UN on Sudan conflict: “there cannot be a military solution to this war”

Ramtane Lamamra, the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for Sudan recently travelled to Sudan, where he met senior figures of the Government, including General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Chairman of the Transitional Sovereign Council of Sudan and the Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces. Lamamra also visited Ethiopia, where he talked to a delegation from the Rapid Support Forces in the capital, Addis Ababa. Speaking after his trip he stated that: “all actors should put the interests of the Sudanese people first and foremost and realize that there cannot be a military solution for this war. This is the lesson of history in Sudan and elsewhere.” Sudan’s civil war, which began in April 2023, continues to inflict misery on the country’s population, fueling a massive humanitarian disaster and driving over 12 million people from their homes.