A day before the end of the armistice, Riyadh and Washington urged the two parties to the conflict in Sudan to renew the agreement, while the Rapid Support Forces expressed their willingness to continue negotiations to reach the possibility of extending the armistice.
Saudi Arabia and the United States of America called on Sunday, the two parties to the conflict in Sudan, to extend the armistice, which is scheduled to end on Monday evening.
This came in a statement by the Saudi Foreign Ministry, a day before the end of a truce agreement sponsored by Riyadh and Washington in the city of Jeddah between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary "Quick Support" forces, which resulted in a 7-day truce.
On the evening of May 22, a new cease-fire agreement entered into force between the two parties for a period of one week, with talks continuing between them in Saudi Arabia, in an attempt to reach a permanent cessation of fighting and a peaceful solution to the conflict.
The statement stated, "Saudi Arabia and the United States, as facilitators of the short-term ceasefire agreement, call on the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support to continue the discussion to reach an agreement on its extension."
He stated that "the ceasefire will end on Monday at 9:45 Khartoum time (19:45 GMT)."
Saudi Arabia and the United States made it clear in the same statement that, "since the agreement is not complete, the extension will facilitate the delivery of the humanitarian aid needed by the Sudanese people."
For its part, Egypt urged on Saturday the need to reach a comprehensive cease-fire in Sudan and "not to allow external interference in the current crisis."
This came in a speech by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, at the summit of the African Peace and Security Council, in which a number of African heads of state and government participated via video conference technology, according to a statement by the Egyptian presidency.
On Saturday evening, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan expressed, in a statement, "its full readiness to continue talks during the last two days of the armistice under the auspices of Saudi-American mediation to discuss the possibility of reaching a renewal of the ceasefire agreement and humanitarian arrangements."
This announcement came a day after Saudi Arabia and the United States confirmed, in a joint statement, "an improvement in respect for the ceasefire between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces during Thursday, compared to the day before."
The Rapid Support Forces said, "The short-term ceasefire agreement obliged both parties to notify the Monitoring and Coordination Committee, no later than 9:45 local time (19:46 GMT) on the evening of May 27, of their willingness to agree to extend the agreement." .
Until 21:25 (GMT), there was no comment from the Sudanese army on the Rapid Support Forces announcement.
Since April 15, Sudan has been witnessing clashes between the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the "rapid support" forces led by Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo "Hamidti", which include the capital, Khartoum, and other cities in the north and west of the country, following differences between them, which resulted in a large number of victims. And "difficult humanitarian conditions," according to local and international observers.
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