{"id":20123392,"date":"2025-11-25T16:06:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/?p=20123392"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:07:06","slug":"rsf-declares-three-month-truce-calls-on-saf-to-join","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/rsf-declares-three-month-truce-calls-on-saf-to-join","title":{"rendered":"RSF declares three-month truce, calls on SAF to join"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have announced their agreement to a three-month humanitarian truce, saying they will halt fighting to allow aid to reach civilians. RSF commander Lt Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti) said in a filmed announcement on Monday that the ceasefire is \u201ca national responsibility\u201d and comes in response to mediation efforts \u201cled by US President Donald Trump, the Quartet, the African Union and IGAD.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hemedti pledged to protect aid workers, secure warehouses and guarantee food and medical supplies \u201cto all areas,\u201d offering\u00a0full cooperation<\/a>\u00a0with the UN. He also agreed to a monitoring mechanism supervised by the\u00a0Quartet<\/a>, the African Union, and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, stressing that any RSF member proven to have\u00a0committed violations<\/a>\u00a0\u201cwill not escape accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He called for an inclusive peace process that excludes what he described as the Islamic Movement and urged the international community to support the truce and provide\u00a0urgent humanitarian relief<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RSF\u2019s announcement of a humanitarian truce comes against the backdrop of serious allegations of atrocities. When the group seized\u00a0Bara in North Kordofan<\/a>\u00a0in October 2025, monitors reported<\/a> killings, abductions, assaults and looting, describing the abuses as \u201cwar crimes and crimes against humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Satellite evidence<\/a>\u00a0from a report by the Yale School of Public Health\u2019s Humanitarian Research Lab showed that, in the same month, the RSF were disposing of bodies in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, near hospitals and in residential areas where mass killings had previously been reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These findings point to a pattern of violations that continues to overshadow the RSF\u2019s ceasefire pledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El Burhan criticism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesperson from the National Umma Party welcomed the unilateral ceasefire in a statement and urged the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) to accept it, saying it could open\u00a0safe corridors<\/a>\u00a0and pave the way for peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement followed sharp criticism of Head of the Sovereignty Council and Commander-in-Chief of the SAF, Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, after he\u00a0attacked the Quartet<\/a>\u00a0and the US\u2019s Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs Massad Boulos, on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alaa Nugud, a member of the Sudan Founding Alliance (Tasees) told Radio Dabanga yesterday, that El Burhan\u2019s remarks expose \u201cthe army\u2019s loyalty to the Islamic Movement,\u201d accusing him of blocking peace to buy time for Islamist forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sumoud<\/a>\u00a0(meaning resilience in Arabic) headed by former Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok also rejected El Burhan\u2019s stance, saying he is abandoning the peace process and risking Sudan\u2019s unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It reaffirmed support for the Quartet\u2019s roadmap, arguing that it offers \u201cthe best opportunity to end the war and build a single, professional army.\u201d Sumoud said the war, not the Quartet, is what has dismantled Sudan, accusing El Burhan of prolonging fighting \u201cto secure his power.\u201d<\/p>\n