As the generals are deadlocked in battle, a humanitarian disaster is building with refugees fleeing for neighbouring countries, Prospects for a humanitarian ceasefire in Sudan have improved since the opening of talks between representatives of the warring factions open in Jeddah on 6 May, according to United States Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. To reporters in Washington DC, she sketched out a process in which a declaration of a temporary ceasefire and agreement on humanitarian principles could provide a platform for expanded talks for longer-term truce and resumption of negotiations for the transition to civil rule.
Touadéra is using Russian guns and virtual money to stay in power while western policies towards him harden, Regaining the support of European and multilateral agencies while relying on backing from Russia s Wagner Group is testing President Faustin Archange Touadéra s ingenuity. His shaky regime is one of the hardest hit in Africa by the geopolitical fallout from Moscow s war on Ukraine.
The government is running out of cash – paying the Russians is proving tricky, EU and French aid has stopped, and the IMF and World Bank are sceptical, Amid suspicions that Russia is trying to engineer an alliance between its friends in Bangui and leaders of the military junta in Sudan, the problems in President Faustin Archange Touadéra s government are converging. The resignation of Prime Minister Henri-Marie Dondra on 2 February comes at a bad time and presages further crises.