Former senior UN diplomat blames global body for failing to prevent the conflict in Sudan that has left more than 550 people dead and 3,500 injured
People carry suitcases in the Sudanese town of Wadi Halfa bordering Egypt on May 4, 2023. / Photo: AFP
Jamal Benomar, who worked at the UN for 25 years, says the Security Council should have intervened to prevent the clash between the top leadership of the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces .“The international community should have acted very early. I remember from my days in the UN, when I begged the Security Council in early 2014 to take action against the spoilers [of peaceful transition], but they were very reluctant,” said Benomar.
“This issue in Sudan has taken the UN by surprise,” Guterres said on Wednesday at the UN office in Kenya’s capital Nairobi. “We were hopeful that negotiations will be successful. We were not expecting this to happen,” he added.“We failed to avoid it to happen. I don’t think there was anything that we should have done [that we did not do] to stop it [from happening]. We were convinced that this was not going to happen.
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