Talks to end the fighting in Sudan are due to continue in Switzerland.

The US insisted that it would press ahead with convening the talks – even without the Sudanese govt which hasn’t confirmed whether
or not it would send a delegation.

The US Special Envoy for Sudan, Tom Perriello, said this round of negotiations could last up to ten days.

The US last month invited Sudan’s warring sides to ceasefire talks, co-hosted with Saudi Arabia and the Swiss, more than a year after fighting broke out between the regular army led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

The RSF, commanded by General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, swiftly accepted the US invitation.

Earlier talks had taken place in Saudi Arabia between a Sudanese delegation and US mediators on conditions for the government’s participation.

They ended “without agreement”, Sudan’s Minerals Minister Mohammed Abu Namo, the head of the delegation, said.

The Sudanese government said late that “more discussions” were needed to join the upcoming ceasefire negotiations.

Sudan plunged into conflict in April 2023 when long-simmering tensions between its military and paramilitary leaders broke out in the capital, Khartoum, and spread to other regions including Darfur.

The UN estimates that more than 14,000 people have been killed and at least 33,000 others injured.

Al Jazeera,