Representatives of the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces return to negotiating table in Jeddah. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council, waves to a crowd during a military-backed tribe's rally [File: Mahmoud Hjaj/AP Photo] Sudan’s warring parties have resumed negotiations in Saudi Arabia aimed at ending the war that has killed more than 9,000 people and displaced some 5.6 million since April. The deadly war between forces loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who commands the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has devastated the country. The United States and Saudi Arabia brokered the mediation efforts, which have had limited effect, yielding brief truces that were systematically violated. The warring sides announced on October 25 that they had accepted an invitation to resume negotiations. The talks are taking place “in partnership” with representatives of the African Union and the East African bloc Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), led by close US partner Kenya, according to Riyadh. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia welcomes the resumption of talks” between the warring sides, the host country said in a statement. The statement called on negotiators to abide by an earlier agreement announced on May 11 to protect civilians, as well as a short-term ceasefire agreement signed on May 20. “The Kingdom affirms its keenness on unity of ranks … to stop the bloodshed and alleviate the suffering of the Sudanese people,” the statement said. © 2023 Al Jazeera Media Network

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Gregorio Borgia/AP JUBA, South Sudan — Pope Francis made a final appeal for peace in South Sudan on Sunday President Salva Kiir, his longtime rival Riek Machar and other opposition groups signed a peace agreement "We need a permanent peace now and I hope these prayers would yield to lasting peace." In a bid to spur the process along, Francis was joined on the novel ecumenical peace mission by the Archbishop Empowerment for Progress Organization, said the visit of the three leaders was an important push to the peace

The summit seeks to find an amicable peaceful solution to the raging conflict in Sudan. Sudan Tribune Thursday that the event would address two important issues within the context of Sudan’s peace listen to a full briefing from the mediation team and officials from Saudi Arabia on the process of the peace the sense that it presents an opportunity for the leaders to address fundamental matters relating to peace

Wednesday, May 26, 2021, Sudan’s transitional government and the main rebel group kicked off a new round of peace File) CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s transitional government and the main rebel group kicked off a new round of peace Sudan’s transitional government has been engaging in peace talks with rebel groups over the past two In 2020, Sudan’s transitional authorities and another rebel alliance signed a peace deal.

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and campaigners guilty of organising and taking part in an unauthorised assembly over their role in a peaceful Although Hong Kong’s mini-constitution guarantees the right to peaceful assembly, Woodcock added, “restrictions that freedom of assembly is a constitutional right in Hong Kong and noted that police had approved the peaceful

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foot in the South, the leaders vowed to negotiate a treaty to replace a truce that has kept an uneasy peace A peace treaty has been one of the incentives North Korea has demanded in return for dismantling its The event, at the Peace House, a conference building on the South Korean side of Panmunjom, was closely But by agreeing to pursue a peace deal this year, Mr. Moon joked back: “Now I can sleep in peace.”

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