According to the Foreign Ministry of Sudan, Nairobi has supported paramilitary groups there.
The World Health Organization estimates that the two-month conflict in Sudan has killed at least 866 people and injured thousands more. The government of Sudan has rejected Kenya’s leadership of a crisis committee tasked with mediating the situation.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which are at odds with the nation’s army, are being supported by Nairobi, according to a statement released by the Sudanese Foreign Ministry on Thursday.
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), composed of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and South Sudan, appointed Kenyan President William Ruto as the leader of a mediation delegation.
After being appointed, Ruto declared that his administration was dedicated to convening “face-to-face” talks between the warring factions in Khartoum in order to find a “lasting solution to the crisis.”
But the Sudanese military-led Sovereign Council said it would not accept Ruto’s leadership because “statements of senior Kenyan officials and the behavior of its government confirmed that it adopts the positions of Rapid Support Forces (RSF), shelters its members, and provides them with various types of support.”
According to the ministry, the government has informed the IGAD of its stance.
Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Kenya, Abraham Korir Sing’Oei, claimed that Khartoum had not officially communicated with his nation about the matter.
In his words, “the IGAD summit arrived at the appointment of Kenya’s president to lead the team and can only be vacated by the summit.”
General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the Sudanese Armed Forces, and General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, the commander of the RSF, will meet with the leaders of IGAD in the upcoming days in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
The meeting’s objectives include creating a secure route for the delivery of humanitarian aid to Darfur and Khartoum, two regions affected by war, as well as starting a comprehensive political process to end the conflict that started on April 15.
