UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council is discussing a British-drafted resolution that demands Sudan\u2019s warring parties cease hostilities and calls on them to allow safe, rapid and unhindered deliveries of aid across front lines and borders. War erupted in April 2023 from a power struggle between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ahead of a planned transition to civilian rule, and triggered the world\u2019s largest displacement crisis. It has produced waves of ethnically driven violence blamed largely on the RSF. The RSF has denied harming civilians in Sudan and attributed the activity to rogue actors. In the first UN sanctions imposed during the current conflict, a Security Council committee designated two RSF generals last week.
\n\u201cNineteen months in to the war, both sides are committing egregious human rights violations, including the widespread rape of women and girls,\u201d Britain\u2019s UN ambassador, Barbara Woodward, told reporters at the start of this month as Britain assumed the Security Council\u2019s presidency for November.
\n\u201cMore than half the Sudanese population are experiencing severe food insecurity,\u201d she said. \u201cDespite this, the SAF and the RSF remain focussed on fighting each other and not the famine and suffering facing their country.\u201d
\nBritain wanted to put the draft resolution to a vote as quickly as possible, diplomats said. To be adopted, a resolution needs at least nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the US, France, Britain, Russia or China.<\/p>\n
AID ACROSS BORDERS<\/strong><\/p>\n The UN says nearly 25 million people \u2014 half of Sudan\u2019s population \u2014 need aid as famine has taken hold in displacement camps and 11 million people have fled their homes. Nearly 3 million of those people have left for other countries. UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council is discussing a British-drafted resolution that demands Sudan\u2019s warring parties cease hostilities and calls on them to allow safe, rapid and unhindered deliveries of aid across front lines and borders. War erupted in April 2023 from a power struggle between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":72897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72899,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72886\/revisions\/72899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBritain\u2019s draft text \u201cdemands that the Rapid Support Forces immediately halt its offensives\u201d throughout Sudan, \u201cand demands that the warring parties immediately cease hostilities.\u201d
\nIt also \u201ccalls on the parties to the conflict to allow and facilitate the full, safe, rapid, and unhindered crossline and cross-border humanitarian access into and throughout Sudan.\u201d The draft also calls for the Adre border crossing with Chad to remain open for aid deliveries \u201cand stresses the need to sustain humanitarian access through all border crossings, while humanitarian needs persist, and without impediments.\u201d
\nA three-month approval given by Sudanese authorities for the UN and aid groups to use the Adre border crossing to reach Darfur is due to expire in mid-November. The Security Council has adopted two previous resolutions on Sudan: in March it called for an immediate cessation of hostilities for the holy month of Ramadan, then in June it specifically demanded a halt to a siege of a city of 1.8 million people in Sudan\u2019s North Darfur region by the RSF.
\nBoth resolutions \u2014 adopted with 14 votes in favor and a Russian abstention \u2014 also called for full, rapid, safe and unhindered humanitarian access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"