Sudan Army Skips Swiss Peace Talks, Dashing Cease-Fire Hopes
- US-brokered talks also include UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
- Conflict in Sudan world’s biggest displacement crisis, UN says
Members of a 'joint security cell' affiliated with Sudan's army, in Gedaref city.
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The absence of Sudan’s military from US-brokered talks that began Wednesday is casting a pall on already-fraught efforts to end the north African nation’s ruinous civil war.
The talks for now only include the Rapid Support Forces militia as well as regional and international players. They are still being held in Switzerland, a spokesperson of the US Mission to the United Nations in Geneva said.