The UN aid chief has stated that ending the fighting in Sudan will be difficult because the warring parties want to “keep it going.”
Martin Griffiths said after visiting the Red Sea port of Port Sudan.
The speed with which the crisis was “going viral,” he said, was “really, really, deeply concerning.”
“And the way in which all these efforts to achieve national ceasefires have all presumably stumbled over the sort of rigid existential fact that those at war are keen to continue,” he said.
He stated that he had requested that rival generals fighting for control meet with him face-to-face to discuss the urgent delivery of humanitarian aid.
He stated that the two opposing parties spoke of their commitment to humanitarian principles, but there did not appear to be a desire to end the war.
A new seven-day ceasefire is set to begin, but previous ceasefires have failed.
Mr. Griffiths stated that he had heard stories of traumatic atrocities that he believed would lead to a generational problem with reconciliation.
