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.