Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamadan Dagalo, better known as “Hemedti.”Įach side blamed the other for initiating the hostilities, which came amid a pause in talks over future steps to integrate Hemedti’s estimated 100,000-strong Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia into the larger Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) under Burhan’s command. More than 600 people have been killed and more than 700,000 have been displaced since fighting erupted on April 15 between rival forces loyal to Gens. “We urgently need a high-level representative to deal with interlocutors in Africa, the Gulf and Europe, and one who reports directly to the president or the secretary of state,” Menendez said during the hearing. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) said he would press the administration “at various levels” to appoint an envoy to oversee Washington’s diplomatic engagement with Sudan. 2 top official Victoria Nuland last week, committee Chair Sen. WASHINGTON - The top two lawmakers on the Senate’s foreign relations panel called on the Biden administration to appoint a new envoy for Sudan after US-brokered talks between rival generals in Khartoum collapsed in violence last month, threatening to plunge the country into civil war.ĭuring a hearing with the State Department’s No.
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