Baghdad-INA
An international conference on Sudan will open Monday in Paris, a year after the start of the war, amid hopes of reviving mobilization regarding a “forgotten crisis” with catastrophic humanitarian consequences and great geopolitical risks.
The meeting, which Germany in particular co-chairs, includes a political part in the morning, at the ministerial level, to try to find ways out of the conflict, and a humanitarian part whose goal is to mobilize donations and provide huge aid to this devastated country in the Horn of Africa. It also includes a meeting of about 40 figures from Sudanese civil society.
“The idea is to bring the crisis back to the top of the agenda,” said Christophe Lemoine, deputy spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry. “Sudan must not be allowed to become a forgotten crisis.”
The French Foreign Ministry stressed that “international attention is focused on Gaza and Ukraine more than on Sudan,” noting that the Sudanese crisis is “humanitarian but also geopolitical.”
She said, “The risk of the disintegration of Sudan and the destabilization of the entire Horn of Africa is very great.”
Paris is hosting the International Conference for Sudan exactly one year after the start of the war between the army led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces led by his former deputy, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti.
2024-04-16 01:30:13