"UNITED NATIONS INTEGRATED TRANSITION ASSISTANCE MISSION IN SUDAN - UNITAMS"

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan, Volker Perthes, said that the increased suffering of the people in the country “is not a result of aid organizations not being there or aid organizations not doing anything. The suffering of the people is a result of a war.” UNIFEED / FILE

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan, Volker Perthes, said that the short-term ceasefire signed by both sides of the conflict “is supposed to enter into force tonight, it shall remain in effect for 7 days, it is renewable, and it should allow civilians to move and humanitarian access to get to the people.” UNIFEED

The signing of an agreement by the Sudanese warring parties in the Saudi Arabian port city of Jeddah on Thursday night is a “first important step toward alleviating human suffering and protecting the lives of civilians in Sudan”, the UN’s top official in the country, Volker Perthes, said. UNTV CH

The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, warned the Security Council that “the power struggle in Sudan is not only putting that country’s future at risk”, but it is also “lighting a fuse that could detonate across borders, causing immense suffering for years, and setting development back by decades.” UNIFEED

“The Secretary-General will attend a virtual meeting tomorrow on Sudan which is convened and bringing together the Chairperson of the African Union, the Secretary-General of the Arab League and also the Executive Secretary of IGAD and other relevant organizations,” a UN spokesperson said. UNIFEED

The head of the UN Mission in Sudan said there have been over 180 fatalities and more than 1800 injured in Sudan, “Including three colleagues from World Food Programme, who have been killed while trying to serve the Sudanese people in North Darfur." UNIFEED

The head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan, Volker Perthes, said that Sudanese stakeholders “are closer than they have ever been to a settlement and the return to a civilian government.” UNIFEED

Despite multiple remaining crises, top official in Sudan expresses optimism for two-year transitional phase leading to civilian rule, democratic elections.

The head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan, Volker Perthes, said that on Monday, the military leadership and a broad range of civilian actors signed up to a political framework agreement to lay the ground for a final political accord and the formation of a new civilian government, leading the country towards recovery and democratic elections. UNIFEED