The President of Kenya, William Ruto has once again lambasted the two warring Sudanese generals, calling on them to stop the fighting that has entered its second month and embrace peace.
Africa Today News, New York reports that fierce battles in the capital Khartoum and its sister cities of Bahri and Omdurman have raged despite Saudi and US-brokered talks between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Jeddah, aimed at securing humanitarian access and a ceasefire.
‘These generals are bombing everything, roads, hospitals, bridges, and destroying the airport using military hardware bought with African money. We need to tell those generals to stop the nonsense,’ President Ruto said during the Pan-African Parliament Summit in South Africa on Thursday.
The Kenyan leader, who has been tasked by a regional bloc, Igad, together with other heads, to help in reconciling Sudan’s rival sides, said military capacity was for battling criminals and terrorists and not for fighting children and women.
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Mr. Ruto, however, blamed African states for lacking the capacity to stop the war in Sudan “because our own peace and security is funded by others”.
Nearly 1,000 people have been killed and more than a million displaced in Sudan since battles between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who leads a paramilitary force, erupted in April.
The unrest has caused about 200,000 to flee into nearby countries and those still in Khartoum are struggling to survive.
In another report, the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) has revealed that about 1,730 Nigerians have so far returned from Sudan, with the latest flight from Port Sudan with 146 evacuees aboard Tarco Airline on Tuesday.
Mr Abdur-Rahman Balogun who is the Head, Media, Public Relations and Protocols Unit, NiDCOM on Tuesday revealed that the flight landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Anuja, at about 10:05am.
Meanwhile, NiDCOM took to its official Twitter handle, on Monday to reveal that 129 nationals, also aboard Tarco Airline, landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, at 9:25am.