British and U.S. foreign ministers have called for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan. Fighting has been raging there for days between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). According to local sources, nearly a hundred civilians have been killed so far.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at the G7 summit in Japan that there is great international concern about the outbreak of violence in the third country of Africa.
“It poses a danger to civilians, to Sudan as a country and possibly even to the region.”He called on the warring parties to resume talks with his British counterpart James Cleverly about transferring power to a civilian government.
Ministers from G7 countries, a group of rich industrialized countries such as the US, Germany, Italy and the UK, will hold consultations in Japan for several days. They arrived on Sunday on a special train in Karuizawa, where after arrival there has already been talk about China and North Korea. The tense relationship with China is seen as an important agenda item at the summit.
