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Egypt Steps Up Push for Sudan Humanitarian Cease-Fire as RSF Holds Al-Fashir

Cairo’s push highlights a Quad plan stalled by domestic resistance despite mounting humanitarian need.

Overview

  • Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel-Aati reaffirmed support for Sudan’s territorial unity, rejected any partition moves, and urged a nationwide humanitarian truce that paves the way to a lasting cease-fire.
  • The Sept. 12 Quad plan proposes a three-month aid pause, a permanent cease-fire and a nine-month transition excluding current commanders, enjoys broad international backing, and faces public rejection from Brotherhood-linked figures and a stated refusal of foreign intervention by the army chief.
  • The Sumoud civil coalition warned Sudan faces an existential threat and urged the army and RSF to accept the humanitarian truce immediately and without preconditions.
  • RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo called the capture of al-Fashir a turning point, pledged to hand the city to police after securing it, and acknowledged violations by some fighters with promised investigations.
  • UN- and rights-based reporting details grave abuses by both sides, while estimates cite more than 150,000 deaths, severe food insecurity affecting roughly 25 million people, and displacement of about one-third of the population since April 2023.