Clashes continue today, Sunday, south of Khartoum while emissaries from his belligerents Sudan located to Saudi Arabia for negotiationswhich the international mediators hope will bring an end to the fighting that has been going on for three weeks.

The US-Saudi initiative is the first serious attempt to end the clashes between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which have turned parts of the Sudanese capital Khartoum into war zones and thwarted an internationally backed plan to transition to civilian rule after years of unrest and insurgency .

Fighting since mid-April has claimed hundreds of lives, injured thousands, cut off humanitarian aid and forced 100,000 people to flee abroad as refugees.

While the mediators are looking for a path to peace, both sides have made it clear that they will only discuss a humanitarian truce, not talks to end the war.

Confirming his forces’ involvement, RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, known as Hamedi, said he hoped the talks would achieve their stated goal of providing safe passage for civilians.

Hamedi has vowed to capture or kill army commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan while there are signs that both sides remain unwilling to make concessions to end the bloodshed.

Source: Reuters, APE-MPE.