UN to meet Sudan’s warring parties in Geneva

RIYADH: United Nations officials are to meet with Sudan’s warring parties in Geneva, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told Saudi broadcaster Al Arabiya in Riyadh on Thursday, without disclosing a date for the discussions.

“We will be having in Geneva meetings with both sides,” Guterres said in the televised interview, addressing the war in Sudan, which has seen the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces locked in conflict with Sudan’s army since April 2023.

The war prompted global outcry in October, as reports of mass atrocities emerged after the RSF seized the city of El-Fasher, the army’s last stronghold in the western Darfur region, following a bitter 18-month siege.