Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, at war with the regular army for more than two years, announced on Thursday that they had agreed to a proposal for a humanitarian truce put forward by mediators.
The announcement follows the paramilitaries’ capture of the major city of El-Fasher, which dislodged the army from its last stronghold in the vast western Darfur region.
“In response to the aspirations and interests of the Sudanese people, the Rapid Support Forces affirms its agreement to enter into the humanitarian truce proposed by the Quad countries,” the RSF said in a statement, referring to the United States, Egypt, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
The military-aligned government did not immediately comment on the RSF’s announcement.
Earlier in the day, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had said his forces were still “striving for the defeat of the enemy”.