{"id":20071367,"date":"2024-02-08T16:15:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T15:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/?p=20071367"},"modified":"2024-02-08T16:15:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T15:15:19","slug":"saf-rsf-agree-to-un-mediated-sudan-aid-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/saf-rsf-agree-to-un-mediated-sudan-aid-talks","title":{"rendered":"SAF-RSF \u2018agree to UN-mediated Sudan aid talks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said that the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), agreed to meet in Switzerland to discuss humanitarian access in Sudan, but added he is \u201cstill waiting for the actual meeting to happen\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a press conference in Geneva yesterday, the UN relief chief told reporters that the two warring parties in Sudan were invited to Switzerland to discuss coordination with humanitarian agencies on aid provision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI spoke to the two generals [\u2026] This time it\u2019s the UN who will be the mediator, to discuss precise access planning, to discuss movements and so forth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey both said, yes, that they would be happy to come [\u2026] into Switzerland. [\u2026] And I\u2019m still waiting for confirmation of when and where they will come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Griffiths told a reporter that the meeting was proposed \u201cto get them to follow up their commitments in the so-called Jeddah Declaration<\/a> [\u2026] to declare their commitment to international humanitarian law and helping us on access\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The press conference was held at the heels of the joint launch<\/a> of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Sudan Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan, and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan to aid 1.7 million Sudanese refugees<\/a> sheltering in neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Griffiths reiterated the OCHA-UNHCR appeal to raise $4.1 billion to provide humanitarian aid for almost 15 million Sudanese people in 2024 and urged countries not to forget the civilians suffering under the brunt of war in Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is a certain kind of cruelty about the world of humanitarian work, which is the competition in suffering and the competition between regions: I suffer more than you so I need to get more attention and more money,\u201d he exclaimed. On January 25, OCHA reported that half of Sudan’s population, about 25 million people, need humanitarian assistance and protection. Almost 11 million people in Sudan have been displaced by the ongoing war, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).<\/p>\n