General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, leader of Sudan’s armed forces, has received firm guarantees that the United States is not pushing any new scheme to dismantle the country’s military.
The clarification came Thursday during talks in Port Sudan with Norway’s Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Envoy to Sudan, Andreas Kravik.
Rumours Put to Rest
Last week, al-Burhan angrily rejected reports that Washington was backing a proposal to dissolve the Sudanese army. Kravik dismissed the claims as “completely unfounded,” stressing that the only active peace plan remains the one presented in September by the US-Saudi-Egypt-UAE coalition.
The Standing Peace Framework
That agreement calls for:
- An immediate three-month humanitarian ceasefire
- A permanent end to fighting
- The return of civilian-led government
Kravik urged both sides — the regular army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) — to stop the speculation and start implementing the existing roadmap.
A Country on the Brink
More than two years of war between the army and RSF have killed at least 40,000 people and forced over 12 million from their homes, creating one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters.
Diplomats warn that without an urgent truce, Sudan risks total collapse.
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