“Sudanese Pin Hopes on Jeddah Talks to End Conflict and Allow for Return Home”

“If the Jeddah negotiations fail to stop the war, then this means that we will not be able to return to our homes and our lives,” said Tamader Ibrahim, 35, a government employee in the city of Bahri, which is located on the opposite bank of Khartoum from the Blue Nile. the only”.

Mahgoub Salah, a 28-year-old doctor, said that the areas of the capital that witness violence change from day to day.

Salah was a witness to fierce fighting and saw one of his neighbors get shot in the stomach in the Al-Amarat neighborhood in central Khartoum last month, before renting an apartment for his family in the southeast of the capital.

Negotiations have not made “much progress”

• Ceasefire negotiations between the two warring parties in Sudan, which are being held in Saudi Arabia, have not made “much progress,” a Saudi diplomat told AFP on Monday.
• He continued, “A permanent ceasefire is not on the table. Each side believes that it is able to resolve the battle.”

The two parties to the conflict said that they would try to address humanitarian issues in the talks only, such as opening safe passages, and would not negotiate a cessation of war.

The US-Saudi initiative is the first serious attempt to end the fighting that has turned areas of the Sudanese capital into battlefields, and obstructed the course of an internationally supported plan to transition to civilian rule after years of turmoil that caused a severe humanitarian crisis.

The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that “preliminary talks began yesterday, Saturday, and will continue during the following days, in the hope of reaching an effective and temporary ceasefire so that humanitarian aid can be delivered to those in need.”

The fighting since mid-April has killed hundreds, injured thousands, disrupted aid supplies and prompted 100,000 to flee.