Sudan’s Generals Balk at Talks as Thousands Flee Violence
- Officials look to African Union to help mediate end to crisis
- UN, US, UK and others have been evacuating their foreign staff
The leaders of Sudan’s army and a paramilitary group fighting for control of the North African nation resisted renewed diplomatic efforts to bring them to the negotiating table, as residents fled mounting violence and foreign governments accelerated efforts to repatriate their staff.
While officials continue to call on army leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Rapid Support Forces head Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo to end the hostilities, neither of them is ready to negotiate, according to two senior diplomats briefed on the matter. Foreign governments are increasingly looking to the African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, a regional bloc, to lead mediation efforts as they may be able to bring the pressure of countries in the region to bear on the two men, the diplomats said.