Iran urges international community to end Sudan conflict, send humanitarian aid
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei says the international community must put an end to the conflict in Sudan and dispatch humanitarian aid to the African country.
In a statement on Sunday, Baghaei condemned Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) drone attack on a military air base and other facilities in the vicinity of Port Sudan Airport earlier in the day.
A spokesman for the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), Nabil Abdullah, said in a statement that the RSF “targeted Osman Digna Air Base, a goods warehouse and some civilian facilities” with drones, in the first attack in the eastern city.
Baghaei expressed concern over continued attacks on civilian urban facilities such as power plants, hospitals, water treatment plants, and civilian airports.
He called for an end to the attacks on civilians in Sudan and warned against the occurrence of a major disaster of displacement and hunger in the country.
Baghaei urged the international community, global organizations, and institutions to fulfill their duty to stop the conflict and dispatch humanitarian aid to the people of Sudan.
Late in March, the Sudanese army claimed to have pushed Rapid Support Forces fighters out of the capital Khartoum, after nearly two years of fighting over the city.
Sudan’s army earlier recaptured the presidential palace in Khartoum and went on to seize control of the main headquarters of the country’s central bank from the RSF.
Hours after the military walked into the presidential palace, the RSF announced a “military alliance” with the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North, led by Abdelaziz al-Hilu – a group controlling large swaths of South Kordofan and parts of Blue Nile state near the Ethiopian border.
The ongoing war in Sudan has claimed tens of thousands of lives, displaced more than 12 million, and caused the “biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded”, according to the International Rescue Committee.
