launch a significant political initiative”.
Furthermore, he considered the initiative’s call for the FAR to withdraw from the areas they control and its characterization of the group as a militia to be “more fanciful than political”.
The advisor emphasized that “ignoring the existence of the other party as a partner turns any initiative into a mere facade.”
Both sides remain far from reaching an agreement, while the United States has set the beginning of 2026 as the deadline to achieve a humanitarian truce in Sudan.
The U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced during a press conference last Friday in Washington that the goal is to stop the fighting before the beginning of 2026 and reach an agreement that allows for the expansion of aid operations through a humanitarian truce.
The war in Sudan, which began in April 2023, has left tens of thousands dead and devastated the country, while generating one of the worst humanitarian crises on the planet, with more than 13 million people displaced and more than 17 million who have received humanitarian aid this year, according to UN data.
